Wild Video caused a car accident, closed major highways, and left the entire Dallas metropolitan area trapped in an apocalyptic red fog this week, capturing a massive sandstorm known as “Haboob.”
Eerie footage shot on Monday Fire Chief Justin Powell in Dexter, New Mexico, showed the aftermath of five-car piles caused by drivers who were clearly blinded by the swirling sand that whipped around emergency workers in an attempt to clean the road.
When Haboob, a particularly severe type of sandstorm caused by thunderstorms, passed through New Mexico and West Texas, the National Weather Service issued a harsh weather warning for counties along the border in the southern United States.
Authorities warned of gusts of winds up to 80 mph in some areas as authorities closed some I-10 and I-25, dropping visibility around El Paso International Airport to a quarter mile.
Fox 4 posted when dust settled in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday Overhead photos The city centre, wrapped in the dirty haze of Haboob, is an Arabic term literally meaning “blowing.”
“In Tarrant County, the dust is thicker. I've never seen any more bad dust here,” he wrote to X.
X user Rob Bartley posted a photo of a Surreal pink yellow clouds Above the park, “The sand from New Mexico and West Texas is here. Why? Because I washed my truck on Sunday.”
Haboobs are located wide and thousands of feet tall. They are most common in the Southwest. There, the winds can pick up the dust from the loose desert and carry it to the area.
Haboobs are particularly dangerous for people with breathing conditions and highway drivers. They often have no way out of the storm before they come nearer on the horizon.
“Dust that suffocates when blinded can rapidly reduce visibility and cause accidents that can involve chain collisions, creating large-scale pile-ups,” the National Weather Service says.
