When I was leaving work last night, I was thinking about how to best share my impressions of Atlanta and Toronto with you guys. I left the building and was walking to my car seeing nothing but bright sun, a gorgeous blue sky, and a few tiny white clouds. Then a gust of wind hit me, I turned around and I was looking at a dark wall of dust. For a few seconds I kind of just stared at it not really believing what I was seeing. I’ve been in a Texas dust storm before, but I’ve never seen one rolling in. It was nuts! So, I grabbed my cell phone and started snapping a few pictures and taking a few videos. Have you ever seen dust storm pictures? Kind of crazy, right? If you scroll down, you can also see the dust storm videos I posted on YouTube. I felt like I was in an apocalypse-type movie as the dust storm quickly rolled in over the building. Where there was nothing but clear, fresh air and blue skies minutes before, out of a sudden you couldn’t see further than maybe 20 meters. People stopped driving because the visibility was so bad thanks to this Texas dust storm. I just hung out in my car waiting for the air to clear a little bit before driving home. Insane, I tell you! And doesn’t this fit in perfectly with my Only in Texas series? 
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Crazy!! I have been in mini ones, but not one like that. Scary, but pretty cool that you got some shots of it. Thanks for sharing!
Glad to share
It really was nuts and I wasn’t sure if it was “just” a crazy dust storm or if there was a tornado hiding in there somewhere…
Hi Sabrina,
absolutely amazing, those pics – and, of course, the dust storm itself. We heard about that in the news down here. And there was an article on the “Welt online”. Btw, they called Lubbock “Städtchen”, which made me send them an email to teel then it’s not a small town. They, as a quality newspaper, should know better.
Best regards from Karnes City, dust storm free,
Pit
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Glad you corrected them
Lubbock is the biggest town here in Northwest Texas – only much smaller town between here and Dallas to the east, Albuquerque to the west, Denver to the North, and…. Mexico to the South 
That a 5-6 hour radius around this little Staedchen…
Crazy is right! Looks like the air during wild fires in So. California. How often do these happen?
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Hmm… good question. Maybe 1-2 a year. But usually they’re not this huge! There’s dust everywhere and it kind of gets dark, but I’ve never seen one as big as this week.
Wow to the pics and vids. I’ve only seen one such storm in southern New Mexico and it was intense. You don’t want to be out on the highway driving 70 mph and get caught in one.
Cheers.
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Thanks! I can only imagine how scary that would be! I was glad that I was in my parked car and close to a building.
Great pics! The storm was so big that it was on the news in Germany!
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Thanks! Crazy about the German news, right?
That is crazy!
I know! I thought the world was coming to an end there for a second. Or that there was a tornado hiding in there somewhere.
That is wild. Great photos. And I thought it was dusty here in Calgary!
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Luckily it’s only this dusty here very rarely
It was nuts!
Insane! Your photos and videos look like scenes from an apocalyptic movie or something!
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That’s exactly how I felt – like I had landed in some weird apocalyptic movie! Crazy!
Wow, I had no idea dust storms were this big. This is just crazy. Amazing you caught it on camera!
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Me neither! I’ve been in smaller ones here before, but I never saw them rolling in. Catching in on camera was the best part about this storm
Yeesh, this looks awful! There was a mini little dust storm in Albuquerque when we were there (okay, mostly really high wind and dirt on the ground getting kicked up), and it was not pleasant. You really captured this one well, though! I much prefer to observe it through photos/video. =P
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Thanks
Yes, even know looking at the pics and videos is more fun than remembering the few minutes where I was undecided between taking pictures and staying in my car and hiding in the basement because I wasn’t sure of there was a tornado hiding in the dark… Nuts, I tell you!