Friday, March 25, 2011

Sandstorm!


This short video is just a small portion of what is happening RIGHT NOW as I am typing. Thank God, that my wife and I were home. I looked out my 10th story apartment and saw the sandstorm coming just like what you see here. The roaring wind is shaking the windows and doors and sand is getting in the rooms. I can't see the building across the street anymore. It's there...just can't see it. There is a fine, moon-dust like sand that can blow in from any small opening or between the sliding doors or windows. You can smell and taste it. I can rake my finger on any surface in the house now and there is this "sand dust". It's a little hazy as I view my computer monitor. I'm sure our cars will be covered in sand by tomorrow. The storm has been going on now for hours and I don't know when it will let up. I have never seen anything like this. That's the Kuwait update. Please remember my wife in prayer. She has asthma and this is a monster sand storm.

21 comments:

  1. BTW, that's not my voice on the video. Since I am from Texas, I have no Indian accent. Trust me.

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  2. That is really scarey looking!
    My computer kicks me off the internet when I try to open a video so I cannot watch BUT the picture is bad enough! Is it effecting Mary already? Maybe you can get a spray bottle of water to weigh what dust may get in the room.

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  3. Oh, my! That's awful. I hope Mrs. Eddings does all right in that! I will pray for you all over there.

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  4. So far she is doing fine. And the wind has now died down. The sand is still blinding and it is starting to descend on everything below. All cars parked outside will be a tan, sandy topping tomorrow.

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  5. It's weird. The sand storms in the Texas Panhandle where I grew up looked like giant rollers of dust instead of huge dust monsters. I would be coated with dust by the time I walked to class when I attended Texas Tech in Lubbock. The street lights would come on in the middle of the afternoon during really bad storms but they were nothing like this.

    My mom told me my grandfather tacked wet sheets over and around the windows to catch the dust especially when she and my uncle were very small. Use wet towels around the edges of the glass if you don't have enough sheets.

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  6. Yikes! I will pray for your wife with all of that dust in the air.

    Is it me, or does Kuwait appear artificially "perfect" (the terrifying storm notwithstanding)? the buildings are almost too square or something.

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  7. That's quite a storm. Praying for you both.

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  8. Spoke too soon...it's now 10:28 P.M. and the wind is kicking up again.

    ...and THEOparadox, most of the buildings here are constructed by hand, from sand. It's a long story (so to speak) but, I have seen them build entire 15 and 16 story buildings with homemade scaffolding.

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  9. ...and many thanks to all for your prayers and concern.

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  10. I haven't seen anything like that since I lived on the East Mesa in Las Cruces, NM. We have wind in Montana but no sand storms!

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  11. I haven't seen anything like that since I was in the Mojave Desert. There the sand can blow like sandpaper. Praying for you guys.

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  12. I saw a couple of little sand storms in Saudi Arabia, but nothing like that. I liked to think that maybe we (the US Marines) were the biggest sand storm around... OOH-RAH! I pray you all get some clean air soon.

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  13. This is when my space helmet comes in handy.

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  14. It's clear. The high today will be 74 the low tonight - 57. Everything, inside and outside is covered in sand. My computer is sluggish today and so am I.

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  15. Praise God that it's over. Thanks for the update.

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  16. Kuwait-a-minute, Eddie. Is that what you have to endure? Yikes!I have seen dust storms but never anything like this. I am a wimp...

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  17. And I complain about snow. Wow! Glad you and Mrs made it thru. Do you have to shovel that stuff?

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