January 28, 2011 by findingbackroads

Dubai sandstorm January 28, 2011

We were out today at the Dubai Japanese School to attend their Sports Day program when a huge sandstorm so strong, refusing to stop halted all activities and had us running back into the building!

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19320210&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Sandstorm in Dubai January 28, 2011 from Sandier Pastures on Vimeo.

Another video:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19291137&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Dubai Sandstorm – January 28, 2011 from Sandier Pastures on Vimeo.

This is the first major sandstorm we’ve seen since we came here in 2007. It’s scary and sand hurts!

16 Comments

Maribeth January 28, 2011 at 6:57 pm

That is amazing! Imagine how people get lost and die in those storms in the dessert!

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1. Grace January 29, 2011 at 11:25 am
  
  Have you seen the movie Prince of Persia? I thought we’d get a sandstorm like that yesterday! It was amazing as well as scary!
  
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Seb@Cozy Dog Beds January 28, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Wow, that looks incredible, very scary.

Great Fleece Dog Beds

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Alex@Jocuri January 29, 2011 at 12:41 am

Hmm that is awful, but you can see it as a good abrasive treatment (I hope that how they’re called, I don’t really know the female cosmetics terminology) :)).

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Sam January 29, 2011 at 1:08 am

I’ve never experienced a sand storm before. It has to hurt and make driving near impossible? It would really be tough for kids with allergies or asthma.

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1. Grace January 29, 2011 at 11:24 am
  
  Yes, I can’t imagine living here and being asthmatic but I think non asthma children will also get sick due to yesterday’s dusty weather!
  
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PorkStar January 30, 2011 at 11:08 am

Wow, crazy stuff. I saw once on a video a big wall cloud of sand sweeping over somewhere. Pretty scary.

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1. Grace January 30, 2011 at 12:37 pm
  
  Last Friday was the scariest sandstorm I’ve experienced here in the UAE.
  
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Sasha January 30, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Tremendously scary how powerful mother nature can be. Awesome at the same time.

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Mia January 31, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Does this happen often? It’s challenging to adapt to such a weather.

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1. Grace January 31, 2011 at 3:02 pm
  
  Oh no, it doesn?t! Please don?t be scared?
  Dubai is fine, great weather, rainless, cloudless 330 days in a year on the average!
  
  You?ll get affected most by these sandstorms when they do come, when you?re in an open field, otherwise, you might be just at home or inside the office and in the city with buildings, you won?t even know a sandstorm is going on!
  
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Gin February 2, 2011 at 9:45 am

what were they trying to do with the tarp? Now the men headdresses and women’s headcover make sense… keep the sand from moving down collars and into clothing.

Still…looks very interesting to experience it.

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oobadooba February 5, 2011 at 1:20 am

Yeah it was INSTENSE, but enjoyable, I heard they closed some of the airports, pretty crazy….

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Arafat February 5, 2011 at 1:21 am

SAAANDSTORM

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real estate egypt February 5, 2011 at 3:49 am

amazing ….. i wanna ask how people get lost and die

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Kayla February 9, 2011 at 4:54 am

I have NEVER seen a sand storm before! I mean of course in movies, but that’s movies O.o

Glad you got inside though!

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