Sand Storm! - Al Asad, Iraq - 26 April 2005

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:19 am

Sand Storm! - Al Asad, Iraq - 26 April 2005 - Pictures of the Week

Do you remember the movie, the Mummy, no special effects here... This is REAL...

Sand Storm, 26 April 2005. Al Asad, IRAQ

It's a wall of sand traveling at 60 mph.

6 More Pics here: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/04/s ... _al_a.html

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:31 am

Wow....do they get any warning about these sand storms? Like winds are high enough to produce them or anything?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sun May 01, 2005 9:04 am

man. gives you an appreciation of where the concept of a wrathful god came from.

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Sun May 01, 2005 11:01 am

Wow - I have not heard from a friend of mine just North of Bagdad - Was that near there? Sometimes they get put in black out - We have lost only 8 soilders..(way to many) from Iowa..But 3 have been from the 224th..where he is from..

It gives my kids a sense of what war is when I show them how they live there - This just topped it off...When our friend was home - he told the kids of how he had his laptop and X-Box and that they ate well..My kids came to beleive it wasn't so bad there - this brought them back to the realization that it is not a picnic there.....

Bless Our Soilders..

john8pies · Post by **john8pies** » Sun May 01, 2005 11:10 am

That is absolutely awesome and in some ways frightens me even more than the Tsunami.