RAW: Dust storm hits Phoenix homes

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A thick dust wall spotted in San Tan Valley July 5.
Photographer: Monica Kennedy

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Posted: 07/06/2011

Home video from Phoenix shows how quickly a massive dust wall moved through that city on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of clips have been uploaded to sites like YouTube.com and Vimeo.com since the storms hit just before sunset.

Here's the view from the suburb of Scottsdale, taken frame by frame:

Haboob (Sand Storm Scottsdale AZ 2011) TIMELAPSE from Steven Esparza on Vimeo.

This next video from the Southeast part of town shows the dust wall turn the entire sky as black as night ... even when the sun is still shinning.

Warning: The below video does contain adult language.

Here is the view from Gilbert, an eastern suburb of Phoenix:

This is another view of the dust wall from Scottsdale:

Here's the aftermath in central Phoenix:

Here's the view from the eastern suburb of Mesa:

This is an incredible view from Phoenix:

Here's the vantage point south of Phoenix, as the storm rolled in:

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