A towering mud cloud brought on havoc in Arizona on Monday, grounding flights and leaving 1000’s with out energy.
The slow-moving cloud — referred to as a haboob — hit components of Phoenix and Arizona Metropolis, 60 miles to the southeast, late Monday afternoon, at one level leaving 15,000 vitality clients at midnight. The quantity nonetheless with out energy Tuesday morning was greater than 5,000 in accordance with Poweroutage.us, largely in Maricopa County.
Movies posted to social media confirmed complete neighborhoods engulfed in darkness because the mud storm rolled by. One video shot from a passing airplane confirmed the sheer prolong of the cloud, stretching for miles into the space.
