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Brave Cameraman Films a Massive Dust Storm from Within

by Robert Quigley | 4:31 pm, September 22nd, 2010

National Geographic cameraman Bob Poole was in Mali filming elephants when he encountered much bigger game in the form of a massive dust storm. The dust storm blocked out the sun for more than four hours, making the world within darker than night at its height, then bathed in freakish red light on its way out. Poole: “It seems like we’ve been transported to Mars.” He’s not exaggerating.

(National Geographic via PetaPixel)

  • http://www.bradleyfarless.com/ BradleyF81

    I lived through something like this in the deserts of Iraq in 2003. The dust rolled in and the light took on a red hue, then it became as dark as night. Then, as if that weren’t bad enough, it started to rain, but with all that dust in the air, the raindrops were mud by the time they hit us, leaving us coated in red. We did our best to keep our rifles covered, but some people weren’t that bright and spent quite a bit of time cleaning theirs up afterwards.


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