Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Hurricane are coming, hold tight

Sandstorm In Middle East May Be Largest In Modern History (PHOTO FROM SPACE):
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley
First Posted: 07- 6-09 02:56 PM | Updated: 07- 6-09 03:07 PM

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Check out the image:

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The image includes international borders, with Syria to the west, Iran to the east, and Saudi Arabia to the southwest, to give a sense of the storm's location and size.

In what is said to be the worst in recent memory, a massive week-long sandstorm descended on Iraq last week, sending hundreds of people to the hospital and forcing Vice President Joe Biden to cancel his plan to visit Kurdistan. From Reuters:

Many Baghdad shops stayed shut on Sunday, while police wearing masks directed thin streams of traffic through eerily misty streets. Hospital emergency rooms were packed with people"

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous3:08 AM

    Once were two angels bound at a Rome in the lands of Bush- they were, once was, and will be! It will be that they will walk the lands. They are now free- the world will never be the same! Our sun is shut down- the brightness is its death woes and the darkness that is to befall the guilty lands will be accordinglY!

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