A dust storm overtakes Lubbock, Texas
posted by jonson on May 26, 2007 - 55 comments

China is drying up and blowing to California. Right now, tonight. Sorry, no 2008 Beijing Olympics, east Asia n'exist plus. Here's satellite pix of some of the 20 Chinese megastorms that have already occurred this baby century from NASA and NOAA and NASA again and a Google search returning zillions of other links, for fellow regressives who wouldn't ordinarily hang out at CommonDreams.org. (initial link from robotwisdom)
posted by jfuller on Jan 26, 2003 - 21 comments

Call off your Mars vacation. A giant dust storm, brewing since June, has engulfed the entire planet.
posted by kittyloop on Oct 11, 2001 - 10 comments