Lubbock gets dusted

[Let'sgoflying!]

West Texas haboob:
I flew into lbb once when a milder one had just blown in; markedly lacking in fun.

 

[maddog52]

Raced a dust storm back to Reese AFB one afternoon. Saw it cover KLBB and the town. Really creepy. It actually rained mud a few times during the year I was there. Don't miss that at all.

 

[kimberlyanne546]

Wow, that looks very un-fun. In California, as one POA pilot pointed out to me recently, I can AVOID major problems such as earthquakes if I'm airborne in a little airplane! I won't even feel the ground shake.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

I landed shortly after this quake, in the darkness. It is hard to drive from the mind those images of 2 foot crevasses in the runway (blame Hollywood for that) as you are flaring. There was no one on the radio, and emergency vehicle lights at the fbo - we'd heard about the quake via another a/c at a distant airport just a few mins earlier. It turned out to be no problem

 

[Fearless Tower]

Check out what that storm did to the FEDEX 3-holer at the end of this clip:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/18/national/main20121821.shtml

 

[gprellwitz]

Check out what that storm did to the FEDEX 3-holer at the end of this clip:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/18/national/main20121821.shtml

The ad I saw before the story was even more interesting. An airliner with apparently a nose gear failure landing with the nose in the bed of a speeding pickup truck. Can you say faked? But, as someone pointed out in the comments, I'd love to see the Mythbusters tackle this one!

 

[denverpilot]

Reminds me of the oldie but goodie, 405 the Movie...

http://www.405themovie.com/view.asp

Made back when the Pentium III was King.

 

[rainsux]

> rained mud

I was overflying Amarillo once, and metar (via XM) was for "blowing mud." That was
worth the chat with FSS ... who confirmed the metar. Yikes!