really bad weather

the caption for this image reads:

A Spectacular and Ominous View of an Approaching Sandstorm, a Gigantic,
Rolling Wall of Sand 4,000 to 5,000 Feet High, April 26, 2005 Al Asad, Al Anbar
Province, Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah – Republic of Iraq

looks truly horrible, worse than the giant dust storms they had in the great plains in the 1930s, and apparently a nearly daily occurrence in the evening---