Video lap video shows how fast the chicago skyline disappeared as The dust wall has blown.
“This looks like a bad thunder that passes, but you can say it just isn’t thunder. It’s dust. Dust is,” Thomas Jean-Masteus said.
The National Time Service said it was the result of 60 to 70 mph winds that blew over the dry farms, collecting the dust into the air and blowing it through the area in Chicago.
The dust crossed the interstate 55, forcing some drivers to withdraw and understood the opportunity, especially after warnings of the dust hit their telephone warnings.
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Jean-Mastej pulled back and pulled out the phone to record a rare scene.
“I was moving home, and the warning showed me the phone, and then my husband sent me, and then he called me. He is now,” prone to interstate. “I’m coming.” You come. “I was like,” I can see him on the south side, “he said.
Dust storms various whether through the central graduation ceremony in the far southwest of suburban morris.
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When the dust storm is hit, visibility in some places quickly fell to zero, and those standing outside they could feel debris in the wind.
“You can feel. You can feel dirt in your eyes and everything alike. You really need to have glasses at or something,” Tom Nichin said.
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The planes coming on the International Airport on Midway go through the dust storm to stop stoping incoming flights about an hour, while the Chicago areas have expressed more than usuals, because drivers were found in driving dust.
“It’s like something from book history, you know? Amazing,” Nichin said.
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According to the National Time Service, it was just the second time that their office in Chicago issued a warning of the dust storm, and the first time such warnings included the city.
Dust warnings are more common in rural areas of central and southern Illinois.
“Don’t think you’d see that in town,” Jean-Masteus said.
For most areas affected by dust storm, the sky was cleaned within 30 to 45 minutes.
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2025-05-17 04:13:00