Huge Dust Storm Envelopes Pheonix Area

 

Thousands of utility customers in the Phoenix area were without power for up to several hours Friday evening following a massive dust storm, but a temporary "ground stop" for all incoming flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has been lifted.
The Salt River Project tweeted that at least 8,800 customers were without power as of 8:08 p.m. local time, the bulk of whom are in the southeast Valley and Apache Junction area.
An outage map on SRP's website, www.srp.net, indicated less than 150 were still experiencing outages as of 9:15 p.m.
Up to 12,000 were originally without power.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/07/26/phoenix-arizona-dust-storm/13203115/