VIDEO: Dust wall hits Valley homes

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A thick dust wall spotted in San Tan Valley July 5.
Photographer: Monica Kennedy
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Posted: 07/05/2011

Home video from Phoenix shows how quickly a massive dust wall moved through that city on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of clips have been uploaded to sites like YouTube.com and Vimeo.com since the storms hit just before sunset.

Here's the view from Scottsdale, taken frame by frame, as the haboob moved into the North Valley.

Haboob (Sand Storm Scottsdale AZ 2011) TIMELAPSE from Steven Esparza on Vimeo.

This next video from the Tempe border shows the dust wall turn the entire sky as black as night ... even when the sun is still shinning.

Warning: The below video does contain adult language.

Here is the view from Gilbert:

The dust wall as viewed from Scottsdale

Here's the aftermath at 7th Street and Bethany Home Road:

Here's the view from Stapley and US 60 in Mesa

This is an incredible view from Phoenix

Here's the vantage point at the San Tan Mountains

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