A dust storm hit Kuwait last Friday, March 25th. Thankfully, I was safe in my hotel room when it arrived in our area. The windows in my room look in to a fairly large courtyard that is surrounded on all four sides by buildings. It was a nice sunny day and the next time I looked out my window the sun was gone and I could hardly see to the other side of the courtyard. At first I thought it was fog that had come in off the gulf but when I went to the door to take a closer look I realized that it was dust, not fog!
The storm lasted a few hours and when it was over there was a layer of dust all over the place about ¼” thick—even in the hotel’s underground parking garage! This dust is very fine—like icing sugar. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to be caught out in that storm while you were walking or driving in a car.