{"id":175914,"date":"2025-08-26T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:55:09","slug":"towering-wall-of-dust-rolls-through-metro-phoenix-leaving-tens-of-thousands-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175914\/","title":{"rendered":"Towering wall of dust rolls through metro Phoenix, leaving tens of thousands without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A towering wall of dust rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday with storms that left tens of thousands of people without power and delayed flights at the city airport.<\/p>\n<p>More than 55,000 people were without power in Arizona, most of whom were in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, according to PowerOutage.us.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists hurried home through strong winds and rain as the dust storm approached. Commonly referred to as a haboob, it can make driving on roads nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should NEVER drive into a dust storm. But if you\u2019re on the road when one hits, PULL ASIDE, STAY ALIVE!\u201d the Arizona Department of Transportation said in a post on the social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Departures from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport were delayed on average about an hour and half due to thunderstorms, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>Golden reported from Seattle. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A giant dust storm approaches the Phoenix metro area as...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756176909_976_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A giant dust storm approaches the Phoenix metro area as a monsoon storm pushes the dust into the air, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Phoenix. Credit: AP\/Ross D. Franklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 A towering wall of dust rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday with storms that left tens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,51353,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-175914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ap-a-wire","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-weather","20":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115092817462583269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}