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Startling images show the dust storm that passed from Madera through Fresno to Bakersfield and caused a highway pileup on Monday. Rare 'haboob' dust storm brings Central Valley to a halt Skip to ...
Strong winds in central California kicked up a dust storm on Monday that hindered visibility and sparked a pileup involving 20 cars. The National Weather Service office in Hanford issued a dust ...
The San Joaquin Valley, in which Coalinga is located, is a major agricultural region of California.The region had historically suffered from dust storms; the Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977 occurred in a different part of the valley, and a series of smaller dust storms killed seven people in crashes on the same section of Interstate 5 in 1978. [1]
Windows were shattering and store signs were blowing in the wind. It was described as if a twister was unrolled and blew up the valley in a sheet. Farther north in the valley, Fresno was having typical December rain. When the dust reached the rain, it turned into mud. It fell in sheets from the sky. [3] People awoke the next morning to a dark sky.
Arvin suffered further damage on December 20, 1977, when a dust storm hit the area. The Arvin Migratory Labor Camp was the first federally operated farm labor camp opened by the Farm Security Administration in 1937, one of many New Deal programs created during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt to respond to the Great Depression.
Jun. 19—A dust storm Wednesday afternoon along Interstate 25 near Algodones and San Felipe Pueblo caused multiple crashes that sent at least 18 people to the hospital, according to the Sandoval ...
1991 Interstate 5 dust storm; 1996 Yosemite Valley landslide; A. ARkStorm; C. California landslides; Crescenta Valley flood (1933 and 1934) F. ... January 1982 ...
A large dust storm moved over El Centro, California, on Thursday, October 6, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning for blowing dust and low visibility in the area.Video recorded ...