Today was my first experience with Iraq's sand/dust storms. I awoke to a bright orange sky. You could barely see the Mussayib Power plant smoke stacks only a few hundred meters away. I was hard to see where the sky and ground met, they were so similar in color. A lot of people walked around with bandannas and scarves wrapped around there faces to keep the dust out. Some of the windows were broken out of our offices from past mortar/rocket attacks, the dust blew in through them until we taped garbage bags over the windows. I've attached two photographs, one taken weeks ago with blue skies (and the usual power plant exhaust) the other taken this morning (Monday 1/29) at the peak of the storm. Supposedly these storms hang around for days, this one is supposed to clear tomorrow...
Your friend in Iraq,
~Sam
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