March 8 Sandstorm

We experienced our first sandstorm. March 8th ... the weather for the day was showers and breezy. The morning was cloudy with a little sun, breezy but not considered windy. In the afternoon around 2pm we were in the lounge playing cards, the weather had not really changed other than it was more cloudy, no sun. A lady came running into the lounge warning everyone that there was a sandstorm coming. When I looked outside, the wind had suddenly picked up and on the horizon it looked like brown smoke in the air.I had just enough time to run to the trailer and close all the vents. On the run back to the lounge it was like running thru a heavy snowstorm pounded by wind but it was all sand . The pictures are in chronological order and from the first picture to the last was about 5 minutes.It was like something out of the movies. After the sandstorm it started to rain very hard. After about an hour the wind died down to nothing.