I swear, I was walking home from school a few years back and a dust funnel formed like 5 feet away from me. It was like 10 feet tall but didn't last long.
Those dust devil things are fun and interesting to watch, because it's not all that dangerous, unless you have problems with breathing and such. Just don't walk into one with your eyes open XD
Big whoop. I live in Southern California, and every late summer we have gigantic wildfires that fill the air with smoke, turn the sky red and brown, and on the closest occasions, fill my lawn with gray ash. I have missed days of school because of wildfires, and I have been evacuated before. My school has almost burned down before, when the flames were right next to the tennis courts.
I've also been in Beijing, where massive sandstorms from the Gobi Desert turn the Beijing sky a dull golden color and toss grit everywhere, including all your uncovered orifices. My point is that all these things sound cool, but they actually suck major ass.
Lol tell me you haven't been waiting a long time to say that. :P Yeeeeeeaaaah! =D Looks sick though. I wish we had sandstorms here in Toronto... wait... no bad idea.