PHOENIX—Crews cleaned up downed trees and got power mostly restored for thousands of people Tuesday after a powerful dust storm roared through the Phoenix area.
The wall of dust towering hundreds of feet (meters) high dwarfed the city’s neighborhoods. Called a haboob, the wind-driven phenomenon blackened skies and knocked out electricity for 15,000 customers late Monday afternoon.
Drenching rain followed, and flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where material from a terminal roof blew onto the tarmac, came to a halt.
But by Tuesday afternoon things were mostly back to normal, with only about 100 people still without power in Maricopa County and only minor flight delays reported….