And that abomination, the hateful blinding sandstorm, did not daunt her.

By the early 1990s the city plan had deteriorated, full of impassable craters, downed electrical lines, blinding sandstorms, and sprawling slums.

He travelled for five days in the back of a pickup truck through blinding sandstorms and past gun-toting border guards, he said.

Wind, snow, sleet and rainstorms are discomforting enough under trying circumstances; but all combined, they are nothing to the choking stinging, blinding sandstorm.

Most of the day's labours had to be accomplished in a blinding sandstorm, which fortunately had subsided when we arrived at our destination.