Then a huge explosion really swept us off our feet - it was like a big gust of wind, like a sandstorm, things hitting your face and then a huge explosion which was ear piercing.
"It's like a sandstorm down there," he said.
Without trust, you cannot identify anything; it's like a sandstorm.
Koko Taylor's big, raspy voice blasts through her blues tunes like a sandstorm.
Others fled, running down the street through a cloud of thick dust that looked like a sandstorm.
"It's like a sandstorm … everything is constantly changing, according to somebody else's will, somebody else's power".
In one, taken from the hills above Christchurch, a white dust cloud rises from the city moments after the quake like a sandstorm.
As for Max, Hardy is more earthed than Gibson, and less wired — indeed, less mad, propelled not by the engine of wrath but by a solid response to the madness that engulfs the characters like a sandstorm.
Those might be earthquakes or flooding — although probably not from a tsunami, as was the case at Fukushima Daiichi in March — or some other hazard peculiar to the plant's location, like a sandstorm.
Though the international economic crisis has raged like a sandstorm through Dubai's office towers, financial markets and construction sites, a January visit found the sprawling restaurant scene remarkably intact.
