Sand Fountain

• Dan
  May 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

  Sand boil:

  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php?term=sand+boil

• Marie Smith
  May 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  Spice blow.

• gtron
  May 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  if you stop the video in the early frames of the 14th second, you’ll see that it’s the face of the bad guy in the first Mummy film with Encino man in the lead.
  (Spice blow - that’s a good one.)

• Jerse
  May 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  Don’t know what the sand thing was but the Arabic at the end said “Praise the Lord”

• Willo
  May 20th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  Is that a spice bloom?

  -Shai-Hulud

• clinton robert labombard
  May 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

  No verification of what it really is.. could just as easily be sandy or muddy water spewing from a busted main. And if it were a sand boil I’d love to know what was causing it, right?

• SenorMysterioso
  May 20th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  Sand Worm

• nick
  May 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

  looks like water

• Idil
  May 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

  of course it said “Praise the Lord” it’s the live prayer.

• matt
  May 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  someone going supersaiyan is in there. look at the constant flow of ki.

  i dont really know what it is but it looks cool

• ted
  May 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

  Because the Lord has nothing better to do?

• darelparker
  May 20th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  It’s Scorponok. We are all doomed.

• Christophe
  May 20th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

  All I could find is :
  “Suddently, a 9-meter fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia.
  Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !
  But they agreed on a theory (…) that these are -what so called- burdens of the Earth.
  Allah said in the Quran : “And the earth throws up her burdens (from within)” 99.2
  Some scientists said this phenomenon will lead to apparency of new materials, which will change the humanity way of life …”

  ………..hum………….

  Good scientific approach. Yep.
  I vote for “big machine”.

  Anyhooooo, looking at the guy’s Youtube channel I found this:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEwHa04S6Y
  Crazy country.

• sam
  May 21st, 2008 at 2:22 am

  @Christophe: Holy crap@ skating on the freeway. My friends used to do that in high school, they just wouldn’t do it with loose fitting clothing next to tires that spin really, really fast.

  But that’s just us.

• luca
  May 21st, 2008 at 4:22 am

  It’s more probably muddy water since there is no dust spread aruond.

• Frank
  May 21st, 2008 at 4:35 am

  Muddy water sound reasonable.

• Ali S.
  May 21st, 2008 at 5:37 am

  I think it maybe it was a pressure jet. Much like the opposite of sand traps with holes in the rocky undergrowth. Perhaps, this is a pressure jet caused by the nearby Aramco folks?

• cooties
  May 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am

  May be equipment (like a ditch witch sort of thing). Here’s a smaller, similar event

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSb7NxgdRtQ

• btown
  May 21st, 2008 at 5:54 pm

  alaskan bull worm

• raincoaster
  May 21st, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  When my mother lived in Saudi Arabia she observed things like this: what happens is, when they get rain, they get torrents, and the drainage system in the cities is pretty vestigal. She told me she saw people who’d been living down there in the drains thrown up in the air by pressurized geyers like this, along with their furniture. It’s a strange story, and I may stick it on my blog.

  Apparently the geysers don’t last long, but they are powerful while they do.

• Thomas
  May 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 am

  Mole men.

• Knife Knut
  May 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm

  Here is a video that sort of corroborates raincoaster.
  You can see the flashes from lightning.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjOxXizk4w&feature=related
  Anyone here read Arabic?

• DOJ
  May 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 am

  lol at the Dune references

• Abu Muhannadh
  May 26th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  this is what is written in the link provided by Knife Knut above

  ??? ???? ???????? - ????? ???? - ??????
  ????? ?? ???

  and it means “a rainy day, and the drainage is filled, look what happened”

• perword
  June 4th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  The Spice must flow.

• randydude
  October 7th, 2008 at 11:26 am

  It’s a tarp!

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