{"id":170992,"date":"2026-02-19T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:07:08","slug":"apocalyptic-scenes-as-dust-storm-settles-on-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170992\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalyptic Scenes as Dust Storm Settles on Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sky in Lubbock, Texas, turned brown when a dust storm, driven by high <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSLubbock\/status\/2023658053304799667\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:winds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">winds<\/a>, impacted the region on Tuesday, February 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by Heath Bookout shows motorists navigating a hazy road with lowered visibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bookout told Storyful the blowing dust filled the sky during his commute to work, and he saw several drivers pull over when visibility was impaired. Credit: Heath Bookout via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sky in Lubbock, Texas, turned brown when a dust storm, driven by high winds, impacted the region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69100,69099,168,170,169,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-170992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-dust-storm","9":"tag-heath-bookout","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}