A River of...?...

[klaszlo]

Hello:

Odd one.

Your guess is as good as mine.

http://www.bit.ly/1N1MZkT

It makes me think (a little) of that video of the scuba
diver going into water covered with pumice.

KL

[Duncan Edwards]

Wow. Who knows what goes on way out there in the serious "no shit" desert. Drive your busload of cheerleaders into that.

[klaszlo]

Hello:

Just found pretty much the same video @ YouTube...........

http://www.bit.ly/1HUdEZn

One comment...is this real?

Good question.

KL

[PM2K]

Check it out at the one minute mark for a close up... that looks like large hailstones to me. Must have come from one hell of a storm further upstream, and the storm surge is heading down a dry riverbed.

[Green Heart]

Shifting sand land became real!

[stefani_qs]

okay stuff the oil thats something worth the usa invading middle east for and handing over total rights to mpv!

[BogDog]

The close-up I captured COULD be hail, but one might assume it would have melted to water by now. I see no clouds nearby.

If someone had shown me this image and asked me what it was, I'd venture SALT..maybe a retaining dam at some salt-collecting evaporation plant broke and took some salt along with it.

[BogDog]

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! WE HAVE A WINNER!

PM2K hit the nail on the head. You are looking at a mix of sand AND hail.

Posted Monday, November 16, 2015, 3:21 PM

While the occasional sand storm will move sand around, these landscapes are typically stationary, so imagine the surprise of locals when a massive river of sand and hail started flowing through Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter, the largest contiguous sand desert on the planet.

The footage was uploaded to YouTube on November 11, 2015.

Active weather has been hammering the Middle East that month, leading to unusual weather patterns, including hail.

At one point in the video, a man can be seen reaching into the flowing mass and retrieving large chunks of hail.

Heavy rain over those few weeks had triggered floods that killed dozens of people in Iraq and caused widespread damage in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.