The authorities said 17 people had been killed and as many as 150
injured in one of the worst chain-reaction accidents in the nation's
history after colliding in a blinding dust storm. on California's main
north-south highway.

93 cars and 11 tractor-trailer trucks were blackened and melted. Some
had apparently exploded. Most of the dead were killed in their cars
about 160 miles southeast of San Francisco.

California Highway Patrol closed a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 5
around the accident site, which is north of the farming city of
Coalinga, on Friday 29th November 1991. The worst previous accident of
this nature 11 Dec 1990, near Chattanooga, Tenn., when 13 people were
killed in an 83-vehicle pileup on Interstate 75 in heavy fog. The
California Highway Patrol said the worst highway accident in this
state occurred in 1976, when 29 schoolchildren were killed after their
bus plunged off a freeway exit in the town of Martinez.

Santa Ana winds after a five-year drought in a rich agricultural area
of Central California caused much of the land to turn to dust, and
many fields lie dry and uncultivated.

No Rain for 9 Months.
"We had an especially dry area over there." Bob Buckles of the Mid-
Valley Fire Department said, "We have a lot of loose topsoil from the
farmland because most of the crops have been harvested."

The pileup began shortly after lunch time Friday, when Thanksgiving
weekend drivers on both sides of the highway drove into the blinding
dust. "It was three accidents, and then they all came together over a
mile-and-a-half area," Mr. Scharton said. Along the mile-long stretch
of highway where most of the accidents occurred, some vehicles had
been been smashed repeatedly and others had exploded into flame and
burned to blackened hulks.

A spokesman for the Highway Patrol said the storm arose too quickly
for officials to take precautions or to close the highway."With fog,
you know it's coming up. With wind you don't know it's coming up."

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06 Nov 11:11
14 Nov 14:01
21 Nov 22:56
28 Nov 15:21
06 Dec 03:56
14 Dec 09:32
21 Dec 10:23
28 Dec 01:55
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...hases1901.html

In the absence of more data, the phase for the 28th November is a
tornadic one. However with Santa Ana winds blowing....
Well, we know what phases they run on.

Where would I get a list of dates for them, I wonder?