It wasn't too pleasant. You can taste the sand in your mouth and you eyes go gritty if you spend any amount of time out there. The sky does go orangey like that, though this is the worst I've seen in the 9 years I've lived here or the 9 I was visiting before that. It can wreck car paint, but more so when you are driving them. After 3 years, the paintwork is a little dull on mine, mainly from driving across the Dammam highway to get over to Bahrain. They don't happen all that often, though there is always dust in the air here. You'd perhaps reckon on 2 or 3 a year, but this one is an absolute pearler.