MAGIC SKY: THESE LINKS DON'T GO ANYWHERE. I am very curious because this sounds like the sort of toxic clouds i have been witnessing in the Northwest. Absolutely huge banks of smoky black or grayish white clouds that seem to RISE UP FROM THE GROUND! At one point, I was at a restaurant and a massive blackish grey cloud seemed to rise up from behind a hill and cover the town. It smelled terribly - I grabbed my daughter and ran inside. It smelled horrible, she stated that we were near the freeway and the pollution is always bad because of that. : 0 Yeah, right. It rose up from the east, the foothills of the Cascade Mtns, and the freeway was way to the west of us.... but what do i know?