A day of contrasts

wintermute · 23rd September 2009, 09:47 AM

Today was rather bizzare in Sydney. I woke up to a reddish orange sky, by the time it was time to leave work you would never have known that the morning had been so unusual.

Attached are before and after photos taken out the window at work around 8:30AM this morning, and 5:15PM this afternoon. Not great quality as they were taken on my phone, but gives an idea as to the severity of the dust storm!

Tony.

picowallspeaker · 23rd September 2009, 10:08 AM

As seen on tv!

peranders · 23rd September 2009, 03:10 PM

How does your car look today? Covered with dust?

wintermute · 23rd September 2009, 10:07 PM

yep but it was already very dirty... in a way it looks less dirty because it has an even layer of dust all over

being black it is hard to keep clean!

They said on the news last night that it was millions of tonns of topsoil lost from the areas where the dust storm originated. That is a lot of dust!!!

peranders · 29th September 2009, 07:29 AM

Where is the dust now? Not in the air I'll hope?

Gyuri · 29th September 2009, 07:52 AM

The day of the doomsday may be similar to this somehow.

aardvarkash10 · 29th September 2009, 08:11 AM

I'll be too busy partying to notice...

wintermute · 29th September 2009, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gyuri

The day of the doomsday may be similar to this somehow.

I had that feeling when I awoke to an reddish orange glow coming through the gaps in the blinds!! was most eerie.

There was (and still) a lot of the red dust on the ground Peranders, but the skys have been clear since late that same afternoon

Apparently we had some more on Sat, but it was gone before I got up...

Tony.

23rd September 2009, 03:10 PM	#3
peranders Electrons are yellow and more is better! diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Blog Entries: 4	How does your car look today? Covered with dust? __________________ /Per-Anders (my first name) or P-A as my friends call me

23rd September 2009, 10:07 PM	#4
wintermute just another diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sydney Blog Entries: 22	yep but it was already very dirty... in a way it looks less dirty because it has an even layer of dust all over being black it is hard to keep clean! They said on the news last night that it was millions of tonns of topsoil lost from the areas where the dust storm originated. That is a lot of dust!!! __________________ Any intelligence I may appear to have is purely artificial Some of my photos

29th September 2009, 07:29 AM	#5
peranders Electrons are yellow and more is better! diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Göteborg, Sweden Blog Entries: 4	Where is the dust now? Not in the air I'll hope? __________________ /Per-Anders (my first name) or P-A as my friends call me

29th September 2009, 07:52 AM	#6
Gyuri diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Budapest	The day of the doomsday may be similar to this somehow. __________________ Those who would have deserved the life they are all dead already. "Oh, my dead dears!" - Captain Cat

29th September 2009, 08:11 AM	#7
aardvarkash10 diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Auckland, NZ	I'll be too busy partying to notice... __________________ Yes, conservatism thrives on low intelligence and poor information. But the liberals in politics... continue to back off, yielding to the supremacy of the stupid. It's turkeys all the way down. - George Monbiot, guardian.co.uk, 6 Feb 2012


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23rd September 2009, 10:08 AM	#2
picowallspeaker diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2007	As seen on tv!

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