Australian dust storm!!

• Sep 23, 2009

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Well for every one who doesn't know there was a massive dust storm today which covered the NSW and QLD state. It was a massive wall of dust which blocked out the sun for most of the morning and left a nice layer of dust on everything!

Here a few pictures!

Heres an image of the harbour bridge that, was not even visible during the early morning, today.

Heres a picture of the sun!

Heres a pic of a car covered in dust!

LMAO heres a comparison shot!!

So I was just wondering if any one got some pics of a laser in the dust.. I didn't even think of it at the time! but I'll post some pics soon of my car and also my laser in the semi-cleared air!

BTW if you want to know how this happened and see some videos you can go here

Dust Turns Sydney Sky Red

or here

Dust Storm Chokes Sydney

Finally here is a video of someone driving into the dust storm at broken hill!

 

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• Sep 23, 2009

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I was hoping the exact same thing. When I saw the thread I thought someone had.

Shame really.

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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I saw a bit of that too since I live in the ACT, but there was a lot of rain shortly after so that kind of cleared it all away for us, so no lasering (but it was my first thought when I saw it, lol).

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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lol your quicker then me... I thought of it once I got to skool.. about 2 hours after I saw the dust! was it as bad as it was here.. or did you only get part of it? btw ill upload some pics of my car in the morning! LMAO its covered in dust and the morning dew didnt help either!.. going to have fun cleaning it on the week end LOL..

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Wow that looks really cool! Loved the video, just looks crazy when it goes all dark as he drives in!!

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Wow, cool!

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Why god, why do i live here T_T
It would be uber awesome to see that IRL !

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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I wonder if you shined a white laser through the dust if it would appear brown.

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Holy shidoodle. Thats pretty cool

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Cool, too bad only snow in winter here.

 

• Sep 23, 2009

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Thank you for posting that video. It was incredible!!! I can't imagine experiencing anything like it. Up here we get whiteout snow, but it really doesn't come close...

 

• Sep 26, 2009

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That frikkin dust made it all the way up here! I live about 2000km or so away from Sydney ...

Seems to have lost it's red tint, but it's still here slightly, 3rd day counting ...

 

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• Sep 26, 2009

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Saw this on the greek news.

 

• Sep 27, 2009

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LMAO.. yeah it was really red..

btw why was it on the greek news.. thats kinda random!

 

• Sep 28, 2009

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If you have a high resolution version of the first picture... I'd love it for a desktop background. I have a thing for interesting photos like that...

That's no fun though, since it doesn't exactly melt like snow - plus the added consequences of soil loss.

Trevor

 

• Sep 28, 2009

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Nah sorry man.. thats the biggest size i can find of the first pic.. ill keep looking tho.. check this out!

Thats a massive wave of dust! estimated at 40 million tonnes of dust!