It was something of a wild and windy night. I was certainly blowing hard down at the track on Tuesday night and only got worse. We woke on Wednesday morning to a very strange and errie sight it was as there was an orange light shining through the blinds. A dust storm had blown through from "out West" where pretty much everything is red and carried with it dust which turned the air orange!
I managed to take some snaps which look as if they've been tinted with sepia!
The journey to work was an interesting one with 100km winds and little visability. The beetle doesn't cope well with wind being the flat screened aerodynamic wonder that it is! I got to work exhausted after the wrestling match!
School was still open although the students had to stay inside all day... thankfully everyone just about survived that ordeal. Any teacher will tell you that windy days unsettle kids... windy orange coloured days!!! Well you can only imagine! People with asthma were particularly vulnerable and there was also the risk of flying debris.
When I got home the air had cleared and the wind had died down a little. EVERYTHING including some stuff inside is covered in the red dust, and the wind has damaged our shade sails and snapped one of the posts as if it was a matchstick.
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Newcastle Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
VIDEO: Dust storm slideshow
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3 comments:
Wow, wow, wow and wow again! Wished we'd had seen it. Enjoy the clean up xxx
Yes dust storm made world wide news!
so glad you are all ok and well done with beetle driving! shame about shade sails - put on list?! xxxx xxxx
glad to see the sled is still out and about!!!
jp x
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