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It was also like that here in Brisbane today. It was strange seeing everyone with masks over their mouths. Looked like the apocalypse.

Here's some more info about it, for anyone interested:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26114000-421,00.html

I snapped some photos from my bedroom this morning:

http://enneff.posterous.com/clovelly-gordons-bay-in-the-dust...

Damn, I was in Sydney 2 days ago so I just missed it. They're pretty spooked about climate change and water shortages down there. This isn't going to help matters any. It still would have been cool to witness. They say this is the worst dust storm in 70 years.

Craziness, me too. I was back home for six weeks and then this happens the day after I leave. . .

Its always surprising how small a world HN seems to be, but how much globe we all cover. Wouldn't surprise me if we were on the same plane. Didn't go thru LAX did you?

I'm just glad I didn't get an extended stay courtesy of mother nature.

Bushfire-season around Sydney is also an interesting time. Ash falls all through the city and down at Bondi you can see it drifting like rain onto the now-grey beach.

During the Hailstorm[1], the Sydney sky had green glow, of all things.

Now if Sydney has a plague of Locusts/Earthquake it may be time to postpone Mardi-Gras and Sleaze Ball... just to be safe ;)

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Sydney_hailstorm

Yeah the weather can be a bit wild here at times - but its not really that bad. Not hurricane (or cyclone) bad (living up north for a while is worse).

I managed to get some shots this morning on my way to work. All taken on my 3GS.

It caused air pollution levels to be 1500 times more than normal (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydney-dust-blanket-causes...) and it sure felt like it, sucking down all that dust. Can't have been good for me.

Most surprising sight for me was witnessing people smoking cigarettes still.

http://emberapp.com/baz/images/dust-storm-pyrmont-1/ http://emberapp.com/baz/images/dust-storm-pyrmont-2/ http://emberapp.com/baz/images/dust-storm-pyrmont-3/ http://emberapp.com/baz/images/dust-storm-pyrmont/

Looks like someone works at Google :-) (for others, google office is to the left of those photos).

What a weird morning.

The sky was purplish red this morning and by 8AM it was yellow. I went out to buy bread and came back tasting powder in my lungs.

You beat me, I just posted a dupe! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838978

Reminds me of the ending of Mad Max 3 - it must suck for the locals, but it's still pretty cool.

Nope, it's just fun for the locals. Apart from the asthmatics and firefighters responding to malfunctioning alarms.

The first I knew something was wrong was hearing the local mall's fire evacuation alarm going off at 6am this morning. Then I opened my eyes to see blood-red light coming in around the edges of the window and the smell of soil.

My next thought was: it must be a bad time to have one of those "eco" datacentres that vent directly to the atmosphere :-)

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