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The red dawn...

BBC and Sky News have been talking about this all morning. Any of you Aussies ever seen a storm like this before?
 
I have seen them bad out west in the red center when i lived out there working in the gold mines but they never made it to the coast like this.

Aparently New Zealand is about to get hit wit hthe dust storm.......... its going that far.

They are saying it will stain the glaciers and be recorded as history for at least 60 years till they melt completly :)

They have said its the biggest worst dust storm ever here
 
Here's some video...insane.



Oh, and this one is one from 2007, but...holy shit!


They're driving calmly into the Apocalypse chatting all the way...even the gal.

Man, I love AU. :D

I've been in a total whiteout before...a very weird and disorienting feeling...zero sense of direction or space at all except hearing/feeling the wind and cold snow.

But, that was snow. ;)
 
Badger said:
And you guys complain about the price? Over here it works out to about $8.50 a gallon.

Wow! Here in Sweden it's "only" about 7 US$ for a US gallon! ;) Guess why you don't see too many V8's here....
 
MrArboc said:
Wow! Here in Sweden it's "only" about 7 US$ for a US gallon! ;) Guess why you don't see too many V8's here....

And here - even though Euro motors have better consumption. Can you imagine trying to run a big thirsty Chevy V8 engine in nortern Europe? You'd have to take out a bank loan for the fuel!
 
This was a pic I took in the Dust storm yesterday morning.

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This is the same spot today at the same time of the morning..

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When I got home yesterday there was a fine layer of red dust all though my house...:(

and luckily all of my plants survived with only minor bruising....

We are apparently going to get more of the same on Sunday but not as bad....
 
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