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[shaun]

Mike,

They are driving on the wrong side of the road.  It is the vortex of going the wrong direction that cause the dust storm. :icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

Really, growing up in West Texas I have seen my fair share of dust storms like this.  Once I can remember that I could not see the end of my car.  I got off the road and waited it out.  Later I read about all of the car pileups from the dust storm.

Shaun

[David E]

It only happens in the Eastern States...we get a prevailing Easterly wind in Perth...sends it all to Sydney....where it belongs !!!....sh**t of a place

Perth forever

DavidE

[David5o]

You need to see dust storms in the middle east, to really know what it's like to be in one. While i was working in Libya, I frequently had to drive 900km from Benghazi south into the Sahara to a small town called Tazerbo. The road was crap, and always took a day to get there or back. Some of the dust storms i encountered on those trips were the worst i'd ever experienced anywhere in the Middle East. You just couldn't see the end of the vehicle's bonnet..... just every now and again, you could see where you were going. Pulling over, wasn't an option, no-body wants to be stuck out in the dessert on your own. The road that i traveled on, was a company made road, so i knew nobody else would be traveling on that road, as it wasn't being used anymore as a haulage road.... and it was dead straight virtually no bends where i could have come a cropper!! ...hahaha!!

One one occassion, i was given a brand new Toyota land cruiser, the company had only just taken delivery of it. After going through two sand storms, ...one on the way down and another on the way back, there was very little, if any paint left on the the leading areas of the vehicle. The headlight boxes were pitted as well as the windscreen, The chrome bumpers looked more like brush stainless steel. Now that's what you call a sand storm!! ...lol!!

David....

[RobertBfrom aust]

We do not stuff around in Australia , latest report is our huge dust storm on the mid coast of New South Wales , which effectively closed Sydney down has now reached New Zealand , so now they will have red dusty sheep .

[Vince G]

which effectively closed Sydney down has now reached New Zealand , so now they will have red dusty sheep .

Or Red heads as some of them are called? :icon_biggrin:

[Scottish_Rob]

Yeah I saw this dust storm on the news...I thought it was tv playing up....:blush:

[David5o]

We have dust storms here in Cyprus, well not storms as such, just high winds coming from the North African, or Syrian desert areas. Can't really call it sand either, more like a fine dust, that reaches us in Cyprus.

What i do know, is that it always occurs just after I've spent ages cleaning the car, or the patio's and the pool. Everywhere gets a coating of this dust. It's a real sod to clean-up too!!

David....

[Scottish_Rob]

What i do know, is that it always occurs just after I've spent ages cleaning the car, or the patio's and the pool. Everywhere gets a coating of this dust. It's a real sod to clean-up too!!

David....

Hehe Just a thought here mate...But don't clean the car...lol:icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

[David5o]

Rob,


Some of us ain't slobs hahaha!!

And what about the patio's and the pool, should i not clean them either??  lol!!

David....

[brett]

I've not seen dust storms, but I remember living on the south coast on England and sometimes seeing cars coated with dust. It turns out it was sand from the sahara desert! :huh:.

[shaun]

Once a year for about two weeks we get dusted with neon yellow dust.  Pine tree pollen. :icon_cheesygrin:

[Willy The Londoner]

When I first saw this I thought it was Danny arriving back in Oz after his time in Zhuhai.  But it turns out he was creating his own storm in Wuhan.

Willy

[shaun]

Once a year for about two weeks we get dusted with neon yellow dust.  Pine tree pollen. :icon_cheesygrin:

Oh we get something like that where I live ... but different ....

starts around Thanksgiving time, and lasts until St Patty's Day .....

when the cold air from the north streams down across Lake Ontario we get this light fluffy white stuff that is like dust ... makes a real mess all over the place .... turns all the trees and ground white!

strange....

:-/

Mike,

I don't miss that messy white stuff very much.  It will hit here once or twice a year and lasts a few hours.  Funny, I can't remember what kind of pollen that is? :icon_cheesygrin:

Shaun

[craig]

Yes the blood aussie red dust ended up on my deck
But it came down with the rain
I went to work at someone said they had the stuff on there car and I m like its not april 1st is it and sure enough it was true

What next will they try and export from aus to us kiwi's