A little dusty in Sydney this morning.....

[Feej]

Amazing morning in Sydney today - Huge dust storm has blown in and the whole city is covered in dust.

I woke at about 5.45 to a very eerie red glowing sky. Now that the sun is up, it just looks like fog, but there's dust everywhere! Car washes will be doing a roaring trade over the next couple of days.

Never seen anything like it - Thought I was living out the back of woop woop or something!

 

[clarabelle]

It looks like Mars! (not that I have ever been to Mars)
Is it hard to breathe?

 

[ToTLaugher]

Wow! Those are some pictures! Hope you get things cleaned up soon!

 

[Feej]

Is it hard to breathe?

No, but you can definitely taste it.

 

[AshleyW]

I just saw this on the news - how crazy.

This site has some more pictures:

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/environment/dust-turns-sydney-sky-red/20090923-g0tw.html

It would definitely freak me out a bit to wake up to that.

 

[Feej]

Here's a cool "before and after" pic I just saw. Gives you some more idea of how bad it actually is.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Those pictures tell the story! Wow.

 

[lovetoscrap]

That is absolutely amazing How often does something like this happen there?

 

[Feej]

That is absolutely amazing How often does something like this happen there?

I haven't seen anything like this happen in Sydney my whole life. I think I heard there was a day in 2002 or something, but I don't remember that.

Just looking out the window at work now at about 10am and it still hasn't cleared up. Pollen count is bloody high too - So that should be good for my asthma......

 

[LisaNJ25]

Yikes!!!! Things went crazy was Pete left!!!