Six66Mike
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Australia Dust Storm
Sydney Harbour Bridge this morning:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2694174.htm (probably the best URL, tons of related stories along the right side. Plenty of photos
on Flickr too - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sydney+dust+storm)
| Quote: | Millions of people in New South Wales and Queensland are looking up at orange skies today after dust storms hit areas from greater Sydney in the south
to Brisbane in the north.
Sydney awoke to an eerie red dawn this morning after strong north-westerly overnight winds dumped thousands of tonnes of dust on the Harbour City. The
story was the same in the Hunter Valley, Wollongong, and in areas further west around Broken Hill.
Later in the day the dust arrived in Brisbane, with the Queensland capital bathed in an orange glow, but conditions were less severe than those
further south.
The weather bureau says it is the worst dust storm since the 1940s and the NSW Environment Department's Chris Eiser says the particle pollution is 10
times the worst on record.
The Sydney Opera House turned orange as the haze covered the city and flights were delayed and diverted.
The Sydney dust cloud is expected to hang around until later this afternoon and ABC weather forecaster Graham Creed says particles in the air have
reached dangerous levels.
"They're classed as dangerous at levels above 200," he said.
"In Sydney's east they're recording about 256, in the north-west 919, and in the south-west 1,719. But Sydney is not the worst, Bathurst at the moment
is 2,665."
Emergency departments are under pressure after at least 250 people across New South Wales called 000 with breathing problems.
The Health Department is urging people to stay indoors and says the conditions are likely to continue tomorrow.
As high winds pushed the haze into southern Queensland, fire crews said they were worried it could complicate the fight against at least a dozen
bushfires which had flared across the region. |
Brisbane is covered now, doesn't seem to be as bad as Sydney had it. My desk and floor has a thin layer of dust, I've been coughing on this shit for
hours now. It's 2pm right now, started coming in around 10am here. The house is going to be covered in this shit for weeks, I can feel it all over
the keyboard and anything else I touch.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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BDx13
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gnarly!
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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DAK
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Cool pic.
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mattybar
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that's fucking crazy.
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Six66Mike
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10pm and just had a shower. It's mostly cleared out now, they said it would still be dusty tomorrow then clear out. There's no rain in the forecast
for the next week so there's going to be a fine layer of crap around for a while.
You can still smell it everywhere. The shower was good, cleaned up and got my airways clear but as soon as I got out I started coughing again, feeling
my throat & nose burn. The floors & carpets are all slippery, when I listen to music on my PC the speakers crackle now so I'm not sure if they're
damaged.
Plus it's school holidays so the kids were home, stuck inside all day long. That was all sorts of fun... 
I'm glad today is nearly over 
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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