BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?

Subject: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 11:38 PM

Did any of our friends survive the recent Sydney sandstorm? It looked rather awesome viewed on the morning news.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, adrift in British Columbia

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: GUEST,Me
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 03:14 AM

Think of it in terms of a Murdock / Turner mirror elimination... Perhaps this will cheer you up...

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 03:33 AM

Charley, I links to posted photos I took & news sites, including user submitted photos on the Feb09 Bushfires thread in answer to Sins's enquiry here

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 03:41 AM

in fact I even posted links to my photos. Or something like that!

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: JennieG
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 04:16 AM

Waves hand feebly from sandpit (formerly known as garden): we're still here! We stayed inside and kept the cats in too. Garden has a new heap of topsoil that it didn't have a couple of days ago.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 04:53 AM

My stepson reports it to be non-dangerous but looking very like the set of a 1960s SF film about Mars.

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: mandotim
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 05:06 AM

My daughter is in Wollongong, and described it as looking like that Schwarzenegger Mars film; 'Total Recall'? I forget the title.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 06:53 AM

"To all those Western Australians, South Australians and Western New South Welshmen who are demanding their dirt back; get f....... its ours now! love from dusty Sydney"

Mudcatter Hilda Fish on Facebook.

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 08:40 AM

Hmm. Alarmingly reminiscent of the US dustbowl period.

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 09:04 AM

Sydney Dustbowl Ballad.

If you ain't got the do re mi boys,
If you ain't got the do re mi
You better go back to beautiful Alice
Murrumbidgee, Gundagai, or old Mudgee
Sydney is a garden of Eden
A paradise to live in and see
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot.
Since it's become the new Red Sea.


Sorry Woody, and I tried hard to get Slim Dusty in there, but failed.

JM

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 10:50 AM

I heard that the dust was so thick that millions of rabbits burrowed straight up through it!!

And when it settled, it rained rabbits for a week.

Art Thieme (champion liar)

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 11:02 AM

On the news last night there was an emergency room doctor talking about the joggers coming in with breathing problems as a result of the dust.

Makes me wonder where their heads were at, to even think of trying to run in that sort of atmosphere.

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Sep 09 - 07:40 PM

In Queensland, it also reached Brisbane and Toowoomba - and later up near Cairns... reached over to NZ ... the Satellite photos are interesting... now where did we put Texas down and lose it? ... :-P

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: alison
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 03:52 AM

well I woke up on wednesday and thought the alarm had gone off early because it was still dark - then I looked out the window at a VERY red world - freaky!! it stayed orangey most of the morning

yep there were lunatics jogging in it even though you could barely see through it.

apparently theres more tonight - but not so much - woohoo!!

and to think I moved to Oz to help my asthma.............
c'est la vie

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 07:42 AM

there were pics on the ABC site of similar loonies on a very red Bondi Beach!

whne I was wandering around taking my pics, lots of folks were walking around with hankies or scarves over their mouths.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 08:02 AM

Can't be good to coat your lungs with that stuff. Keep covered.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 10:17 AM

Sydney may face second dust storm

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 08:25 PM

The wind is very strong here at present (10.23am Saturday) and we can smell dust in the air, but it's nowhere near as bad as Wednesday's happening.

Sandra...I'm sure many award-winning photographs will emerge from the dust this week that won't even need to be photoshopped for special effects!

Cheers
JennieG.......10 days until we fly to Canada, woo hoo!

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 09:03 PM

news broadcast is telling me we've had dust & it's clearing. funny, I hadn't noticed it in my living room. Maybe I've missed a photo opportunity!

It's back: second dust storm sweeps Sydney (updated 4hrs ago)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Gurney
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 10:59 PM

A certain amount of it has settled here in NZ.

It's bad enough that the aussies come here, but now the whole bloody country is trying to immigrate!



:-}

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 12:15 AM

Uh, Gurney, would the last Kiwi to leave NZ, please turn off the lights. :-)

About time we sent something back to NZ. With the population drain, NZ is probably floating a bit high in the water, so Oz is just helping out a neighbour.

Helen
[Ducking & running]

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 07:26 PM

Keep on trucking!

Glad to hear that some of you have survived, and still have a sense of humor!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, still adrift in British Columbia

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 11:49 PM

Helen, as a previous NZ prime minister said when asked for comment about immigration (NZ to Oz,) "That should increase the IQ of BOTH countries."

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: Rowan
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 12:31 AM

What Piggy Muldoon said about migration of NZers to Oz was, in fact, "That should increase the average IQ of BOTH countries."

But most of them came to indulge their familiarity with what they knew best; sheep. Shearing, that is, with wide combs. But I can't recall any songs about the issue, only off-colour jokes that aren't worth repeating.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Sydney Sand Storm Survivors?
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 01:03 AM

The wind still is blowing a howling gale but the dust seems to have passed....for now, at least. I have been out singing with my choir at an outside gig in a park, fortunately the stage was a marquee with solid back and sides so we had some shelter from the wind while we were singing. However now I am home, and I am staying home out of the wind.

Cheers
JennieG