Dust Storms Are Fun

[eyliena]

 
I live in Metropolitan Sydney. 
I know what some of you who haven't been to Australia might think of our little country - desert, desert, bushland, outback, stereotype, stereotype, snakes, spiders, hopefully you think about awesome beaches.

I live in a city with big buildings, I live in the middle of somewhere, not the middle of nowhere. I've only

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[shinyopals]

I've seen some of the pictures and it does look kind of awesome. All the same, hope it goes away soon so you can get on with things - we only had a few minor sandstorms when I lived abroad and they were kind of cool, but a bit of a pain at the same time!

[eyliena]

Hehe. Novelty is gone, I'm afraid.
Skies were clear by the afternoon.
The choke-worthy air was no novelty, though :P
But we lived

[logicisfailing]

Glad to hear you're ok (and that you thought it was awesome, lol). I was reading this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_australia_dust_storm and couldn't remember what part of Australia you lived in but wanted to check your LJ.

I remember reading about the dust bowl/dust storms in America. They're terrible but really cool at the same time.

[eyliena]

Hehe. I have a skylight in my room and when I got woken up at 5.30am there was weird orange light coming through that looked like it was flickering because of my fan and I thought the roof was on fire