i just saw pictures on TV of the dust storm you guys are having. WOW - Good luck to all involved

Looks like we'll be in for some amazing sunsets, the dust has just reached NZ. The photos I've seen look like some sort of beautiful appocalypse has hit your city's.
Are there many side effects/annoyances from it?

While the northern part of Aus was getting dust, we were getting a couple of inches of rain down near Horsham in Victoria

butchloc and shanks...

I guess it all depends on your point of view, and what you're familiar with.

I spent a lot of my life in the regions where the dust came from, and my first thought was to get rid of any oil on my guns... red dust and oil make a great valve grinding compound... also good for smoothing a rifle action, but its pretty aggressive stuff.

It's an inconvenience, but hardly a catastrophe... I was staggered to see people queued up at car wash places during the 'event'.... another mob was advertising that for $60, they'll clean out your clogged air filter... give me strength... get more dust in 10 minutes following a road train than would have happened that day.

Neighbour was really upset that his car had a coat of dust on it - oh deary me, drive the thing for five minutes and most of the dust will blow off before you get to the carwash.

On the way to work, listening to the radio and one guy rings up and says 'I'm 38 years old, I've never seen anything like this, and I'm scared...' FFS...

Storm in a tea cup, and the media made their mileage out of it - one channel even had a program about what food stores to lay away in the event of another 'catastrophe'...

Major inconvenience to air travel, as well as harbor (commuter) ferrys, but hardly catastrophic....

FMD, seems a few Sydneysiders should spend a few weeks out west and get to understand the country.

btw, I currently live in Sydney, but I guess my cynicism is showing.

You've got to remember ruger, some of those people have NEVER been out of the city. And by the sound of that there might be one or two of those 'new age guy' freaks. I can see it now. Good luck with Sydney.....

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some of those people have NEVER been out of the city

Now they don't have to cause the country has come to them.

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Originally posted by wirehunt:
You've got to remember ruger, some of those people have NEVER been out of the city. And by the sound of that there might be one or two of those 'new age guy' freaks. I can see it now. Good luck with Sydney.....

Yeah, I know... when I got divorced I lived with my Mum and Stepdad for a few months, and at the time had a g/friend in Bulahdelah (3 hours north of Sydney)... Mum's fine with long distance travel, but StepDad couldn't believe that I didn't get a major service on the car before I took off each weekend...

Bloody hell... a 12 hour drive is nothing for me... bt I know a heck of a lot of people who've never been west of Katoomba. Poor bastards, they have no idea what they're missing.

My brother took a girlfriend from Sydney up to Lithgow to visit us one weekend. She freaked out when the car went over 80kph She'd never been that fast before in Sydney.

Where I live, at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains behind Sydney, we copped the dust storm on Wednesday, and then on Saturday we had hail followed by SNOW and now the winds are trying very hard to blow us off the mountains - so we have had it all!

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That's great BwanaBob, it should have got rid of that dust by now then

The dust stuffed up some smoke detectors at work. It was ugly for a while until the smoke detectors were replaced.