Dust Storm
Hi Everyone.
Tonight A few photo's of our dusty Monday..
Front page headlines in our local paper.
Tonight A few photo's of our dusty Monday..
Front page headlines in our local paper. The Small print reads: A severe dust storm blew through Yarrawonga/Mulwala on Monday in advance of welcome cold front that brought 10mm of rain.This boosted the September rainfall tally to 17.2mm which is well below the 50mm average.
I took these outside our supermarket of the storm comming across the lake.
the next two photo's as the storm passed over my back yard, you couldn't see the sky through the thick brown dust
What a mess! The back window of my car
The front was as bad as the back and
I had to use the windscreen washes before I could drive my car home.
Labels: dust Storm
posted by Jeanette at 11:29 pm
22 Comments:
What a mess! Hope everything has pasted and all that is left is clean-up, which isn't much fun.
How is Penny feeling? My Mr. Jones, >^..^< visits the vet on Friday to get neutered. But he doesn't know it yet ;)
Have a good day whatever you're doing.
Ann
What a mess, wow so much sand!
Diane
Oh my! That sand storm looks like a real pain!! Hope things are back to normal for you by now!
Junie
Hi jeanette, I hope that dust didn't get inside your house. With having below average rain have you managed to get your water tank filled up for the summer?
Oh wow, that was quite some dust storm for sure! I've never been in one of those, not even sure if we've ever had dust storms around here. I can just imagine how it covers absolutely everything!! Yuck. xoxo
That sure left a mess! Glad we don't have those. Can only imagine the pain it was cleaning up afterwards.
Wow ! that must have been terrible ! I can see that on your pictures.
I only once saw a sand storm and that was in Morocco in a desert ! we saw it coming it looked terrible we just could find a shelter to wait until it was over. Fortunately we had scarfs to cover our heads and face !
We were warned it was coming here, but luckily for us, it did not appear! What a mess it all makes.
Yuk, I hate dust storms. That choking smell of dirt and the mess they make, even with the windows and doors closed.
That's a horrible one, Jen. Hope there wasn't too much cleaning up to do.
do you get many of those storms?
I know they're pretty common in parts of the world vaguely bordering outbacks and deserts... e.g. Beijing's meant to get terrible ones
do they last long?
i hope they at least flush the redbacks and funnel webs out of the back garden for you!
The air quality must have been terrible. Is is hard to breathe when one of these storms comes through? I suppose you have to stay inside if you can.
We never have these that I know of.
xo
Whew - looks terrible. Hope you were inside and it didn't get into your house. How long do they last???
Smiles.
Hi Dear Jan ~~ Great photos of the dust storm - it was here but I didn't see much of it. Just the murky looking sky, but others have said it was yellow and dirt tasting. Glad that doesn't happen often. The orchids were beautiful, but I didn't take my camera. I will know better next year. Glad you liked the ponderings and the jokes. Yake great care, Love, Merle.
Hi again Dear Jan ~~ Glad you liked the Twins story -it was a nice one and also the jokes. You remembered taking the wrong remote by the joke about the lady taking her TV one to spite her husband.
Trust a man, Al in this case, to remind you to take the right remote, and never let you forget. Take care my friend, Love, Merle.
Your back window looks like mine! LOL I turned the wiper blade on the other day. The washer fluid doesn't work for the back window, so when I turned it on, dust just went flying everywhere! We need rain desperately!
Lisa
Hi Jen,
We sure have our share of bad weather in the UK but nothing like that thank goodness, hope everything cleaned up OK.
Oh wow....in Arizona [USA} we had these dust storms quite often. It's scary and such a phenomenon that you don't know what to do if you're out on the highway and come upon one huge storm like that...you can't see in front of the car and afraid to pull off the road for fear of someone behind you not able to see you...it's something.
Fantastic photos!
Hope you're having a super weekend.
Hi Jen, those dust storms leak dust into your house too don't they? Like through underneath the window sills? Looks like the car wash people will have a good business if they are allowed water for their businesses.
We, like Anni, had them in El Paso, Texas. It would seep in anyplace there was the smallest crack.
On the cars? Well, our 'dust' was really sand. It ruined paint jobs, like a sandblaster would. And it also etched the glass so it wasn't shiny anymore.
Penny is spoiled. Period. And she knows she can have what she needs. Just ask Jeanette and Jeanette will come running.
Cut dog you have, does she know she is a dog?
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Wow, and a bit more rain would have been nice to go with it. But some rain is better than none at all!
G'day Jan, I guess that dust came in from the Mallee area, there used to be dust storms regularly from there when farmers used the fallow land system of farming, not so common now fortunately.
So that's what it looked like. Neil Mitchell had someone ring up that day, saying a dust storm was on the way to Melbourne, and somebody else called in soon after, saying he couldn't see the Westgate Bridge through the dust, but it must have gone out to sea, because we didn't get it in the northern suburbs.
The sky looked so gloomy. I could just imagine what a trouble a dust storm brings. I've never experienced one and I'm thankful for that. Hope all is well with you. Take care.
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