Dust Storm on Wednesday
G.day everybody.
Hope your all keeping well. We are still having beautiful sunny days apart from a lovely visit from the sand man last Wednesday. My next door neighbour telephoned me to let me know that a dust storm was approaching and to shut all the windows and doors. This was done in a hurry and then I quickly grabbed the camera, ran outside to have a look and take these pictures.
All these photos were taken a few minutes a part (click to enlarge)
Looking towards the Hwy watching the dust storm approach.
A few minutes later
Same time Looking towards the park
Right over my back yard
A little later over the
Looking towards hwy a little later.
Hope your all keeping well. We are still having beautiful sunny days apart from a lovely visit from the sand man last Wednesday. My next door neighbour telephoned me to let me know that a dust storm was approaching and to shut all the windows and doors. This was done in a hurry and then I quickly grabbed the camera, ran outside to have a look and take these pictures.
All these photos were taken a few minutes a part (click to enlarge)Looking towards the Hwy watching the dust storm approach.
A few minutes later
Same time Looking towards the park
Right over my back yard
A little later over theback yard
Looking towards hwy a little later. The dust was so heavy the main hwy was shut for a few hours due to poor visability.
Looking towards the park
Gary spent spent a long time cleaning and polishing the BBQ before he left for home, Now look at the mess all covered in Dust within a couple of hours
I forgot to run and shut the laundry door
Looking towards the park
Gary spent spent a long time cleaning and polishing the BBQ before he left for home, Now look at the mess all covered in Dust within a couple of hours
I forgot to run and shut the laundry door 
Ohh what a mess
Dirt and red dust covering everything in sight.
Too much dirt and dust to wipe off the surface. Only method was to sweep it all off before the cleaning process could even begin.
Later in the day hopefully the wind and dust has passed .
Dirt and red dust covering everything in sight.
Too much dirt and dust to wipe off the surface. Only method was to sweep it all off before the cleaning process could even begin. This is also only a small portion of dust and dirt on the table.
Later in the day hopefully the wind and dust has passed .Now time to clean up
Thats all folk, I will be around to visit you all in the next few days.
Labels: dust Storm
posted by Jeanette at 10:40 pm
20 Comments:
Geez, that must be awful ! I never experience one. Only a sandstorm in the desert of Morocco, and that was something terrible, you got the impression that millions of needles hit your face !
Oh what a mess! What happens to the swimming pool during and after these dust storms? Does it have to be drained and cleaned?
Happy cleaning! ;)
Hi Jeanette,
We had a wind storm last week with a prediction of having zero visiblity. It was just really windy and we could see just fine, lol.
I hope you don't get anymore windstorms, this one seemed pretty bad.
Have a nice week,
Janice~
You're so lucky to have someone to forewarn you of the incoming storm. Boy I remember these kinds of storm in Arizona desert. We used to get caught DRIVING in them sometimes and you couldn't see the front of the car it was so thick...and, you were told not to pull over, off the road, because of other traffic. So we kept on...in spite of hardly any visibility.
Great photos those are Jen.
Now the clean up. Ewwwww.
G'day, g'day Jen! That was quite an event! Thanks for showing this sandstorm! Very brave of you to get outside in the storm. Thanks for visiting. The doggie is an Aussie. He is my daughter's and the photo was taking in 2007 September.
Wow! That looks like quite the adventure. Kip's great-aunt actually lived through the great dust bowl in the us back in the late 20's/30's. (The Grapes of Wrath storms.) I gave her a great book you might like, short read, but beautiful. It's called. "Out Of THe Dust" by Karen Hess I believe. Anyway...if you like to read, it's quite wonderful...and dusty.
Dear Jan ~~ Great photos and the dust was really bad wasn't it? We did not get that, just some very strong winds. The nights have got colder and it gets dark so early now.
I always weigh myself just before I shower once in a while, so maybe they is why we are lighter when we dress and go to Dr.
I hope you have a great trip to Adelaide. Are you going to drive?
Take great care, dear friend.
Must get to bread, Love you. Merle, xxxx
This looks exactly like the dust storms we have around here occasionally - probably about once a year or less. Sometimes the visibility is just about zero for awhile.
Charlotte
Oh my, I've never seen a dust storm before, how ominous it looks when it's approaching! Such a mess it leaves behind, I'm sure you'll be wiping off dust for weeks to come!! I'll never complain about the little bit of dust I get in my house ever again! lol xoxo
Jen
Those dust storms look like a lot of work afterwards. Must have been bad to close the road. Peace
I've not seen one of these before. What a mess it made! Did you have the cover on the pool?
My first look at sandstorm approaching. Our fear is always having a hurricane headed this was, but the Tampa area has been spared the big one since 1988, so we continue to keep our fingers crossed.
Love the music, too!
Great post…………! So much information good to know.
I've never seen anything like this. Amazing the dust and grime left behind. You shared some great photos of the approaching storm.
I hope you are having a wonderful day. Thanks for visiting.
Jen my gosh!! all that top soil "get out there and grow potatoes my friend" (smiles)
Lee-ann
That stuff gets into every crack it can. Do you have dust storms often?
Hi Jen.
Wow, what a mess! I'm glad we don't have anything like that here. Is it a normal thing to happen there?
Take care and have a great rest of the week.
Lisa
We had it up here too, but nothing like you with all that awful dust to deal with. It really just looked like light smoke up here.
Hope you are keeping well.xx
we experienced a weird dust storm when there was still snow in piles. I should have taken photos to show.
Hey.. you could have written my name on your bbq.
It must be quite a chore to clean up after a dust storm like that.
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