Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Red Red Red!


Look at the red clouds. Is it sunrise? I peered out of the window before slumping back in bed. Too early... too early. A sudden blast. A loud burst of music rudely exploded in the room. Time to get up. Wasn't it sunrise?

"Ming.... you left your window open?"

"Huh?"

"See the red sand?"

"Huh?"

What I thought was just sunrise or refraction of sunlight turned out to be one of the biggest dust storm of 70 years. A big storm with gale winds picked up sand from inland desert Australia and blew it to Sydney and now Brisbane. My brother showed me youtube clips of bloody red surroundings in the morning. The red outside seemed to be better than what was posted up an hr ago at Brokenhill...

People at bus stops holding scarfs to their mouths and noses, not knowing that surgical masks do nothing as it doesn't block out fines.... It was all very interesting.... Everything was a sea of red...swimming in it.... When the sun broke out from cloud covers and illuminated areas... it looked eerie... It seemed white.... Like ... Tungsten lighting....



Weather officials warned there could be another coming in a few days....Interesting interesting ^^

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