dust storms

which one of you guys down under is kicking up all that dust in Australia ?

 

They recon it's radioactive from the uranium mines in SA, it blows right past me & lands on the poor suckers in NSW :lol:

 

thats not good, how long can you hold your breath?

 

What's the point, just take a few good gulps & get it over with. 8O

 

Keep meaning to ask, wizard, are you an ex pat?

 

Yeh, when Blair got in I got out. 8O

 

Yeah we had a few bad days up here too, and they lifted water restrictions in some towns so people could wash down, only to get hit a few days later.
I took time off work to enjoy my birthday to find myself battening down the hatches, then on the Saturday i had a BBQ and it came again in the afternoon trying to ruin my party.
In the 80's when i lived near Swan Hill we had a black soil dust storm over us that engulfed Melbourne, i could tell this dust was from the desert from the taste.... :?
Who would have thought during the nuke testing in Sth Aust 50-60 years ago that a dust storm would endanger the population of the eastern seaboard with such dust.
Hope i'm here to watch the spike in cancers over the next 20.

 

Hey rockerto, when you were near Swan Hill, I was at the Nyah West (?) pub having a counter meal the night of that dust storm it was followed by a lot of rain as I recall, I was actually staying at Goodnight.

 

I remember the summer of 83
We were back at school , the day started fine but getting home was a nightmare . We lived beside the irrigation channel 7kms west of Moulamein, 71km/s to Swan Hill which i traveled to attend Swan Hill Tech. I had to ride 5km/s from the bus stop back to the farm.

From our place it wasn't such a bad dust storm like you see in the movies but i think visibility was down to a hundred meters. My dad was in Melb at the time and the news footage looked worse than what we were in.
I don't remember the rain, but when it rained out there you could smell it a few hundred miles away which was always welcome.

Wow Bushy, i had a friend called Adam Foley i used to go to school whose family were citrus growers in Nyah West. Da was a Smorgan livestock buyer and we used to so the cattle sales in the area so we passed Goodnight a few times.
Were are you now? I plan on a road trip to Melb next year, but i should take the long way back and go visit the area if it all works out..
Cheers, Rob.

 

I'm in Somers, near where I lived then, at the time I was picking stone fruits/grapes at Goodnight, don't recall meeting Alan. Aaahh the smell of rain...c' ya.

 

Stop it you guys! This sounds like the book 'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute.

You guys know the book?

Loren

 

Yep, the film was made a 1/2 hour ride from where I live, but I was about 5 at the time, apparently the main actress said it was the right place to make a film about the end of the world.

 

I was lucky enough to be at home between shift cycles to watch it blow through the valley here in ipswich, was an impressive sight.

 

Yeah was surreal enough without the added pain of being at work during an event like that, did u notice the sun was blue and car windscreens reflected the blue light a lot.

 

Iin 7th grade I refused to do a book report on 'Lord of the Flies' (what absolute drival) and instead chose On the Beach. A very well written yet sobering novel. As I remember your part of the world was described as a lace with white fences around houses and the home of auto races to the death using hidden stores of petrol to fuel the cars.

Until the clouds came.....

 

Dust storms, On the beach, Lord of the flies, Mad max, Climate change, ....is there a theme here...

 

..why do I feel like I just warped into a pub in Australia....

8O




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