Sydney and Brisbane are Orange Today (Literally)

[hannahmcintyre]

I only have some pictures of Sydney, but it's getting pretty bad in Brisbane, too. The "haze" has been in Sydney since this morning, but it only arrived up here in the past hour or so. It was eery, getting lunch and seeing a "wall" of orange looming towards me.

 

[khirz]

That looks rad.

 

[vgeek]

Is it a sandstorm or pollution or what?

 

[schockergd]

Looks like something out of mad max

 

[No One]

What the?!?!?! that looks crazy!!!

Why is it like that?

 

[hannahmcintyre]

It's a huge dust storm.

Just to give you guys an idea, Sydney and Brisbane are about as far apart as New York and Chicago (about 700 miles)

 

[Konkorps]

Man... don't breath that shit in.

Agent Orange anyone?

 

[Webwonder]

and people are still out exercising in that shit...

 

[gdubs12345]

the end of the world looks awesome. is jesus coming soon?

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Fucking Australians with their music and their hair...and their orange clouds of doom.

 

[Medici]

roughly, how often do these storms occur on this scale?

I need to experience this in person.

 

[Rob_TID]

I took some pretty funky photos here in Sydney this morning

 

[tripl3]

some say it was the start of the apocalypse....

my fuckin lungs are filled with dust now...

 

[r3p1v]

Looks awesome. It should be a different color every day

 

[ncmedia]

 

[hannahmcintyre]

roughly, how often do these storms occur on this scale?

I need to experience this in person.

Never. This is the worst one there's ever been.

 

[agua]

Surf was pretty empty though - so some good came out of it

 

[Sticks79]

Yeah, and it tastes like fucking shit, it don't taste like no normal dust to me.

 

[Fatbat]

I gotta give you props, I laughed yesterday and then again today when I saw this. Excellent job.

 

[agua]

They reckon that 16million tonnes was deposited on the Goldie yesterday... and it didn't look as bad as Sydney... thats a lot of dust...

It did taste like shite