PICTURED: Sandstorm Blankets Sydney, Australia
Last week a freak sandstorm swept through Sydney, Australia and turned everything orange.
Dubbed one of the worst sandstorms to ever hit Sydney, the city was last week choked with sand and major landmarks turned reddish orange as the storm carrying an estimated 5 million tonnes of dust blew through Sydney.
Britain's Daily Mail reports that the official air quality index for New South Wales recorded pollutant levels as high as 4,164 in Sydney. A level anywhere above 200 is considered hazardous.
Also, you know you're a gadget freak when the first thing that enters your mind when you see amazing photos like this isn't "Wow, isn't nature an incredibly beautiful and destructive force?" but, "Oh my god, the dust! The cameras! NOOOO!"
Check out the images below from Flickr users Dmmaus and MarchingAnts (photo streams for both can be found here and here). Click here for more Flickr image results from the Sydney sandstorm.
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Wow, that looks like something out of an apocalyptic world
Silent Hill!!
Cue Darude.
This is what the end of the world will look like but pollutant levels will be OVER 9000!!!
Fallout3. Take some rad-aways
lol @ "Oh my god, the dust! The cameras!"
Fallout 4: Sydney. That is all
It looks really awesome, although I doubt that's what the victims were thinking about.
Every so often nature overclocks itself
When I saw the first image I thought of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas..does that count? lol
Bring out your dead, bring out your dead...I'm not dead yet!!
So this is on Toms because theyre hosted on Flickr? Is that all it takes to make something tech news now? Oh, I supposed they were taken with a digital camera. Maybe the photographer owns a laptop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xD [...] re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2CiDaUYr90
Great, that's how Mars is going to be... outside of the dome..
Great, that's how Mars is going to be... outside of the dome..
Yeah. lol.
Now where my house? I cant find it underneath all this sand.
meh, happens around here where I live every 5 to 6 years also. Makes everything look like the surface of Mars, I half expect to see the Mars rover going over sand hills.
ummmmm was like that here in Brisbane too but perhaps not to that extent
that was also days ago
ummmmm was like that here in Brisbane too but perhaps not to that extentthat was also days ago
Which is why I said last week.
That, is fuckin awesome. Yes, I definitely thought, man those camera's are SCREWED.
Ouch. Nature just PWNED them.
It was dust, not sand.
And GAH! it got all through my case
here's a few i took in sydney at about 6:30am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nismo [...] 435677928/
Fallout comments might be more accurate than you think
They are currently studying the dust to see if it was radioactive, as there was a big uranium mine in the region where the dust came from.
It's clear from these pictures that God lives in Sydney. And He is not happy with the L4D2 ban.
tang.
visibility is remarkably good in reality, I gone thew fog that was thicker,
it is much more creepy tho
I had to walk through this. Visibility was around 75-200 metres in my area at 6:30am. I was coughing and blowing dust out of my nose for most of the day, well after the storm had passed.
Oh, and to be more correct it was definitely dust, not sand. Mostly nutrient-rich topsoil from farmland and even further inland than that.
It covered at least 1200km (about 750 miles) if you look at this satellite photo overlaid by Google Earth:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordp [...] ace_ge.jpg
I kept on sneezing and had a runny nose within minutes of walking outside (and then for several minutes once inside)...
The carwash businesses made an absolute KILLING!! It was also funny seeing about 80% of cars absolutely covered in dust... and even now some still haven't bothered to wash them!
Well, at least they raised the water restrictions enough to let me rinse off my windows (for the first time in several years).