I was browsing a local paper earlier and came across some pics which blew me away! The whole vista was orange! It was so surreal and very eerie!
Apparently a dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed several cities on 23 September 2009, disrupting transport, placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness and stripping thousands of tonnes of topsoil off Australia's main farmlands.
According to The Australian, “Dragging up soil from three states, the plume grew to more than 1500km long and 400km wide; at its peak sweeping up 140,000 tonnes of soil an hour. Overnight the thick, red dust blanketed Sydney, with the city awakening to a deep-red dawn that transformed into an eerie orange glow.”
Check out some of these pics, courtesy of some news sites. Gotta say that some of them gave me goosebumps!
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