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    Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space

    Iraqi Dust Storms Seem Straight Out Of "Dune"
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Who runs Barter Town?
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    09/24/09

    @w1llk: MASTER BLASTER!
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    09/24/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    I guess we don't need to send people to Mars now that the Mars has been brought to us.
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    Image of yrag yrag
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Man, droughts, fires & sand storms of biblical proportions!

    What's going on? Australia's been on the bad end of the climate stick of late.

    Good luck down there!
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    09/23/09

    @yrag: They are probably all connected to our general lack of rainfall of late. No rain means empty damns and no water supply for farms (and even cities) so we are drought declared. And without the rain we also have a dry crispy bushland which equals high fire danger. And the inland areas are just so dry from the drought that there is no moisture in the dirt so it gets pick up by anything stronger than a stiff breeze.

    I wouldn't be surprised if we had another one at some point.
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    Image of eviladrian eviladrian
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    The view from my flat yesterday morning:
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    09/23/09


    @eviladrian:
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    09/24/09

    @eviladrian: Dude... you are all gonna die..
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    Oof. Reminds me of when San Diego was practically on fire when I was in college, 2003-ish. The skies were orange, the skies were ashy, the air was almost unbreatheable.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    That actually looks like that scene from the end of Mad Max 3, when they're flying under that very bridge...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/23/09

    In reply to Australia's Red Dust Storm Looks Like The Apocalypse, Even When Seen From Space
    It's not from this recent storm, but it's still pretty cool.
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    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent:
    My iPod just played "Riders on the Storm".
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    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Shamelessly lifted from someone's comment on Jalopnik, taken yesterday.
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    Image of UlisesHz UlisesHz
    09/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Id be shitting bricks
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    09/24/09

    @UlisesHz: I was just thinking that - I am amazed the kids in that video seemed to hold it together. If I was their age (maybe 7 years old?) when the sky went from yellow to red to black within a minute I would have absolutely shat myself and probably shat everyone else too.
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    09/24/09

    @stereobot: The kids of Australia are a hardy bunch. Descended from convicts and all.
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    07/07/09

    In reply to Iraqi Dust Storms Seem Straight Out Of "Dune"
    Looks like a sand storm to me. I've seen more then a few of these flying over Nevada and Africa in a small single engine plane.


    Being a desert region, I'm not surprised to see Iraq gets them too.

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    07/07/09

    @Cash907Censored: Really? Because it's one of the worst in memory.


    [www.reuters.com]


    You sure must be an unlucky pilot to be involved with that many catastrophic dust storms.

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    07/07/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Maybe it's the worst in the region, but they do happen often over the Sahara. They get bad enough at times to even reach over Florida and have been linked to lung disease, algal blooms, and the decline of coral reefs in the region.
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    07/07/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: Yeah, I know. I was pretty much just being a jackass.
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    07/07/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Unfortunately, we still don't have jackass or sarcasm tags. :-/
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    07/09/09

    @Cash907Censored: I had a toothache once, so I totally understand what it feels like to have half my face dissolved by a shotgun blast.
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