Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I woke to...

Wind. And... a world similar to my own, but coloured red.


Those faeries and their magic dust!
I usually have a beautiful view to the heart of the Sydney CBD, centrepoint tower and Aussie Football Stadium. Not this morning.


That was my view at 6am. The pictures look deceptively calm but the wind is still tearing it up. I was so sure I would find my plants in shreds. Rattling does not begin to describe the constant beating the windows are receiving but blessedly my plants are safe.

I have never seen anything like this dust storm, made all the more freaky because its red! There are better pictures than mine, here. Visibility has improved over the last few hours and the colour has lifted, leaving a white fog like dust blowing over the city. What an eerie morning.

9 comments:

  1. Good that your plants survived the tearing storm. ~bangchik

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  2. How strange, indeed! That is some BIG TIME dust.
    Rosey

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  3. I grew up in north Texas. When I was a child, we had dust storms like that. Very eerie. I'm glad that your plants survived intact.

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  4. I was watching that on our news this morning...eerie, to say the least. I'm glad your plants survived, and hope your lungs do too!

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  5. Never seen a storm like that. Good to know you are safe and your plants survived.

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  6. A shocker of a dust storm indeed! Glad it has subsided.

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  7. Whoa! I thought you were trying a new filter or something!

    Does the wind generally tear through the balcony or does it stay somewhat protected?

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  8. Its relatively protected Wendy. There is a building opposite which helps. Not that we don't get wind at all but we were lucky that day!

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  9. I wish I had been there. How crazy!

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