Sydney Wakes to ‘Nuclear Winter’ as Dust Covers City

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Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- An orange glow blanketed Sydney today as gale-force winds whipped up one of the city’s largest dust storms on record, shrouding the Opera House with a choking powder, snarling traffic and forcing airlines to divert flights.

“It’s like a nuclear winter morning,” Peter Wilson, 53, a visitor from Queensland state, said at Circular Quay in central Sydney as fog horns echoed across the harbor. “It is so eerie.”

The Harbor Bridge was hidden by a thick haze as the early morning sun struggled to pierce the blanket of dust blown in from the drought-stricken interior of the country. Train commuters, some wearing masks or clutching handkerchiefs to avoid breathing in the dust, stood on the platform snapping photographs of the spectacle on their mobile phones.

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth.

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The dust left many residents of Australia’s most populous city tight-chested with a metallic aftertaste in their mouths as they made their way to work through the haze.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=aB5uT176prSM

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Peter Wilson is an idiot.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

someone remind me again why australia is so great?

[Pooky 3,929]

someone remind me again why australia is so great?

Hey! Hating the Aussies is supposed to be an English thing! Keep your Yank paws off our third favourite pastime!

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What the hell is going on down under? What happened to cause this?

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- An orange glow blanketed Sydney today as gale-force winds whipped up one of the city’s largest dust storms on record, shrouding the Opera House with a choking powder, snarling traffic and forcing airlines to divert flights.

“It’s like a nuclear winter morning,” Peter Wilson, 53, a visitor from Queensland state, said at Circular Quay in central Sydney as fog horns echoed across the harbor. “It is so eerie.”

The Harbor Bridge was hidden by a thick haze as the early morning sun struggled to pierce the blanket of dust blown in from the drought-stricken interior of the country. Train commuters, some wearing masks or clutching handkerchiefs to avoid breathing in the dust, stood on the platform snapping photographs of the spectacle on their mobile phones.

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth.

...

The dust left many residents of Australia’s most populous city tight-chested with a metallic aftertaste in their mouths as they made their way to work through the haze.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=aB5uT176prSM

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Whoa. Did you see the pics? That's pretty cool.

Link

Toggle through the ones on this page. They're super cool.

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wow, we are not in Kansas anymore, toto...

[Peikko 1,575]

Cause? Global warming is my guess

[Heracles 417]

Apparently it's being reported that Obama caused this.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That can't be good for your health.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Looks like a collective LSD trip going on there

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Beautiful but serious. Not sure about GW being behind this but people's allergies there must have gone up like mad.

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I hope they don't lose their International Best-City Awards.

[Peikko 1,575]

I'm surprised at those doing outdoor exercise in that stuff - definitely unhealthy.

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I hope they don't lose their International Best-City Awards.

How about bestest dust-covered urban areas? Sounds cool to me.