AusBonsai

Hi Everyone.

Woke up this morning to a brown sky and gale forced wind. Hope my trees are hanling it ok
One good thing though is we received 18mm of rain since about 5pm yesterday, and more predicted today. Just wish the wind would die down a bit. My white car is now brown. So is my juniper I will have to give it a rince this arvo after work.

Mick

Hi Mick

We have receiced the dust you sent to Sydney !!

My trees look really good with the new dusty colour.

Take good care of your trees cause there are going to be another windy day

Andrew

I SEE RED! What a horrible day. Everything has turned red.There is at least 3ml of red dust on everything in my gardens.Last night we had a huge down pour.And this morning i woke to find everything choking, including me in red dust. luckliy most of my progressions are in the glass house. The rest, ill have to hose off. Where is it all coming from.

At 6 pm last night the sky looked revolting and I moved most of my trees under cover. Woke up at 6 am to bright orange and it is still hanging around and I am starting to feel gritty. The downpour last night was torrential interspersed with monsoonal and when it slacked off a bit it was only extremely heavy. Have not gone outside yet to see what the garden looks like but it is so eerie.. Just glad I didn't wash the car two days ago.

We get the occassional dust storm out here in Parkes but this morning was something diferent. Then I saw the pictures of Sydney on the news and realised we got off easy

I heard from some friends in Sydney that it was apparently a massive dust cloud from SA and Western NSW that basically blew across Sydney. Bright red skies, and people crying "Apocalypse!" hehe

Just heard from Don Delucca and he says if anyone sees some soil from his place could they bring it back next time they are out at Hay.

I have quite a deal of it on my car and it covered the benches and plants at the collection yesterday.

I will collect up as much as I can and send it back with Andrew and Ron

Verry pretyy in Sydney this morning
Check out the Sydney Morning Herald for photos http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydne ... -g1fw.html

Slippery on the roads this morning on the bike and every car lools like it has been covered in Akadama Dust

Ken

Up here in brissie we're copping it at the moment!! it probably peaked between 12-1pm, adn hasn't really backed off much =/ We're a bit luckier than you guys down south, we're not getting hit as hard, but t's still very unpleasant outside =/

its not far from hitting us here on the wide bay but i dont think its gonna be anything like it was in sydney, still had a couple of trees blow over! luckily my kids were home and picked em up straight away!
good kids, gotta love em

............They reckon that the dust storm might get to NZ................ you're a sharing lot aren't you?

thinking about collecting it, press it and sell it back to you guys as KiwiDama aka kiwi Akadama........

BoNZai

It got to Brisbane about lunch time today.

It was worse a few days ago in port Augusta...

It hit rockhampton 10 minutes ago. Getting dark and wind about 30km so we are getting off light. Still a long way it has travelled. Why cant rain travel this far!!!!!its 36 here today hense my whinning