Sydney is looking a lot like mars right now

[moonvoice]

As it's going through a dust storm rather unlike any other

Australia is seriously just one of the most awesome places in the whole world.













Feeling very bad for the asthmatics in Sydney though. Take care of yourselves!

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[white9-fox.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? :D

[shellypants.livejournal.com]

That is amazing and terrifying all at once.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I think it's awesome, I wish it happened here in Western Australia.

[rivenscythe.livejournal.com]

Zomg Highlander 2!

Very eerie... thanks for linking to them!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! :D

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

that's worse than a goldfields dust storm. Yuck!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be living there / having asthma.

[storm-seeker.livejournal.com]

Are you telling me your whole landscape is actually reddish orange like that? O.o Wow.

Aside from dust, what causes it and particularly, the fact that it's red? We have the immersion here in Salt Lake, but it's white/grey haze; I'm yet to see any Martian haze here. :(

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Well not here in Western Australia, but Sydney? Yup.

As for the red dust, it's because of red sand and soil, we have a lot of that here.

[kiraras-lemon.livejournal.com]

Woah, they're some of the prettiest city scenes I've seen in a long time :o
Australia is amazing, I really want to go there sometime~

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Everyone should come here at least once in their lives.
*pats continent affectionately*

[crowebasalt.livejournal.com]

holy crap... that's gorgeous and terrifying.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I know right?

[slyyder.livejournal.com]

Got a friend who is over there on holidays and visiting family and friends at the moment... waiting to hear how she's doing with it and when she is meant to be flying back

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I hope she's doing okay with it; and snapped some pics!

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Duuuuuuude. Nature is fucking awesome.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yes! It makes me happy.

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

we've got a lot of your red dust here right now. i'll save it up in a jar and post it back to you.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[anrui-ichido.livejournal.com]

That. Looks. So. WICKED.

Are these dust storms very dangerous? I'm sure they can be. :O

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Are these dust storms very dangerous? I'm sure they can be. :O

They've had a lot of problems with fire alarms going off due to being stopped up by dust / sediment, and I know there's been some traffic / health problems... but otherwise I have no idea.

[sagewhite.livejournal.com]

We've got it here in Brissy as well, just not as bad. Did the run around closing all the windows cause the whole house smells of dirt now. I put a link to some pics I took in my journal.

Reminds me of the Ash Wednesday fires in 83, when Melbourne was swamped in red dust storms.

[donnalotus.livejournal.com]

haha yeah... damn clay...

[vanirpriestess.livejournal.com]

o_O

1. Beautiful.
2. Wow, I would so have bronchitis right now if I was living there. Although it might be worth it to see something like that.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how my lungs would react, seems to be one of the few parts of my body that isn't overtly fucked up.

[jamminbison.livejournal.com]

WHOA.

It really does look like Mars! That's so cool, but scary! Wicked.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Lol, your icon is so win.

O.O

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

Holy moley!

That is just incredible!

And those Australians must be incredibly dedicated to their pilates, lol.

Re: O.O

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, especially beachside pilates.

[earthguardian.livejournal.com]

Mars!!!!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Australia IS MARS!!!!!

[halfapersona.livejournal.com]

On Triple J this morning with the red haze and the earthquakes and the equinox, they were saying it was the end of the world.

Then someone called up and said she was driving along when she thought it was raining. Then she realised it wasn't rain covering the car, but grasshoppers or something. The presenter was just like, "Locusts! It is the end of the world!"

The pictures above are way cool though. I was wondering what it must look like. Thanks for posting them!

^_^

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee, the bit about locusts? Awesome. Who knew the end of the world would be so damned pretty? :)

[paleo.livejournal.com]

Wowzers. Does that happen often to Sydney?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Nope. For some people who live there, not ever; and not to this severity.

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I knooooow, it looks so seriously awesome.

[aleia-kali.livejournal.com]

wow looks like an alien world

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It does. I love it. :D

[nar-kiranka.livejournal.com]

Its like Mars. Not that I've ever visited Mars myself but... yeah...

Well I'd enjoy a visit ;P but then again I only know you there ;P

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee, well I could introduce you to some, and we can walk the land, or we could just not leave my little cottagey house. :P

[http://users.livejournal.com/__hellyes/]

This morning I woke up and I truly honestly thought I was about to die. It was TERRIFYING! Then the insane 100km/h winds started! This country has lost the plot!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I heard that there's been mental storm weather as well. And apparently one woman called a radio station to say locusts were flying into her car.

Clearly armageddon is going to start in Sydney...

[amhrantine.livejournal.com]

It may look great, but it's a total pain in the arse. There is red dust all over my windows and my car was covered in it. It also made starting the car up difficult as its got into the motor works. Plus it's been pushed here from the red centre by incredible winds, which tried to knock me off the highway and swamped the road in red dust.
Weirdness.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah I bet it got into everything. So I shall admire from afar.

[qilora.livejournal.com]

WICKED

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

INDEED YES! :D

[gishkishenh.livejournal.com]

Dude, this TOTALLY reminded me of one of the first sand-storms I went through when living in Israel.
The only thing more eerie then the orange tint, was waking up to a fine powdered layer of sand coating EVERYTHING in the house.
Major hellish clean-up that day. XD

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

You lived in Israel? Awesome! How long was that for?