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Originally Posted by BerrieK
Well guys we can consider ourselves lucky that we don't live in one of the better known desert countries.
My hubbie was given a warning from a collegue recently regarding the contents of dust 'over there'. Due to the extreme dry, the number of animals defecating in the desert and the custom of people being a bear in the woods (ie does a bear poo in the woods? do people poo in the desert? Well yeah of course, there aren't any public toilets or anything now are there?) there is a heap of dessicated faeces in the dust. In an average 12 month deployment you can breathe in the equivalent of a chokito bar (yep, funny choccie bar to choose I know) of poo - so make sure you cover you mouth / nose when its dust to filter it out.
YUK
We really are the lucky country here in Australia in so many ways.
Kerrie
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I am guilty for this crime as theres no town or service station every 40 klm,s away from a service station,
Also overgrazing will come into the equation, well theres not much green pickings out here.
But anyway we live in the driest continent on earth and it has to be expected but boy it was a show indeed.
My son was out of town 5klm,s walking around the bush with 4 of his mates when it hit so they tried to run back to there cars and got caught in the darkness and as he said lost, Till the worst of it was all over then he rang me and all he wanted was a shower when he came back home and i expliained to him this is what it is like in a solar eclipse ( beside the dust).
Cheers Kev.