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22-09-2009, 07:25 PM
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Scary stuff Trev, we've been getting dust from recent mainland storms settling here in Tassie.
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22-09-2009, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevnool
Awesome event Steve you should be here.
Hundreds of thousands tons of top soil must have been lost in SA.
Lets see who else ends up with it.
Cheers Kev.
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I tell you who has ended up with it!!! Bloody Canberra!!
I half expected one of these  to drive by...
Baz.
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22-09-2009, 07:52 PM
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Looking Down From Above
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We got it here too, Baz
Plus as an extra got pounded with golf ball sized hail as well, everything is a dirty red now
Cheers
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22-09-2009, 09:41 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Location: Rockingham WA
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Can remember a huge dust storm when I was a kid in Kalgoorlie, was a huge wall coming toward us, then engulfing us. Scarey stuff for a kid... but it was nowhere near this bad!
Anyone know if there has been any satellite imagery released?
Have seen satellite images of smoke from large fires before, so surely.....
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22-09-2009, 10:12 PM
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They aint just doubles :o
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Location: Gosford NSW Australia
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Wow, I have never seen a dust storm as bad as that one.
I hope it clears for you folks soon.
Was that the Sun in one of the Photos?
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22-09-2009, 11:28 PM
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Support your local RFS
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You just can't pick the weather at the moment dust storm followed by a massive thunderstorm down my way.
judging by the weather station data I'd say Sydney is the next port of call for this weird front.
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23-09-2009, 07:19 AM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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Location: Broken Hill N.S.W
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inmykombie
Wow, I have never seen a dust storm as bad as that one.
I hope it clears for you folks soon.
Was that the Sun in one of the Photos?
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That was a streetlight Geoff in the pic.
It blew wind and dust here till the early hours of the morning.
now i got to clean all this dust up.
No sense trying to ring up for a steam vac man to come around as every person here is probably thinking along the same lines.
Cheers Kev.
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23-09-2009, 07:36 AM
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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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23-09-2009, 10:04 AM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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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.
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23-09-2009, 10:55 AM
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Wow Kev and Steve, I can't believe how dark it got at BH.
Thanks for sharing.
Amazing stuff !
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23-09-2009, 10:59 AM
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The sky is Messier here!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BerrieK
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.
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Gee thanks for the details, don't think I'm ever going to look at chocolate bars in the same way again
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23-09-2009, 04:49 PM
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Spam Hunter
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
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Ah... you've already posted it!
Al.
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23-09-2009, 05:04 PM
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Hi Kev,
Been studying the progress of the next high pressure system all day and also the animated satellite images. As crap as it was last night it is looking like it may be a good imaging night tonight. I reckon by midnight this high should be close enough to Broken Hill to push the jet stream down far enough for some semi bonza seeing . Might be wrong but I have vacuumed out the dome and am preparing my equipment to give it a go.
Cheers
Trevor
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23-09-2009, 08:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quark
... but I have vacuumed out the dome and am preparing my equipment to give it a go.
Cheers
Trevor
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Hey Trev
How much dust was actually in there?
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23-09-2009, 09:43 PM
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Location: Broken Hill NSW Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bones
Hey Trev
How much dust was actually in there?
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Hi Bones, well I emptied the vacuum cleaner three times, then went over everything with a damp cloth. Kept wringing out the cloth in a bucket of water. I have been in the habit, for a while now, of pulling heavy plastic bags over my power supplies and electronics, so no dust got into them. The dust was a bit like red talcum powder. The ground floor of my observatory was much the same with a layer of red dust over everything. Spent the afternoon cleaning it all up.
Tonight I have been imaging and have some very nice data, will take me about 8 hrs to process it and I will post it tomorrow.
Cheers
Trevor
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23-09-2009, 10:19 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quark
Hi Kev,
Been studying the progress of the next high pressure system all day and also the animated satellite images. As crap as it was last night it is looking like it may be a good imaging night tonight. I reckon by midnight this high should be close enough to Broken Hill to push the jet stream down far enough for some semi bonza seeing . Might be wrong but I have vacuumed out the dome and am preparing my equipment to give it a go.
Cheers
Trevor
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Go for it Trevor , looks great outside at the moment.
Stark contrast to last night.
Cheers Kev.
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23-09-2009, 10:20 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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Location: Swan Hill
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 nice pics Kev we have had lots of those dust storms here too but not quite that bad
Im glad im not the one doing your housework his week
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24-09-2009, 01:41 AM
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Kev,
That dust gets all over the place, I hope it does not last long.
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Tom
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24-09-2009, 09:17 AM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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I,m Sadie the cleaning lad----no man.
Have vacuum will travel.
Cheers Kev.
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