It came over in the morning. Looking outside it was as if you had orange tinted glasses on. There were people outside with their cell phones taking pictures of what they couldn’t see – me included!!!
The dust storm was caused by extremely strong winds over South Australia and inland NSW after a long period of drought. The winds lifted the dust and soil from the dry ground and whipped it thousands of kilometres through the air, to Sydney and then to Brisbane.
It’s been estimated that, when the storm was at its strongest, about 16,000 tonnes of dirt were dropped on SE Queensland every hour. That’s a lot of dirt!!!
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