My Street.

[Tree Reb]

If you didn't see my post and Brians link in the Weather thread here's a few pictures from yesterday and today.

The wind kept up all night and today, you can't get much better.

 

[SkwerI]

What a mess!

 

[vharrison]

Wow!

 

[MasterBlaster]

How long does it last?

 

[Tree Reb]

Only ever seen one reach here before, nothing like that.

It got here about 3am and lasted till about midday, but the wind didn't stop till this morning.

 

[Strikermike]

I have heard they can cause very high voltage static discharges within a home. Is this true?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Man, I bet the carwashs are gonna make some BUCKS.

 

[gf beranek]

Are dust storms a seasonal phenomena there? That can't be healthy or good for a lot of reasons.

 

[MasterBlaster]

They don't usually make it to the coastline.

 

[sawinredneck]

That was crazy! Like a heavy rain around here after heavy winds from the south for a couple of days, it rains orange mud!
I remeber seeing some dust storms in the winter crazy stuff! Clean out the filter on your heater/a/c good now!

 

[gf beranek]

That was crazy! Like a heavy rain around here after heavy winds from the south for a couple of days, it rains orange mud!
I remeber seeing some dust storms in the winter crazy stuff! Clean out the filter on your heater/a/c good now!

I'll bet that'll plug some filters in noting flat.

 

[sawinredneck]

And nobody even thinks about it Ger!

 

[gf beranek]

Since the internet I've seen lots of pictures of dust storms. Before the internet I seen a few pictures of them, but thought they were very rare. Now I'm realizing they're common in many places. Man that has to be hard to anything in. It must shut down everything.

 

[Tree Reb]

I remember seeing Newsreels of the Panhandle dust storms when I was a kid.

We don't get them usually because of the mountains but Melboure has had some big ones. I put heavy duty filters and pre cleaners on my chipper, stump grinder and me during the last drought. Don't use a/c, don't like it.

It's hit New Zealand, about time went something back there.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/25/2696441.htm

 

[Tree Reb]

I was thinking about those old Movietone Newsreels and found this, there's some others there. And people think things are tough now.:roll:

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[stehansen]

We get them once in a great while here. Usually get a spike in Valley Fever cases after it.