Dust storm from NSW has just hit the Sunshine Coast; is very warm and humid here. Yet I hear at home in Mount Gambier it is 16 and raining!!!!!  We are going  home in about 10 days time, so will be finding it a tad chillier than here!!

We had the red dust yesterday (you'd think those living in Central Australia would take more care with their dirt) and last night had 26mm with a burst of walnut sized hail stones at 2300.

We still have a fair amount of dust in the air here in the Hunter Valley, and the wind is very strong and cold compared to the weekend weather.

You bush blokes are being ripped off. All that real estate changing hands without a dollar to see for it. Very charitable. Send the bill to the coastal communities who are the recipients of your real estate. It's been a year of extremes around the country. Floods, gales, downpours and floods, hail, thunderstorms, bushfires indirectly attributed to the weather. All we can do is be prepared for everything. Cheers Chris

stupid me washed the tardis on the weekend, now its covered all over with this dust, where are the smile buttons??

Thick dust and very windy in Brisbane... not often I say this, but glad I was at work today, in the aircon filtered air. Morag

Hi All Same here with the weather in Casino, We washed both vehicles at weekend,grrr never mind only dust a few hours work and they will be back to normal,at least we are alive and well Chris and Robbie

Dust Complements of South Australia. He He

Not funny Popeye South Australia is no more, Its all in the Motorhome lol Chris and Robbie

Awwwwwww ....Geeeee.......you get all our soil for free..and all you do is complain  .......last few days we have had 30mm rain...no dust here


Dave

45,000 tons of topsoil per hour flying over the heads of sydneyites, all crops destroyed on the eyre peninsula pitch dark at 2 pm, 100 k side winds driving the cruiser back down the centre, visibility 50 yards, scary scary stuff, adelaide tomorow and home saturday, wonder what I will have left!

would have been fun driving the tardis in those winds

the only reason we kept going was

(1) we were on a schedule
(2) we had a couple of tons of low slung puddle jumping cruiser

she sat pretty steady on the road with the occasional foray off to one side,

if I had the motorhome under those conditions then I would have had no choice but to get off the road, point the nose into the wind and hunker down until it had passed over, the wind would have flipped the vehicle very easily, some gusts were 120 kph

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I hope SA and Vic get some of the rain which follows the dust storm. Adelaide had flash floods before the dust storm. It's all too weird. NASA's satellites filmed the dust across Australia to the eastern sea board. The land could not be seen beneath the dust cloud. A massive phenomenon.

Bloody wind is horrendous in Merredin 260k west of Kalgoorlie. (wheatbelt still) An overnight low of two degrees and not much better for the rest of the week. Feel like I've killed a Chinaman! Think I'll go back up north from Kalgoorlie.....must be getting old and grumpy or my bones are anyway...

wonder if some in motor homes in this condition say buger it and stay in a motel that night?

no we just hole up in some protected place and try to make a thingy out of paper, read a book or just quietly drink ourselves to sleep! until it blows over, all travel is good even when the weather is foul, when she clears up it's away we go again! any day involving movement is a good day!!

dave06 wrote:

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any day involving movement is a good day!!

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I agree.

I get a dreadful headache if I don't have one.

 

Batten down everyone, there's more dust heading east. I sent an email to my friends at Innamincka, and expressed my desire to see the country, but then I remembered, it's in George Street Sydney now.

milo wrote:

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wonder if some in motor homes in this condition say buger it and stay in a motel that night?

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No way Milo, I just do as Dave suggests. Besides, It's nice being rocked to sleep.....