21st Century dust bowl


	21st Century dust bowl
lifecyce1898
9-23-2009 11:16 PM
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9-23-2009 11:18 PM
lifecyce1898
Is Australia the Canary in the coal mine?
9-24-2009 4:58 AM
mona
it was really quite spectacular !
today Sydney is (mostly) back to normal but it sure shook people up ~ and remnats of the dust storm will probably remain for a while yet.
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state. By noon on Wednesday the storm, carrying an estimated 5 million
tonnes of dust, had spread to the southern part of Australia's tropical
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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1215443/Australia-dust-storm-sweeps-eastern-coast.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/8F988649-42ED-448F-8C3F-568D54024183" alt="circular quay, sydney" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1215443/Australia-dust-storm-sweeps-eastern-coast.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/C8096708-D5C1-4094-BF0D-FD72CE7104E9" alt="Covered: The Sydney Harbour Bridge seen swamped by the dust clouds" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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