I know I have been thinking of you folks there. The satellite photo
Jeff posted sure showed the storm looking ominous. Can't be good with
all that dust.
All the best to everyone over there.
Mike in CO
On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:53 PM, W&S Schroer wrote:
Hi list,
it's Friday morning and the city is covered under a cloud of dust
again. It's not as bad yet as it was three days ago but I'm sure
that out in the desert more meteorites will be exposed thanks to the
relentless storm.
Unfortunately, the bi-annual Gem & Mineral Show started today and
will end on Sunday. Most stall holder have travelled hundreds of
miles to get here, so for them it will be a financial disaster if it
doesn't calm down soon.
Storms are quite common this time of the year but they normally
don't carry dust of this magnitude. The dust was originally moved
earlier this year from inner eastern Australia to the west when
unusual heavy downpours in north-eastern Australia created countless
little 'rivers' and filled up the normally dry salt lake called Lake
Eyre in the north of South Australia. Something like this happens
only once in every decade or even less and it creates a wonderful
show of nature where the wildlife flourishes for a few months until
the lake dries up again.
And this is happening now and millions of fish and thousand of
pelicans and many more other animals are dying. A paradise is
turning into hell right now and since hundreds of thousand tons of
fine dust travelled with the water to this region, it is changing
now from mud to dust again and those normally harmless yearly storms
pick up this fine material and carry it from west to east covering a
large part of Australia.
Unfortunately, Broken Hill is the first major city that gets hit by
these storms and by the time they reach the east coast with cities
like Sydney and Brisbane, the number of particles per cm³ is much
less. Still, people with health problems will be badly affected
there too.
Anyway, nothing can stop me from going to that show. Who knows, with
the top soil blown away I might find a meteorite on the foot path.....
Cheers
Werner Schroer
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