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I woke up this morning and could taste dust started wondering what the hell i did last night lol

just my luck i washed the car yesterday too and now its an orange skyline even though it was in the garage :P

they canned the drags too which sucks was looking forward to having a run tonight.

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I woke up this morning and could taste dust started wondering what the hell i did last night lol

just my luck i washed the car yesterday too and now its an orange skyline even though it was in the garage :P

they canned the drags too which sucks was looking forward to having a run tonight.

Yea so much stuff has been canned today cos of this dust storm aparently like 4 or 5 gigs booked today have been canned just cos the clients have decided they dont want to hold an event today cos people wont attend.

i wish my gig would do that but no mine just keeps going dust or not.

In all my 49 years on this particular planet I have only ever experienced such a dust/sand/soil storm once and I was like about 9.

Bloody amazing.

I painted the radicals front splitter in the garage last night in yellow and expected it to be brown when I got home,,,but no all is good and my big puppy is clean..

Go figure,,,.

Some poor farmers will be crying,,,where's all my top soil?. I feel for them unfortunate buggers.

Neil.

In all my 49 years on this particular planet I have only ever experienced such a dust/sand/soil storm once and I was like about 9.

If my memory serves me correctly, it was 49 yrs & 9 mnths ago that there was another big dust storm like this one.

TV programming shut down late at night.

Dust storm was raging outside.

Your parents went to bed early & Neil was conceived ! :D

Some poor farmers will be crying,,,where's all my top soil?. I feel for them unfortunate buggers.

as far as I'm concerned they can come over and take all their shit back!

If my memory serves me correctly, it was 49 yrs & 9 mnths ago that there was another big dust storm like this one.

...Your parents went to bed early & Neil was conceived ! :D

ewwww

Was outside working in it from 5am till 2pm. Got halfway up the mountains by 8am and had light rain which got rid of the dust but made my truck look like I had been driving through mud.

The worst part of the day was the wind up the top of the mountains, I was in the back of the truck sorting out boxes and got hit by the wind side on that I actually thought another Landcruiser had smashed into me, thats how badly the truck was rocking.

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You Dang Aussies, always giving us Kiwi's your crap lol

Storm hit us (Auckland last night). Most of us woke up with a red film of crap on our cars. Was gonna take some pictures but camera batteries decided to play up GRRR

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