'Red Wave' Dust Storm Hits Australia

[lechat]

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the only thing impressive about our dust storms is they are red, they are red obviously because our inner deserts have red sand due to higher iron content

The redness is caused by iron in the sand.

The iron comes from the blood of drop-bear victims.

Huge winds form around these blood deserts where the drop bears live, when the drop bears get blown/float up there in those dust clouds they stay up there as long as they can, just waiting to swoop down and catch their next victim so that the cycle can continue.

Locals know all about the danger, but the poor tourists never stand a chance...

have you not seen the pro tourism ads?
seriously man every australian by now should know not to talk about drop bears in fear of scaring away potential tourists

 

[Ix Rebound]

when i read the title i thought "sweet another huge dust cloud, the last one was sweet"
then i read that it's all the way over in WA, and now im disappointed
i love how sudden changes in weather can affect your day (or week) for better or for worse, (though better is always, well, better)

 

[Frezzato]

-SNIP- ...We usually have more australian fatalities per day due to drop bears and platypuses

The iron comes from the blood of drop-bear victims.

I read your posts and was like, what the hell is a 'drop bear'? Is it local slang for ticks? Are the ticks really huge over there? Or is it some other horrible creature that only Aussies know about? Then I looked it up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear].

I LOL'd.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Clearly, evidence that despite Australian's most fervent arguments, Australia actively hates life (mainly outsider life) and normality between it's weather and it's animals.

Damn dust cloud looks like a wall of blood.

 

[Vhite]

If there was a world map of Earth made in Dwarf Fortress, Australia would be the purple area. They now even got the mist, I just hope this one doesn't turn people into undead.

 

[LetalisK]

Ooo, sand storms. Those are always fun. The ones I've been in everything outside looks deep orange and then when you go inside the lights and everything look blue. Like someone slapped a movie filter on reality.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Sorry to spoil the mystique, but tourists are more likely to die from exposure after abandoning a broken down vehicle than be killed by something that will look impressive when carved on a tombstone. Most of our bushland looks like somebody went overboard with the clone tool when placing eucalyptus trees that want to be set on fire. And if you're stuck in the middle of nowhere with only the side of your car for protection from the sun, there is absolutely no guarantee that if you walk in any particular direction that you will find anything other than heat stroke and eventual death.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Damn dust cloud looks like a wall of blood.

. . . The hell kind of orange-ass blood do you have?

OT:

Did anyone else instantly think of Spec Ops: The Line?

"G'day, mite! Welcome t' Doobai!"

 

[Arakasi]

Oh god damn it not again.
Last time this happened I had roughly the following dialogue with my mother:
Me- "Hey Mum, shouldn't we close the window"
Mum- "No, why?"
Me- "Because I'm pretty sure all that orangy-red stuff is a dust storm, I just saw it on the news."
Mum- "Nah, it's not a dust storm, and I'm enjoying the breeze, leave the window open."
Me- "I'm pretty sure it's a dust storm, but alright".

Naturally by the time I got home everything was covered in dust. Silly mother.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

have you not seen the pro tourism ads?
seriously man every australian by now should know not to talk about drop bears in fear of scaring away potential tourists

-SNIP- ...We usually have more australian fatalities per day due to drop bears and platypuses

The iron comes from the blood of drop-bear victims.

I read your posts and was like, what the hell is a 'drop bear'? Is it local slang for ticks? Are the ticks really huge over there? Or is it some other horrible creature that only Aussies know about? Then I looked it up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear].

I LOL'd.

You won't be laughing when the drop bears get you. They'll probably send the bush rangers after me for saying this, but I can't ease my conscience on this matter without telling someone out there the truth...

Tourism Australia censors pages like wikipedia and spread other countless web pages circulating the notion that drop bears are a joke just so people won't know the truth. They've been doing it for generations, ever since... 'the big drop'.

You see, if the dropbears aren't getting the blood of the tourists out in Australia's more scenic outback, then they'll start migrating towards the urban area's in search of prey, feasting on the Australian population instead.

That's why the aboriginal people of Australia remained nomads, they could never settle for too long in one place or else the drop bears would get them. England started sending convicts to Australia as a death-sentence after seeing the dropbears in action. Eventually they found out that as long as they keep getting food, the dropbears stay put. We're not getting convicts from england any more obviously, so the government has to find other methods.

You may recall that untill recently Australians dollar has been weaker than the US dollar. Now, on it's own the Ausi dollar is actually worth quite a bit more than it's US counterpart, but the government got into massive dept trying to deal with the drop bears in urban areas.
Some time ago tourism had died down, and the government didn't respect the ferocious drop bears. It had been so long since they had moved that the government of the day thought they would stay there, after all they stayed put through drought, bushfire and flood... maybe they didn't need to keep sending victims in there after all.

They were wrong of course. Driven by their insatiable hunger that was no longer being catered to, the drop bears moved into the towns, and then onto the cities. They'd hang out at the tops of the tallest buildings, and swoop down on commuters and other hapless victims. No one can fight off a drop bear.

The drop bears took a liking to these more densely populated areas. The cost in both money and lives trying to drive away these dropbears back into the outback had a lasting effect on autralia and it's economy, and only now after many generations is our currency finally getting back up to par. In truth it will probably never reach the value it once was... not while the dropbears are still out there, not while tourism australia has to keep spending so much to attract new 'visitors'.

Worst of all, when the rest of the world faces econamic harship tourism begins to slow down. Recently they have been driving campaigns for more 'local tourism' from australian residents. These are dark days inde-

- I am ofcourse, completely joking about everything I just said, cause we australians just love to JOKE like that, about silly JOKES. Australia is a wonderful place, you should come here for a holiday really soon. Right now even.

Sincerely, the Australian you were just talking to and continuing to talk to now.

 

[VanQ]

No no! It should be 'whatever'! It should be 'Oh? Well, we've had bigger.' Show your Australian superiority to the rest of us worlders.

Heh, if you insist. That's nothing compared to our Fire Tornade from last year. No, seriously, I'm not joking. It actually happened. It's like a frickin' Charizard went on a rampage.

 

[Squilookle]

Yes, yet another Aussie here only just hearing about this, via the Escapist.

I didn't even know this was happening until I read this thread. That's how memorable it is.

The rest of the world is like "that's a two-hundred-foot-tall wall of sand!" and Australia is like "whatever"

Couldn't stop laughing at this- I could just imagine some sort of dismissive hand wave going on as well...

 

[malestrithe]

Lesser know fact about Australia: Mars comes to visit over the winter.

 

[Frezzato]

Spoiler: hidden

have you not seen the pro tourism ads?
seriously man every australian by now should know not to talk about drop bears in fear of scaring away potential tourists

-SNIP- ...We usually have more australian fatalities per day due to drop bears and platypuses

The iron comes from the blood of drop-bear victims.

I read your posts and was like, what the hell is a 'drop bear'? Is it local slang for ticks? Are the ticks really huge over there? Or is it some other horrible creature that only Aussies know about? Then I looked it up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear].

I LOL'd.

You won't be laughing when the drop bears get you. They'll probably send the bush rangers after me for saying this, but I can't ease my conscience on this matter without telling someone out there the truth...

Tourism Australia censors pages like wikipedia and spread other countless web pages circulating the notion that drop bears are a joke just so people won't know the truth. They've been doing it for generations, ever since... 'the big drop'.

You see, if the dropbears aren't getting the blood of the tourists out in Australia's more scenic outback, then they'll start migrating towards the urban area's in search of prey, feasting on the Australian population instead.

That's why the aboriginal people of Australia remained nomads, they could never settle for too long in one place or else the drop bears would get them. England started sending convicts to Australia as a death-sentence after seeing the dropbears in action. Eventually they found out that as long as they keep getting food, the dropbears stay put. We're not getting convicts from england any more obviously, so the government has to find other methods.

You may recall that untill recently Australians dollar has been weaker than the US dollar. Now, on it's own the Ausi dollar is actually worth quite a bit more than it's US counterpart, but the government got into massive dept trying to deal with the drop bears in urban areas.
Some time ago tourism had died down, and the government didn't respect the ferocious drop bears. It had been so long since they had moved that the government of the day thought they would stay there, after all they stayed put through drought, bushfire and flood... maybe they didn't need to keep sending victims in there after all.

They were wrong of course. Driven by their insatiable hunger that was no longer being catered to, the drop bears moved into the towns, and then onto the cities. They'd hang out at the tops of the tallest buildings, and swoop down on commuters and other hapless victims. No one can fight off a drop bear.

The drop bears took a liking to these more densely populated areas. The cost in both money and lives trying to drive away these dropbears back into the outback had a lasting effect on autralia and it's economy, and only now after many generations is our currency finally getting back up to par. In truth it will probably never reach the value it once was... not while the dropbears are still out there, not while tourism australia has to keep spending so much to attract new 'visitors'.

Worst of all, when the rest of the world faces econamic harship tourism begins to slow down. Recently they have been driving campaigns for more 'local tourism' from australian residents. These are dark days indeed...

I've been watching a lot of fascinating documentaries about Australia like Rogue [http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv220/horrorreviews/tops/Rogue.jpg], Black Water [http://www.hudsonlee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/rogue-2007-4.jpg], and Wolf Creek [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PfhLI4Dtr98/UGfy4onbD-I/AAAAAAAAXmQ/iF3M9bOaYcM/s1600/Wolf+Creek+9.jpg]...I even found this footage of a Drop Bear attack. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WD_Nh_rboQ]
Horrifying! So what you're telling me is that Melissa George isn't an actual person but a lifelike lure in the shape of Melissa George, kind of like an Anglerfish [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JRgQxc2OIgg/Tj0Dj48_5AI/AAAAAAAAAT4/9-N45IcDMFQ/s1600/Fining+Nemo+Angler+Fish.jpg]?

Great, so there's Drop Bears in Australia and Devils in Canada. Maybe it's not so bad here in Florida--oh no, wait [http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/26/miami-police-confrontation-men-leaves-1-dead-1-hurt/].

 

[lechat]

Spoiler

have you not seen the pro tourism ads?
seriously man every australian by now should know not to talk about drop bears in fear of scaring away potential tourists

-SNIP- ...We usually have more australian fatalities per day due to drop bears and platypuses

The iron comes from the blood of drop-bear victims.

I read your posts and was like, what the hell is a 'drop bear'? Is it local slang for ticks? Are the ticks really huge over there? Or is it some other horrible creature that only Aussies know about? Then I looked it up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear].

I LOL'd.

You won't be laughing when the drop bears get you. They'll probably send the bush rangers after me for saying this, but I can't ease my conscience on this matter without telling someone out there the truth...

Tourism Australia censors pages like wikipedia and spread other countless web pages circulating the notion that drop bears are a joke just so people won't know the truth. They've been doing it for generations, ever since... 'the big drop'.

You see, if the dropbears aren't getting the blood of the tourists out in Australia's more scenic outback, then they'll start migrating towards the urban area's in search of prey, feasting on the Australian population instead.

That's why the aboriginal people of Australia remained nomads, they could never settle for too long in one place or else the drop bears would get them. England started sending convicts to Australia as a death-sentence after seeing the dropbears in action. Eventually they found out that as long as they keep getting food, the dropbears stay put. We're not getting convicts from england any more obviously, so the government has to find other methods.

You may recall that untill recently Australians dollar has been weaker than the US dollar. Now, on it's own the Ausi dollar is actually worth quite a bit more than it's US counterpart, but the government got into massive dept trying to deal with the drop bears in urban areas.
Some time ago tourism had died down, and the government didn't respect the ferocious drop bears. It had been so long since they had moved that the government of the day thought they would stay there, after all they stayed put through drought, bushfire and flood... maybe they didn't need to keep sending victims in there after all.

They were wrong of course. Driven by their insatiable hunger that was no longer being catered to, the drop bears moved into the towns, and then onto the cities. They'd hang out at the tops of the tallest buildings, and swoop down on commuters and other hapless victims. No one can fight off a drop bear.

The drop bears took a liking to these more densely populated areas. The cost in both money and lives trying to drive away these dropbears back into the outback had a lasting effect on autralia and it's economy, and only now after many generations is our currency finally getting back up to par. In truth it will probably never reach the value it once was... not while the dropbears are still out there, not while tourism australia has to keep spending so much to attract new 'visitors'.

Worst of all, when the rest of the world faces econamic harship tourism begins to slow down. Recently they have been driving campaigns for more 'local tourism' from australian residents. These are dark days inde-

- I am ofcourse, completely joking about everything I just said, cause we australians just love to JOKE like that, about silly JOKES. Australia is a wonderful place, you should come here for a holiday really soon. Right now even.

Sincerely, the Australian you were just talking to and continuing to talk to now.

thats right ppl there is no such thing as drop bears please visit our lovely country and if it's too hot for you stand in the shade of a gum tree

Spoiler: for Some_weirdGuy

think we fooled em?

 

[Frezzato]

Okay, enough about horrible face-eating drug addicts. Time for something completely off-topic.

There is one thing that still floors me every time I see it, and yes, it lives in Australia.

Ladies and gents, I present to you, Australia's beautiful Lyrebird:

 

[Arakasi]

Okay, enough about horrible face-eating drug addicts. Time for something completely off-topic.

There is one thing that still floors me every time I see it, and yes, it lives in Australia.

Ladies and gents, I present to you, Australia's beautiful Lyrebird:

That was brilliant, thanks for sharing.
I also live in Australia, and have never heard of it

 

[CaptainKoala]

It's finally happening!

Not exactly Dubai, but close enough.