"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange weather tonight across New South Wales tonight is the vanguard of an invading army from Mars".
Winds eddie across the deserted streets, life all but a distant memory in this hellish post-apocalypse...
So maybe the caption was a bit of hyperbole, but this morning I woke up and really did think for a second that I had been teleported to the Red Planet during my sleep (or perhaps I'd always been there, but my memories had been altered to forget I was a secret agent working for Mars Intelligence)
The less exciting, factual, explanation is that massive winds have lifted topsoil from inland New South Wales and carried it across this great state in a huge, sub-obscuring, visibility denying dust storm. Link for people interested in facts and not my sci-fi dreams [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2693643.htm]
Suffice to say, it looks pretty damn awesome/eerie. I'll be putting up some of my own photos when I got the chance.
But for now, for anyone from elsewhere to where this is happening, feel free to discuss your own freaky natural weather phenomena, and how this dust storm stacks up against them.
For those Aussies affected by it, go ahead and stick up your own pics of this mesmerizing event or tell your own stories.
And for everyone, tell us what you would do if it actually was Mars you had woken up on.
Would you go and report the Adeptus Mechanicus, glory to the Omnissiah?
Grab a hammer and take it on those oppressive EDF pricks?
Perhaps see if you could get some snapshots of Doc Manhattan sulking?
Something else entirely?
Winds eddie across the deserted streets, life all but a distant memory in this hellish post-apocalypse...
So maybe the caption was a bit of hyperbole, but this morning I woke up and really did think for a second that I had been teleported to the Red Planet during my sleep (or perhaps I'd always been there, but my memories had been altered to forget I was a secret agent working for Mars Intelligence)
The less exciting, factual, explanation is that massive winds have lifted topsoil from inland New South Wales and carried it across this great state in a huge, sub-obscuring, visibility denying dust storm. Link for people interested in facts and not my sci-fi dreams [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2693643.htm]
Suffice to say, it looks pretty damn awesome/eerie. I'll be putting up some of my own photos when I got the chance.
But for now, for anyone from elsewhere to where this is happening, feel free to discuss your own freaky natural weather phenomena, and how this dust storm stacks up against them.
For those Aussies affected by it, go ahead and stick up your own pics of this mesmerizing event or tell your own stories.
And for everyone, tell us what you would do if it actually was Mars you had woken up on.
Would you go and report the Adeptus Mechanicus, glory to the Omnissiah?
Grab a hammer and take it on those oppressive EDF pricks?
Perhaps see if you could get some snapshots of Doc Manhattan sulking?
Something else entirely?