Boxing Day dust storm.....

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Boxing Day .............hhhmmmm..........I'd been keeping an eye out to the south as a storm was down that way............

Lightning had been going down so was keeping an eye out for fires.............

"smoke" had gone up a few times then disappeared.............

we were watching this develop and to start thought it was "smoke" but then the red came into it and we knew it was dusting picking up from winds in the storm..........phone calls to another fire brigade captain revealed they were in the thick of a storm and during another call them I could hear the hail hitting............

5.55pm

6.03pm

6.04pm

6.05pm

6.11pm

at this point the light went really dark and weird colours the dust was so thick.............

6.19pm

thought it was all over but started blowing from the left of the photo but nothing like what had been blowing................
Boxing Day involved cleaning after this.............thankfully I remembered the 5 loads of washing on the clothes line before it hit..........
heres a little video I took when it hit.................

I was a bit out of breath in this video running around putting things away.........
Back soon with Christmas news..............
got to download photos from my big camera........
Catch you later.......

Chookyblue......