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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Dramatic photos of a dust storm
Whatever issues you're facing in life, count your lucky stars you don't live here. These are photos of a dust storm approaching a Chinese city on the edge of the Gobi desert.
Go look at the photos in the news article - they're much more impressive because they're larger.
I've been in a sand storm. You aren't going to accomplish much of anything but other than that it isn't that bad, well if you have a decent place to hunker down. I would not want to be out on some sort of a caravan. Navigation is next to impossible. I guess if it was life or death and you stared at the compass and dead reckoned without walking off a cliff it MIGHT work, but that is an ugly scenario and a good plan to get totally and absolutely lost. You might be able to walk a short distance from shelter to shelter in a place you know quite well.
I think these photos show a diorama; the buildings look to simple and somehow "wrong" - and they don't fit with what I saw when i was in China or what I have seen of other desert cities in China. I don't know if the dust cloud is real or photo shopped. Chemechie
I've been in a sand storm. You aren't going to accomplish much of anything but other than that it isn't that bad, well if you have a decent place to hunker down. I would not want to be out on some sort of a caravan. Navigation is next to impossible. I guess if it was life or death and you stared at the compass and dead reckoned without walking off a cliff it MIGHT work, but that is an ugly scenario and a good plan to get totally and absolutely lost. You might be able to walk a short distance from shelter to shelter in a place you know quite well.
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ReplyDeleteI thought that was the guy down the street sweeping out his garage.
Bill Smith
makes me think of the "dust bowl" photos of the depression years...
ReplyDeleteI think these photos show a diorama; the buildings look to simple and somehow "wrong" - and they don't fit with what I saw when i was in China or what I have seen of other desert cities in China.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the dust cloud is real or photo shopped.
Chemechie