Beijing shrouded in orange dust!

[Vidboy10]

Beijing has been shrouded in orange dust as a strong sandstorm blew hundreds of miles from drought-struck northern China to the nation's capital.

In Tiananmen Square, clouds of dust obscured monuments, while visitors wore masks to avoid the dust and soil in windy conditions.

A level five pollution warning was issued in the hazardous conditions, and people were urged to stay indoors.

The storm also hit Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei.

On Saturday it had spread over an area of 810,000 sq km with a population of 250 million, official news agency Xinhua reported.

In the 35 hours up to 1100 on Saturday (0300 GMT), 270 million people in an area of 1.8 million sq km had been affected, it said.

Saturday's storm was expected to last until Monday, the meteorological agency said in a statement on its website.

Sandstorms are common during spring in the dry north as temperatures rise and clouds of dust are stirred up and blown across China, to South Korea and Japan and even as far as the US, AFP news agency reported.

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[Theraima]

COOOOL!


No but seriously, it would be cool to be there. Tho for the people who live there it sucks.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

They never get it easy in Beijing. One day it's a smog warning, the next day a sandstorm!

While it's dangerous, it looks kinda cool in the photo.

 

[BoxShot]

They never get it easy in Beijing. One day it's a smog warning, the next day a sandstorm!

While it's dangerous, it looks kinda cool in the photo.

I'll agree it looks pretty cool but it isn't very good for them.

 

[Slyakin]

Man, seeing everything in orange must be tiring. Now, green on the other hand...

 

[B-Blue]

You guys think this shit is cool?! It's fucking horrible! We had a sand storm yesterday from 3 AM to 5 PM!!!!
FUCKING DUST IS EVERYWHERE! All my consoles are collecting dust

. My fucking wii and 360 and all my handhelds! My PC and laptop! I'm really tired of this shit. I have to use like 4 compressed air cans to clean all of 'em

Here's a couple of pics I took from a different sand storm a couple of months back. It was the worst sandstom ever!

I took this one very quickly. Dust was getting in my eyes and in my fucking mouth.

This was a few minutes before it hits. It was going very very very slow! LIKE IT'S TEASING US OR SOMETHING

fucking ,. thing,,,, sucks.;;; balls

 

[updowners]

Makes for great photos though

If you're into that sorta thing...

 

[Advi]

Assuming your eyes and mouth were protected, it would be pretty amusing to watch.

 

[DeadLocked]

Pretty surreal

God save you Beijing

 

[Celice]

Yeah, this shit really does suck to live through. It's like pollution, but in your face and fucking your eyes and throat and ears.

 

[Edgedancer]

I remember the dust storm we got in sydney a year or so ago. It was great. Sure it was bad for people with asthma but I liked it. I will admit that the first thing I thought of was that it looked like the end of the world. Dunno why but I did.

 

[RupeeClock]

I remember the dust storm we got in sydney a year or so ago. It was great. Sure it was bad for people with asthma but I liked it. I will admit that the first thing I thought of was that it looked like the end of the world. Dunno why but I did.

That photo is beautiful.

I didn't know Beijing had sandstorms like this...can't even imagine what it'd be like to go out.

 

[pitoui]

I remember the dust storm we got in sydney a year or so ago. It was great. Sure it was bad for people with asthma but I liked it. I will admit that the first thing I thought of was that it looked like the end of the world. Dunno why but I did.

Hell yeah! I remember waking up and having a look out of my window and all I could see was red/orange. I really did think it was the end of the world! HAHA

 

[Mangofett]

I bet shining a green laser thru it would look awesome

 

[Dangy]

I bet shining a green laser thru it would look awesome

I was just gonna say that.

It'd be epic.

 

[Bladexdsl]

we had that here a while ago in brisbane it looked cool yeah but if you went outside you'd choke. and pretty much everything you owned inside and out gets covered in orange fucking shit!

 

[fgghjjkll]

When i first woke up, i thought it was an apocolypse

 

[Raki]

Wow, those pictures are gorgeous, but that dust must suck...I wouldn't want to clean that lol

 

[Deleted_171835]

Cool!

I'll never get to see this in Canada. We still get snowstorms, though.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i wanna say something else about it but it will lead into another discussion... PM me if u wanna know
i remembered australia by it... looks like a sand tsunami