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Sand-nado - Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust
In yet another ripped from the movies-screen-esque event, Beijing was brought to a standstill today as a massive Interstellar-like sandstorm covered the Chinese capital in thick blanket of red dust, sparking social media discussions of the end of the world. As RT reports, The China Meteorological Administration issued a yellow sandstorm alert – the third-most serious danger level, which given the images below, makes us wonder just WTF it takes to get to a level 1 sandstorm...
Stunning!! In a city of 21 million people...
As RT reports, Some areas in the city of 21 million recorded air pollution of nearly 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter, which is considered hazardous for people’s health.
Beijing residents had to wear face masks and goggles to protect themselves from the red sand and avoid injury and respiratory problems.
The bad visibility seriously disrupted traffic, causing large traffic jams all over the capital.
Massive sandstorm rolling into central Beijing, view from our office window: pic.twitter.com/VUaz6jJV7P
— Steve George (@steve0george) April 15, 2015
Chinese internet users were quick to label the weather phenomenon ‘Sand-ageddon,’ comparing it to the end of the world.
“It’s very dirty, I feel like it is the end of the world,” one of the users was cited by South China Morning Post.
Sandstorm in Beijing, it appears. pic.twitter.com/GfjThxtEgE
— Ben Ross (@BenRoss) April 15, 2015
While another person on social networks wrote that “it feels like we are living in a desert. I wonder how we can survive such bad weather.”
Despite being far from the red danger level, Wednesday’s sand storm was the strongest in the Chinese capital in 13 years.
Sandstorm, smog, willow catkins and traffic. Just another day in Beijing... pic.twitter.com/YSTELa71QA
— Li Yuan (@LiYuan6) April 15, 2015
Besides Beijing, 11 other provinces in the north of the country were impacted by the storm, which led to electricity blackouts and chaos on the roads.
Sandstorms are a common event in China in the spring, with the dust originating from the outer edge of deserts in Mongolia, northern China and the Hexi Corridor.
For those bored by #Beijing pollution, behold the #Beijing sandstorm. pic.twitter.com/qt1O5Sv47K
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisctv) April 15, 2015
Beijing is considered among the most polluted cities in the planet, with environmental watchdog Chinese Hazardous saying on Thursday that air particles, which cause asthma and breathing problems, were more than double the national target in the capital.
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Ah, looks like the car washes in L.A. will have lots of business next weekend.
this really 'aint a big deal in china... the smog or pollution example is quite apt, at least in terms of acceptance and normalcy lol
it's like a small tornado in the us midwest, i guess? not a big deal there but if they saw that outside beijing... or la, ny, for that matter, pretty fucking shocking lol
sandstorm in north china just like a bad winter storm in ny ;/ pretty fucking epic/scary if you've never seen one tho ahhaha
they must be so relieved to finally breathe some fresh air
You have to give the Chinese some credit. They've planted trees over hundreds of square miles of desert to try to stop the advance of the Gobi.
red china.
You have to give the Chinese some credit... No wait. Scratch that, reverse that.
Nothing to see here, seriously.
the uglier it gets the moar children are born. for the love of god close your legs and put your dicks away.
"red china"
I was thinking "yelllow horde"
haha touche
I saw sand storms like this when we were in the Saudi desert during Desert Storm but we were in a fucking desert!!! China is becoming the most polluted country on earth and they sign all the agreements on pollution, get applauded by all the feel good eco-weenies, but go right on destroying themselves because their latest five year plan demands it.....
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So, let me see if I have this right..
If one of our members (some that have contributed greatly for many years) makes an off comment about a hyper-sensitive group of people they are banned, and all traces of them are removed from the system.
If you are an obnoxious spamming jackass, you are allowed to stay and peddle your crap here with no consequences.
Just great.
You listening Tyler? You fuckbot.
Somebody please start a website where all the banned ZH folks can post whatever the fuck they want. You know, like ZH was a few years ago?It's time this site dies. It's played out. I'm not smart enough to do this so I am asking for your help.
Create a sub on reddit and promote it.
it's called /pol/ on 8chan
is that $92/hr after taxes?
Before the pimp gets his cut....
Looks like Phoenix, AZ
looks like the dust & sand storms (haboob) that we get in Arizona and Texas from time to time...
Exactly. Fact is it might knock some of that smog down when that sand passes through or settles down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+haboob+photos&espv=2&biw=1280&bi...
This is the biggest pollution problem SINCE LEEMAN BROTHERS!!!
Well ~ I'm kinda thinking... [vis-a-vis] Across Dimensional Gravity... [u kno ~ of the 'Luciferian' type]
These models suggest that whilst most particles emitted in our 3-brane stay confined to it, gravitons can escape... If they were able to radiate off arbitrarily far away, that would mean the strength of the gravitational force would fall off with the cube of distance rather than the square as we observe [based, without elaboration, on our dimensional limitations]...
OTOH ~ Others may be thinking along the lines of 'kissing orgasms' & 'home schooling'...
U just NEVER kno...
I gave a paramour one of those kissing orgasms once...
Her huge breasts heaved and shuddered in the most unbelievable way. I was sure that I was finally gonna get into those tights in just a few moments... I sucked on her tongue even harder as she arched her back and...
...then she threw up in my mouth.
She cackled and clucked like a weird old hen while apologizing -and admitted that she had just had a huge juicy oxygen deprivation enhanced orgasm.
I made point of entering her from behind when we started actually having sex regularly.
I think she knew why...
Thanks for sharing that!
& now... NAURALLY... I'll allow EVERY READER to decide 4 themselves whether [or NOT], 'kissing orgasms' may or may not be the PANACEA [Notwithstanding the 'homely/granny' COEFFICIENT MULTIPLE]......
Was her name Hillary?
No ~ It was MS. MICRO MIFFED CREATIN HILLARY...
No. Her name most assuredly was not Hillary.
I'd better not mention her name. She is already gonna be super pissed if she happens to read my account of our face sucking and heavy petting...
She is a really sweet woman actually. I haven't seen her in a while.
I might have to check up on that scene now that I think of it...
Most of you shlubs would go nuts for a hotty like her. & she would be worth it lemme tell ya.
I'm a smooth motherfucker where it comes to the ladies and score 'out of my league' with the fast talk, fast hands ...and oxygen deprivation techniques.
Oh, yes..!
To this end, we shall urge proposals extending the United Nations Charter to the limits of man’s exploration in the universe, reserving outer space for peaceful use, prohibiting weapons of mass destruction in space or on celestial bodies, and opening the mysteries and benefits of space to every nation. We shall propose further cooperative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bmHb3DPTIE
WB& needs to photosop some sandworms in there...
"teh spice mus fwow!" "Artreides scum!"
Dune, desert planet. Arrakis, recast with Epicanthic folds.
I wouldn't mind visiting China. Russia either for that matter. Fk, now i'm a terrorist. Oh wait, I already was.
HAARP?
I really hope China gets their shit together when it comes to air pollution. You can't even tell there is a sandstorm. The city always looks hazy like that.
Abrasive.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3043849/Mystery-surrounds-spate-...
What a shithole.
"China has some serious environmental problems"....well, no shitski
A lesser known story is the last years unprecidented heat all across Russia, from Europe to the Far East, Siberia in particular. Heat records beat any since records began. The latest news are the massive fire storms sweeping Siberia. 33 people died in the last days and 450 homes burned to the ground. People drove through flaming forests trying to escape, most made it, some did not. These fires come 100 days before the normal fire season in Siberia. Last year the northern tundra burned, two years ago Siberia burned, a year before European Russia burned. However you cut it, early snow melt, drought, wind, and heat followed by more heat, and the fires rage on. Parts of Siberia posted 2C above average last year. Parts of Siberia 5-7C above average.
You seem to know a lot about Russia ?
Some people read and know how to do Google searches, e.g.:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/14/siberia-wildfires/25...
Yeah, that's the same as being there.
/sarc
Glad I saw the Sarc. I almost unloaded on you! Ha! HA!
Thank you. Isn't it boring when people made implications just because a person does read outside the US Media circle. The Siberian Times is a good little newspaper, with an online edition in English. There was a number of extensive stories and first hand accounts of these fires in the last edition. So yes, some of us on ZH do read.
The troll makes a one or two line shot and then runs away. Notics his post, said nothing, implied something, and ran away to hide. Trolls are called trolls because they are pathetic creatures.
All of 11 weeks eh?
its only the dust blowing in from the "reef-fort" construction site
cue Catherine Mary Stewart on a motorcycle. Too obscure?
purple rain and red dust,
what next?
California in 10 years
It won't take that long. Central Valley already blows.
Here in the Desert, we're already seeing dust, it's usually still a bit damp (relatively) from winter snow/rain. We didn't get much this time. Dirt parking lot where I work has been scoured to caliche. Heavier rock/sand clumped by the wind and shiny clean with all the dust blown off. It's kind of eerie looking if you're paying attention.
And it's not that we've had 60 mph winds, which are typical, I don't think the gusts have gotten over 30.
What will happen is all the dust blown in one direction will settle. The the winds will reverse and send our dust back, along with new dust from some other part of the desert. In the meantime we'll have the ground ready to send new dust just from people walking and driving. (Lot's do motorcycles, dune buggies, plenty of dirt roads here, etc.) The dust will blow back and forth building up in proportion until we send it all down Cajon Pass, via Santa Ana Winds, in a Haboob to Hollywood.
Hollywood? I guess the end does justify the means...
My perspective of the desert comes from pictures and film. Every time I read a description of the desert I am reminded that I have never actually managed to travel that far south. I'm into car culture too and Arizona is great for southern tin. If I ever win the lottery I will tour through that region. Cajon Pass sounds pretty cool. Did John Wayne
make old westerns in that region?
Yes, and Roy Rogers. In fact this is Roy and Dale's home town (well, WAS, but they're buried here now).
Every story leads back to the USA ? Rampant "Trollification" of the Russo-Centric universe ! LOL
Over two and a half years, every opportunity I got, I was on walkabout all over souther CA deserts and chapparal. Irrespective the time, temperature, conditions, I was lost out in it. One thing I got to take from it was being confronted with inhospitible condition and direct realizations of what it would mean to exist there without the benefits/trappings of modern technoculture. To find at a mile high, surrounded by cacti and yuccas, no water in sight, shade only under a rock, a single single maturing gourd on a filament of green squash plant. Sand polished landscapes, with spikes [cholla luv yu long time baybe!], dead quiet nights under the canopy ... priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw
Not my problem. Sand on.
Yes, the Gobi. I'm glad someone finally mentioned it. There used to be camel caravans into the city from up north. My mother-in-law grew up in Beijing in the 1940's and saw camels in the streets of the city commonly. I myself have seen camels raised as pets on the outskirts of the city, sort of like how they raise Llamas in the Sierra foothills in California.
need to use some graphene-based desal units to help that desert bloom....all powered by SMRs (small modular reactors)
Hey! A little HAARP blast in the eastern Southwest deserts would make some mind-bending cover for some mind-fucking things when JADE and MATT HELM get all worked up this summer! My idea! Do I get a ribbon or a check or anything?
Ronald, Nob Hill, S. F.
P.S. I think my neighbor Mel is growing pot and selling it to old ladies!
Moar Ipods, your sand has been delivered.
I think we just found SpaceX more recruits to sent to Mars!
Anything beats that sandstorm crap in the vid. Long TSLA
hire all the immigrants and H1-Bs you want..
please?
Level raised to Ludicrous, teetering on Plaid.
The photos resemble the Asian stockmarkets on Monday, HK time.
In case you missed it:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-17/chinese-stocks-are-still-crashing
for TONS more detail, check this article (German - use Google translate). Things will get UGLY!! (unless you can short China, now possible, YMMV!)
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/04/18/der-fluch-des-blin...
Yellow sea, yellow river, yellow loess soil, yellow people,YELLOW dust .... got it ?
Mars Attacks!
How do you "batter" with a blanket .... like a pillow fight .... and the DUST is yellow .... not red .... sand stays close to the ground .... like kicking a can down the road !
I knew I should invested in that canned Air franchise
Someone's in a heap of trouble: the pixie dust scattered worldwide for years to prop up markets was supposed to be invisible -- somebody panicked after Fri’s pullback and grabbed the wrong box.
We used to have these a few times a month. This is the first one we've had for about 10 years, and it was nothing to write home about. But hey, all the FOBs who think they can pretend they are journalists need to write about something I guess. A REAL sandstorm leaves about half an inch of bright yellow dust all over everything. This left nothing.
I can't quite grasp how the pollution could get that bad there...I'm assuming it's mix of all the toxic in the air and the sand from all that desert. When I lived in Korea briefly we would get some leftovers from that shit in the summer
try New Delhi for pollution:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32352722
Ah So, Grasshopper. Good Chinaman Dead Chinaman.