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Did you see Sydney on the news today?

The famous Australian city by the harbor is covered in orange dust. Not just a cover of dust, no it looks like a heavy fog of dust… the air is thick with it. From the quai you can’t even see the world known Opera House, and this landmark is not easily to be overlooked. My whole TV screen was orange as the reporter told us about this phenomenon that is being a new plague for the citizens of the city. Geez, if they don’t have bush fires or dingo’s in or near Sydney, they have other troubles with nature! Very dry in the bush, heavy winds, and Sydney has ‘fun’ again

I was in Sydney many years ago - January 1993, I had to look it up for you - and man, I really loved being there. I loved being in Australia, period. Travelled around for 6 weeks and had a lot of fun, both with Australians and other travellers. One of my best vacations ever. So you understand everytime Australia is in the news, I pay a little extra attention.

The people of Sydney took the orange veil with their laid back look on life. A 72 year old man said he never had seen it before, I think that counts for something. Everybody was wearing masks and shawls for their mouth and some were commenting that their throat hurt “a little”. Now I am an asthma person myself and my heart goes out to all people over there who have respirational problems. While the orange fog may be cleared in a couple of days, the dust will still be in their lungs, and they’ll suffer much longer.

Granted, this item was only 1 minute in the news, while the life of the people of Sydney was totally derailed, and it probably won’t kill anybody except for some people with heavy lung problems maybe - whose life expectancy wasn’t too optimistic anyway. But this little piece of news told us again that whatever we do to live our life in a nice and comfortable way, whatever invention is waiting for us around the corner, whatever new electronic gadget finds its way to the market, it’s nature that goes it’s own way, whether we like it or not. Nothing we can do about it, except cleaning up the mess…

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