Dust Storm Video: Dust Storm Turns Sky Black In Broken Hill, Australia (VIDEO)

For the second time this week, Sydney, Australia was hit by a huge dust storm Saturday, causing the city to glow red. Reuters reported that the first storm on Wednesday, Sept. 23, carried 23 million tons of dust into the eastern Australian city.

While the dust storm photos are stunning, perhaps the most striking images come from video shot by a woman in Broken Hill, Australia, a small, central western mining town about 15 hours from Sydney.

Within seconds, the dust storm totally obscures the sunlight, turning the frame pitch black, and worrying the woman behind the camcorder.

Agence-France Presse reports that Broken Hill was in "the eye of the storm" on Wednesday.

Below are photos from Wednesday's dust storm in Sydney.

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[violimo]

Must have been real freaky for the kid watching it.

[lazercat2008]

You sent us Rupert Murdock and Mel Gibson and now God is punishing you Australia. Repent!

[OMG1]

I went through this when stationed in 29 Palms, California. It looked like a storm coming across the desert with lightening and and wild crazy thunder. It wasn't until it hit that people understood what it was and by that time it was too late. The sand was everywhere clogging up engines, a/c, swamp coolers and turning the sky pitch black. It was a dramatic experience.

[markstl3828]

i still would like to see the country some day. Mate !

[USADownUnder]

Excuse me Huffington Post...

As a Sydney-sider, I can testify to the fact that on Saturday AND Sunday the weather in Sydney was quite beautiful, a tad bit cool and very windy. But the sky's were blue with lovely white clouds overhead.

And I'd also like to point out, that Broken Hill is no where near close to Sydney. Broken Hill is located in the far west of the state of New South Wales, whereas Sydney is located along the coast. The approximate distance between Sydney and Broken Hill is about 590 miles.

It's articles like this that just confirms to international readers that some of my fellow Americans don't know what a map is - much less how to read the darn thing!

[lazercat2008]

When did they move the bridge?

[Boomerwoman]

The comments in the article clearly say that Broken Hill is 15 hours from Sydney. I guess it confirms that some people don't know geography and some people don't read.

[NedThaIllOne]

"For the second time this week, Sydney, Australia was hit by a huge dust storm Saturday, causing the city to glow red."

[greg556]

Nice use of the dimmer switch on her camera.

I loved "it's like dark time"! That mysterious time when the sun disappears for 8 hours!

[Fergie1]

greg556 , Don't think sarcasm is your strong suit!
You're not doing your country proud mate!

[USLabor]

Fergie, you're kind of cranky. Are you not getting enough sleep during dark time?

[Nyland8]

15 hours from Sydney ?? !! 15 HOURS ?? At what speed?

15 hours by what? ... mule? bush plane? bicycle?

How about kilometers? Or miles perhaps? That might give one an impression of where this happened. Or is "where" no longer one of the journalist's sacred "W's" ?

[greg556]

Australia is a big country, in case you haven't heard. Uh, mate.

In Australia, something like "15 hours" always means "in the last of the V8s."

[Fergie1]

Broken Hill is 684 miles west of Sydney (1,100 kilometers). This is a large Country.
But agree that journalism doesn't seem to think it necessary to give the facts or tell the whole story any more. They're more interested in hiding them.......makes a better headline.

[zell]

Those of us who grew up in West Texas are familiar with these kinds of storms. In the mid-1950s, in the Texas Panhandle, we had a storm like this one in Australia. We were sent home from school at lunch time because of the dust storm. Most of our parents raised chickens in those days.........It was black as night and the chickens went to roost. I lived in West Texas for 21 years, until I graduated from college. I have seen many dust storms, but I have never seen another storm like that one. It is still fresh in my memory today.

[DallasDon]

"It's the End of Days!" According to Sarah Palin.

And I thought twisters, sandstorms and dirt devils were bad in Texas. How do you go about removing 23 million tons of sand from a city? That's one really big cat box.

Where o' where is PresidentR­obertBooth when we need him?

We're all gonna Die!

[alienator]

I wander if entire town can get buried and lost forever in such a monstrous storm.

[czs5056]

if the storm is big enough then yes

[timewaster2dcore]

Another handiwork of white man in Australia. The aborigines were hunter-gatherers and did not disturb the soil because they understood how fragile it was. But when white man came, they ignored aborigines' better knowledge of the land's frailty (haughtiness--why would a white man listen to savages?). Well, they cleared the land and disturbed the environment greatly. The few trees that served as wind breakers were cut down so they could farm. Frail soil was exposed and now it's being blown around.

Good!!

[MMIIXX]

what a crock ,the aborigines have been walking around in the wilderness for forty thousand years .Do you suggest we (modern citizens of the world) all become nomads ?
And just so you know ,Australia is one of the most multi cultural countries on the planet so to say "Another handiwork of white man" is rubbish !

[weatherwaxx]

You don't know much about Australia, do you?

[timewaster2dcore]

I don't think you know what you are talking about. And your assertion, ""do you suggest we (modern citizens of the world) all become nomads?"" is ignorantly arrogant. That's one of the haughty actions that started the whole environmental degradation in the first place.

Aborigines knew the potential effects of disturbing the frail Australian soil and adjusted their ways of living to it by gathering and hunting stuff, while the "modern citizens of the world" (how ridiculous that sounds?!) were unable to know what effects their reckless actions would have. Calling "whites" modern citizens of the world and thus implying that aborigines are "archaic" citizens of the world is very low, even for you. All human beings are modern citizens of the world with diversified ways of living.

[seajayh]

Is there any human record of this happening before down there?

[KOisGod]

Australia is the canary in the global warming mine.

[bbriani3842]

I can't imagine what this does to an internal combustion engine . . . no air filter can keep this crud out of your crankcase. . .

[HekmabaJuzimax]

"Oh my gosh! The sky's turned completely­....Africa­n American!"

[bbriani3842]

And yet, my comments get moderated and scrubbed. . .

[moseyon]

No rasism in USA ??

[weatherwaxx]

Better to keep your mouth shut and look stupid than open it and prove it.

[yodaveg]

What's wrong with you?