Dust storm in Australia

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Skies have cleared over Sydney and Brisbane after an intense dust storm swept through the cities, causing traffic chaos and leading to health concerns.

The spectacular blanket of orange and yellow pollution cloaked parts of New South Wales and Queensland and was easily big enough to show up on satellite photos from space.

The dust storm also hampered firefighting efforts in Queensland, where more than 20 blazes raged around Brisbane.​

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More photos here and here.

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Bit daft really aint they, prone to those huge bush fires, so they make houses/towns out of wood. :D

Ive always wondered why, when the news reports bush fires destroying millions of homes over there, wiping out towns etc.., as you would think they'd have cottoned on by now :p

Like all those daft buggers who have built cities on those fault lines, prone to earthquakes you know here, ahh so what, lets whack 50 million 200 story skyscrapers up on em, be fine. :D

I'm not sure why you're raising the issue of bushfires in a thread that's actually about dust storms. :confused:

But to address your query: most of the wood houses were built by the people who first established these villages ~100 years ago, when nobody was really thinking much about bushfires. Having said that, most of the houses destroyed in the bushfires were actually brick and stone.

Here's a brick church in Kingslake:

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And here's a brick house from the same village:

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If the fire is big enough, it won't care what your house is made of.
 
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