The Day The Sky Turned Red

The sky is falling the sky is falling....

Once upon a tomorrow, which happened to follow my yesterday, and your today, so in other words, "once upon a today for me the sky turned red." Now I know that sometimes I can be sarcastic or over imaginative, but really I am not making this up.

This morning I woke up and opened my window and the sky was red, a gloomy hazy red. I thought at first I was just too tired from sleeping and that my eyes were not focusing right. I put on my glasses and still the same thing, a red sky. I then checked weather.com and the current weather stated "blowing dust." OK fine, blowing dust fine, but why does the sky look like it is on fire. And how on earth is there any dust we had a torrential downpour of rain last night, it should not be dry enough for dust. Well meteorologists have attempted to explain this phenomenon by saying that while Sydney has been getting rain further inland there have been drought like conditions and high winds, and well those high winds with the red dust have just made it to us. But seriously it was red this morning, now more of just a hazy orange. Check out some of the pictures, so you know I am not making this up.

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5060682-5007150,00.html#

I then went downstairs to make a cup of tea and sure enough we had left our kitchen window open last night and a nice fine layer of dust was covering everything in the kitchen.

OK, so I knew that I was not crazy, but how on earth do you carry on a normal day in a weather forecast that you have never experienced before. I was chatting with Brittany on Skype and asked her how you dress for the weather of "dust." She warned me not to wear my glue shirt, or dust would stick to it. I guess that also prevents me from wearing honey, syrup, or any sticky sugary substance....dang it I really wanted to bathe in Kool-Aide this morning.

I sent James a text message this morning asking what was wrong with the weather. All of the news said that the earlier you saw the sky the redder it was, and well since he has to be at work at 7AM, he was up much earlier than me, and therefore saw a much redder sky. He responded, "I woke up this morning and thought it was the rapture."

Well, I am trying to go about living my normal life in the dust, but it is not too easy. Our administrators at the apartment have sent an email saying that we need to close all windows and doors, and if we are asthmatic try to stay inside and wear a mask. I was going to meet my friend at the gym to work out, figuring the inside would be safe from dust. Well she got there and called me and said, "don't bother walking here. The gym is closed, the whole thing is covered in dust and they have been forced to close for health reasons."

Well, I better go try to make the best of this windy, dusty, red tomorrow. I hope you are having a less windy, dusty, and a bluer yesterday, and that your weather tomorrow, is not my weather today.