Smoke gets in your eyes

[kellifer]

Or more accurately dust.

*coughs*

We're having a severe dust storm at the moment and the air is red, there's red dust covering everything including my car and we had a severe thunder storm last night.

I woke up to no hot water, no TV reception and no power in my end of the under-building car garage.

All I can think when I look outside is Silent Hill because it looks like that's where I'm living.

That, or Mars.

Eep!

Comments

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Yasminke and I have been discussing whether this is the apocalypse.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

They were playing 'End of the world as we know it' in JJJ this morning when I turned it on.

Ha!

[lark_ascends]

LOL!!

[lark_ascends]

*coughs with you* At 7:30 when my alarm initially went off the light coming in through the windows was a brilliant orange. I'm still at home, my dad shut up the house a bit after 7:30, and I blew my nose when I got up and I had red dust in it. Blergh. I think I'm not moving from the house today.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I wish I didn't have to - but lack of hot water and TV prompted me to make the trek to work because they have showers here.

I *nearly* couldn't come in because the underbuilding garage has a storm door which closed off between our section and the other side and since the power was out I didn't think I could get my car out of the garage. Darn it, you can prop the storm door open and the other side was working. Boo! :D

It was a bit skeery driving though because it really looked like red fog once I got on the M5 and they keep opening and closing the M5 because the air quality was going up and down. I snuck through in between openings.

[lark_ascends]

*nods* We have power, so we're all good on that front. On the other hand, I really can't afford to miss the day of the PhD.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

The rest of the building has power - I think we just lost external power which affects the garage and unfortunately, apparently the hot water. D'oh!

I'm hoping it will all magically be fixed by the time I get home. :D

I was thinking Mad Max or Total Recall

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Both my kids woke up to me singing "It's the end of the world as we know it". The youngest woke up looked outside, went "Holy Sh*t" then went back to bed.

Re: I was thinking Mad Max or Total Recall

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Heh... I should have done that!

Re: I was thinking Mad Max or Total Recall

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[brate7.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you have a flashlight and a radio, just in case. Never know where there are mutants lurking...

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Eep!

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

It's up here in Brisbane now too. My dumbass landlord has still not fixed my windows (it's been 6 years!) so there is dust everywhere.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

:( Oh noes! At least my apartment is dust free - even if there is no hot water and no teevee. :(

[amalthia]

yikes what state is this???

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

New South Wales (sydney) - it's apparently hit Brisbane today as well.

[amalthia]

ah! I forget you live in Australia. Um yeah I guess there would be quite a bit of dust due to the drought. But from what I'm hearing it's worse than normal.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

We're actually doing okay water-wise at the moment in NSW. We got a dust storm in from South Australia.

[leavingslowly.livejournal.com]

I just saw pictures of the Sydney opera house . . . in red. Unbelievable. I started reciting portions of the Grapes of Wrath in my head.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Hee... it was very eerie. It was bright but you couldn't see at the same time. Soooo odd!!

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

I just saw that on the news. Jeez... looks creepy as hell!! How do you even breathe outside? O_o

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Very carefully. They suggested people with asthma stay inside.

[elusive-life-77.livejournal.com]

I saw pictures of it on MSN today and it looked wild. The picture of the opera house in red looked apocalyptic!

(Aaaaaaaaaand now I have "it's the end of the world as we know it" stuck on loop in my head!)

Hope your power and water come back on dude. Take good care.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Everything was magically fixed when I got home which is always the best!! :D

[apieceofcake.livejournal.com]

ACK! :-( *huggles*

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Everything was magically fixed when I got home which is always the best!! :D

[goodbyebird]

Yikes! Sounds very drastic! I remember when I was in Monument Valley, and how the red dust got everywhere, but there was nary any wind at all.

Good fic fodder though ;)

[too-rational.livejournal.com]

Hey, honey pie. =) You alive out there? This sand storm business sounds serious. -.-;

Anyway, sorry to bother you, but I've been thinking about making a master post of the pdfs I've made of various peoples' fics. Since it's kind of a touchy subject and all, I wanted to ask you if you'd mind if I linked to the pdfs I made of your fics? I'd also put up a link to your original posts, of course.

If not, never mind. Thanks anyway.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Please - go ahead. :D Just drop me a line when you post.

Sorry I've been MIA - my work blocked Livejournal again (they do it every six months or so for a few weeks ... I'm hoping this time isn't permanent!!) and I just don't get time to get on here except on the weekends otherwise. :(

[too-rational.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs* It'll probably go up in a few minutes/hour at the most, so I'll be back soon. =) Oh, and I've added the doll!castiel snippet to the pdf, so the corrected version (here) will be linked.

Aww. =( Bad boss! Sucky thing to do. =P

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

Looking forward to it and to checking out the others you've done. :D

Hope you don't mind if I point peeps in your direction when you post 'em. :D

[too-rational.livejournal.com]

One PDF Master Post, here you go. ^_^

And sure, point away at will. Share the happy! =)

[raphe1.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well now that I know you weren't umm dusted ;-) (glad you are ok) I can unsubtly mention my birthday was October 3. :-)

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Argh, I know.

Work blocked Livejournal out of the blue and that's where I was posting from about 98% of the time and I was also writing straight into my journal in the mornings and my lunchtime because i just don't get time in the evenings or weekends. Argh!

I am about 3/4 through your birthday gift and waiting on the sweet charity fic to come back from beta (with hopefully not too many revisions!).

I will have 2 fics for you in your birthday *month*... !! I swear!

[raphe1.livejournal.com]

I believe you :D