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Chamchiman



Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:44 pm    Post subject: Don't go jogging. Reply with quote

Huge yellow dust cloud coming today.

"Satellite" image: http://www.kma.go.kr/dust/dust_01_05.jsp

Current conditions: http://www.kma.go.kr/dust/dust_01_01.jsp or http://www.kma.go.kr/dust/dust_01_02.jsp
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ReeseDog



Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Holy cow! What should one do? Just stay indoors? I don't guess that'll help.
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blade



Joined: 30 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ReeseDog wrote:
Holy cow! What should one do? Just stay indoors? I don't guess that'll help.

Get yourself one of these if you really feel the need to jog in kland.
http://www.nextag.com/personal-air-purifier/search-html
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PeteJB



Joined: 06 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sand fruit, come get your sand fruit.
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eIn07912



Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Location: seoul

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

damn, i went jogging this morning. no wonder my lungs felt like they were trying to turn inside out.
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Chamchiman



Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eIn07912 wrote:
damn, i went jogging this morning. no wonder my lungs felt like they were trying to turn inside out.


The dust isn't in Seoul yet. Your lungs felt like they were trying to turn themselves inside out because you're out of shape. Wink

To be honest, I've never found the yellow dust to be that big a problem. Sometimes I'll come home and my wife will say, "The hwangsa was really bad today wasn't it?" but for me the whole day was sunshine and rainbows. Maybe my chest and throat aren't particularly sensitive to it. It is said that it's a health risk though, and people with breathing problems should probably avoid outdoor exercise on days where it's heavy.

(The bigger problem for me, and many others, is pollen season. That's real yellow dust - on cars, on windows, around the edges of rain puddles. That stuff hits a lot of people pretty hard.)
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Robot_Teacher



Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robots highly lubed joints may become jammed with cooling fans gunked up causing an overheating issue. Does this call for tomorrow or Wednesday being a yellow dust pollution day off? I've read on the internet this happens due to China's polluted desert growing in size each year where pollution attaches itself to each molecule of yellow dust making the air unfit for human consumption. Makes me think of Dune or some science fiction where we travel to a world ruined by it's former inhabitants due to the air becoming unsuitable to support life as a result of their huge overlooked mistakes.
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DrOctagon



Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://eng.airkorea.or.kr/

Many orange dots today, a few red, and even a couple dark red dots on the Eastern coast of Gangwan-do.
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samcheokguy



Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrOctagon wrote:
http://eng.airkorea.or.kr/

Many orange dots today, a few red, and even a couple dark red dots on the Eastern coast of Gangwan-do.

Where asthmatic I live.
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aquaponics08



Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crap! Now that it's warm, I was getting ready to haul the kettlebells outside this week. Guess I'll have to wait.
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If hwangsa is coming or here then why does my school have the front and back doors wide open.
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Pwillig



Joined: 26 Jan 2009

PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ugh, can't wait to see what this will do my sinuses that started up Friday.

This isn't like spring pollen in the U.S. south, right? That stuff is pretty fierce - gets so thick it makes my black car look yellow.
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DrOctagon



Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woah! Check it out now. Dark red dots all over the place. Even Jeju has red dots. I can't breathe!!!
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because they're gluebags.

I think it's time you took a sick day. Blame the yellow dust and open windows.

Xuanzang wrote:
If hwangsa is coming or here then why does my school have the front and back doors wide open.
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because they're gluebags.

I think it's time you took a sick day. Blame the yellow dust and open windows.

Xuanzang wrote:
If hwangsa is coming or here then why does my school have the front and back doors wide open.
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