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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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 Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:02 am Post subject: Yellow Dust Alert tonight |
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Huge Yellow Dust storm moving in tonight. Close the windows.
I got the warning message from USFK. I can't legally copy and paste the information. There's a big storm moving in and it's expected to be the largest storm since last Spring. More than 300mgl expected....whatever that means...I just know it's bad.
btw, here's a link to the current conditions monitor http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/default.asp |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot - that monitor site is especially helpful in determining whether-or-not it's safe to take a deep breath around Seoul (maybe not a good time for joggers right now - but so far the yellow dust storm hasn't been as bad as the forecast...) |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Here we go. Yellow Dust scare season again. I've been here 6 years and it hasn't bothered me yet. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not personally prone to throwing hissy-fits over a little Yellow Dust. Or even large amounts of it. But something had me sneezing last night, and today I've come in from outside three times with my eyes itching, irritated and red from rubbing. It's here already. It's only February and that foul *beep* is here already. I wonder how long before it gets so bad that prospective outbound Engish teachers factor it into their choice of where to work & live... Like how Western expat families are leaving Hong Kong or refusing to be sent there by their employers.
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Clear blue skies today here near the south coast.
Air smells fresh. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Move over, VI. The entire population of western Korea is staying at your house until early June or whenever this area is fit again for human habitation. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Move over, VI. The entire population of western Korea is staying at your house until early June or whenever this area is fit again for human habitation. |
Great.  I've got a big two-bedroom apartment overlooking the river in my signature. Come on over! I'm making a big chili tomorrow as a waygook friend visits. Always room for more. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha ha, you nerd! Get married already, VI. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Move over, VI. The entire population of western Korea is staying at your house until early June or whenever this area is fit again for human habitation. |
Great. I've got a big two-bedroom apartment overlooking the river in my signature. Come on over! I'm making a big chili tomorrow as a waygook friend visits. Always room for more. |
You're on! So, you can expect most of us 27 million around 2 or 3 o'clock tomorrow, we just made our KTX reservations. Not sure about about the connecting buses from Busan, so let's say 3 o'clock Korea Time. Oh yeah, and for breakfast nothing too elaborate. Just some toast, coffee, and a three-minute egg. (Not two-and-a-half-minute, mind you. Three.) |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not normally too badly affected by it either. Just one day last year it made me as sick as a dog.
Thanks for the heads up!
ilovebdt |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| ... around 2 or 3 o'clock tomorrow, we just made our KTX reservations. Not sure about about the connecting buses from Busan, so let's say 3 o'clock Korea Time. Oh yeah, and for breakfast nothing too elaborate. Just some toast, coffee, and a three-minute egg. |
There's a four-hour express bus from Nambu terminal in Seoul, and I indeed serve eggs, toast and coffee for breakie, though I often suggest wheatlets, porridge and tea.
I have met over 20 Dave's posters by such open invites to my place, most when I was on Geoje grant you, as the island mystique drew many. Where I am now is a nice river valley, with a nice beach and parks, but it has less appeal as an idea it seems.
Anyone interested in getting out of the city - any city - and meet some friendly country folk, there's a fellow Canadian, an Aussie and an American hereabouts, and we're all approachable and easy to meet. And none of us are bar crowd types, so if you wanna hang out and chat, come on down!
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| Get married already, VI. |
When I meet Ms. Right yeah. But then we'll be inviting couples to visit.
I grew up in a town of 5000 people, have always had urban aspirations, and the university years were great, but since then small town life have been more my speed for day-to-day living.
So come and I'll show you there's no yellow sand hereabouts. PM me. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| The "Yellow Dust" affects me far less than the Long-Leaf Pine of the southeastern US. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:53 am Post subject: |
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so after one of the clearest days we've had in recent months have we finally given up pandering to sensationalist headlines of impending doom  |
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Tjames426
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:22 am Post subject: Yellow Dust |
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I lived in Taijin China as a language student from 1994 - 1995. One of my vivid memories is walls of yellow from ground to the heavens coming across the city. Everyone ran to their homes and rooms.
Those warped and rickety Chinese metal windows just leaked dust too. |
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crsandus
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:30 am Post subject: Re: Yellow Dust Alert tonight |
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| hairy sue wrote: |
Huge Yellow Dust storm moving in tonight. Close the windows.
I got the warning message from USFK. I can't legally copy and paste the information. There's a big storm moving in and it's expected to be the largest storm since last Spring. More than 300mgl expected....whatever that means...I just know it's bad.
btw, here's a link to the current conditions monitor http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/default.asp |
So does this "yellow dust" storm get people sick with yellow fever or something?
Sorry, sorry. I apologize, I just had to say it. Yeah it was bad. |
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