G'day Keith,
yeah, wasn't a bad blow was it?

Notice how the media beat it out of all proportion though: cries of climate change and how the world is gonna end and other silliness. I think you're old enough to remember similar dust storms from when you were a kid? I certainly do.

What storms like this really show is how bad the drought truly is - can't kick up dust that is bound by vegetation - and we've been in drought for a good 25 years or more.

The last time Lake Eyre (North and South) was completely filled was 1974, and 1950 before that. When Lake Eyre is filled from flow from the North (Qld, upper NSW etc.) then we are likely not in drought. Once it drops, a drought is not far away. Over my lifetime we have suffered drought more often than not.

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