www.abc.net.au/.../2694988.htm
The photo that accompanies the article is the North Sydney Olympic Pool. I wonder if the water turned muddy as the day (and the dust storm) progressed? How would the dust affect pool filters and swimmers' lungs?
After all, the air pollution levels were the highest on record. Climate scientists said that particles per cubic metre of air was 10 micrograms on a normal day, 500 when there's a bushfire and yesterday it rocketed to 15,400 micrograms.
www.abc.net.au/.../s2695471.htm
It's terribly funny (but sad) how the reporter turns a dust storm into a man-made climate change problem.
Filters will trap solids, they will probably just have to change it earlier and monitor more closely.
For the lungs, if your not a smoker your body produces slime so you can expell any forign solid particles that find their way in
