wild weather

yesterday melbourne had crazy storms moving thru it with "once a year high winds". fortunately for the worst part of it wombat was safely curled up inside the house and i was inside at work. in the afternoon the skyturned orange (from all the dust being blown up around the state) and then it went VERY dark and started to pour (and one poor mum had just picked up her kid at that point and was walking off to get her second child before walking home up the creek-- i'm assuming she had at least a 20 min walk or more from the sounds of it). the age website has some great (kinda scary) photos and also some reader's photos. today it's blue sky and calm (but pretty cold-- at least it was warm for most of yesterday)