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Yellow Sand

- chiamattt - Saturday, April 8th, 2006 : goo

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Big cities have smog alerts. Seoul gets Yellow dust/sand alerts. Wind picks up sand from the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia and sends it down onto Korea. The South Korean government has been spending quite a bit of money to plant trees in China in the hope that Yellow dust/sand levels would decrease. I went to get shoes today and noticed the dust right away. It burns the nose and throat a bit.

Along the river.
image 10699

On a bridge.
image 10700

I sat down in a park near my place to watch churchies. I noticed that the bench was covered with Yellow dust/sand.
image 10701

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drea: 8th Apr 2006 - 15:53 GMT

That's a good picture (referring to the last one).

Biff: Do not eat the yellow snow. (Old Canadian saying)

Carltan : 10th Apr 2006 - 02:15 GMT

yep...us canadians..at least i think, that yellow snow and sand should not be eaten...eh?nice camera pic of the finger..very nice

Peter: 11th Apr 2006 - 16:36 GMT

chia: wow, this is a phenomenon id never know about if you hadnt posted it here. fascinating... now im off to google it and read about it.

imagine... from the gobi desert. thats fascinating.

Tamara: 11th Apr 2006 - 18:01 GMT

Chiamattt, the yellow sand made it to the news at noon in Toronto. Apparently severals cars were badly damaged in China while driving near a toll station, having their winodows smashed due to the force of the wind. Is this just being sensationalized? Or is it really that bad?

Tyfoid Kid: 11th Apr 2006 - 18:09 GMT

I'd heard that China was planting billions of tree. South Korea must be part of this then.

From the ChinaDaily online -
Last year, nearly 560 million people planted more than 2.5 billion trees throughout China. The accumulated efforts of volunteers reached 8.8 billion with more than 42 billion trees planted during the 1982-2003 period, NAC's statistics indicate.

To date, the area with human-planted trees across China has exceeded 46 million hectares, ranking it first in the world.
[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/12/content_313964.htm]

shoofly: 15th Apr 2006 - 01:51 GMT

I was in Seoul for my brother's wedding on Saturday, April 9th. I didn't know that the yellow sand was toxic until I got back to the States to read about it, however, many Koreans were wearing masks. The air did bother my eyes and throat a bit- but it wasn't until our photos came back that I could see how hazy it really was.

chiamattt: 28th Apr 2006 - 10:43 GMT

Carltan, the last photo was not taken with my handphone camera. bc

Emma: 17th Mar 2007 - 18:28 GMT

This is exactly the sort of yellow dust I have in Houston right now. I guess it's sulphur fallout of some sort from industry... does anyone know anything about this?

Jackie: 28th Mar 2007 - 09:18 GMT

This is the sort of yellow dust you would find in my neighbours house

LAila: 3rd Apr 2007 - 04:49 GMT

Yeah... my Korean students from Kwangju told me about the yellow sand.
They said they can't go outside because the streets are full of dust.
It will affect their skins and eyes... That's why they have to be
careful!

JULIE B, : 6th Apr 2007 - 16:59 GMT

I AM HERE IN KOREA NOW-4-5-07 AND HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A MONTH AND YES SOME DAYS IF I GO OUTSIDE MY EYES WATER REALLY BAD. THEY HAVE CLOSED THE SCHOOLS AT OSAN AB ONE DAY BECOUSE OF THE YELLOW SAND.

Terry: 9th Apr 2007 - 16:08 GMT

Funny thing is that Gobi and Takia deserts gets larger and larger. Tyfoid, think about how many trees would be cut off if each chinese use toilet paper. There are about 1.5 billion ppl. Though they plant trees, it won't make any better situation

Adriana: 19th Sep 2007 - 01:59 GMT

Thats scary to see and to think that it might get worse ! thats terrible. The trees that are being planted aren't working they are falling over or just getting covered with sand. i hope it gets better, for everyones well being.

saffo: 9th Mar 2008 - 11:48 GMT

When I was studying in Beijing there were several sandstorms during spring time. Students from my university voluntered to plant trees north of Beijing. I planted four. image 26299

chiamattt: 24th Mar 2008 - 02:27 GMT

Looks like they're building a fence, not planting trees. haha

mopey: 6th May 2008 - 08:52 GMT

can you believe that the ARMY makes us run in it all the time? haha

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