We have entered the sandstorm season here in Beijing. So far they have mostly occurred at night which means we can hear the wind whipping around but we can't really see what is going on.
Sunday night there was a storm, but the reason we knew that it was a storm and not just a little wind is that the next morning everything was covered in about 1/8" of red/brown dirt. When Cara went to her language class there was a crew vacuuming the dirt from the 10 foot wide tiled area that surrounds that tower.
As this is being typed, the wind is blowing again. We thought we could see the storm rolling in earlier this evening, but it might have just been smog - its hard to tell sometimes.
Not that we want to be caught out in one of these things, but we are hoping to actually see one eventually. Don't worry, we'll be sure to take photos if we do.
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you know it never dawned on me that china would be a place that would have it's own sand. spent a little bit of time thinking about it and I think I can see how it migth but really is a strange,,, i'd always thought of it as such a bamboo covered happy panda sort of environment.
ok well you learn something new every day,, turn your back to the wind (that sounds like good advice) :)
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