Today is Bad

[andyrrc]

Hi all really suffering today with the environment.

The distance to the trees in the pic is about 75m and the sky is virtually invisible Really need some rain

Forgot to say this is not mist This is sand and its causing havoc with my breathing this morning

[Hidden]

Looks like your living next to demolition site ... could you not use a bandanna or out or even sprinkler in your garden WELL providing hose is not full of stagnant water

[andyrrc in reply to Hidden]

Not far wrong ....The whole of the Middle East is basically a building site and if the locals are not building on it then the land is just desert - when I have to go out in this I wear a surgical mask to keep the dust away (and also for everyday general if I am going to be amongst other people at this time of year). Gardens are not really the in thing here unless you get a villa in a compound, I live on the 23rd floor of a high rise and an earlier picture I posted shows the same sort of view from the window Winter winds here always pick up sand and I believe that it gets as far as West Africa and even the UK if the wind is in the right direction.

[Hidden in reply to andyrrc]

Hi yer us in UK have experienced Middle East dust storms DEFO can keep them.

Here it’s bad enough when a bus wip’s past 🚌 and kicks load of road grits in ya face with out any of what you have to put up with.

Best I can offer is i hope it dose rain for you

[Shancock]

Oh dear, do you have a mask to wear when outside? I think I'd have to do that.

[andyrrc in reply to Shancock]

it is part of my daily routine just in case when it is like this I always wear as mask when outside

[Ergendl]

Hope the weather changes for you soon.

[andyrrc in reply to Ergendl]

Thanks - It always seems strange being from North Wales originally to be hoping for rain but boy do I hope it rains soon

[COPDPete]

Hi Andy. I was in Jeddah for four years, so a combination of dust and 24 hour air con in the flat, car, office, shops and restaurants. I’ve wondered if those conditions were one of the root causes of my copd. Keep well mate and say hi to the desert for me.

[andyrrc]

I am convinced that it was the dust and sand in Qatar (3 years) and then the diesel and other pollution in Moscow (2 Years) that kick started mine - but I did not learn and being in Khobar for the last 4 and 1/2 years has really moved it on to the point it is now. Desert says hi too