Repatriate Me!

Yesterday the Chinese invaded Korea as they do every spring. Well not exactly the Chinese but all the sand from the northern China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan deserts gets airborne and flying east blanketing Korea and Japan in horrible yellow dust which some times reaches as far as the west coast of the United States.

Needless to say due to this horrible weather we had to pass on the Saint Patricks Day event which we were planning on going to. I’m sure it was cancelled, but really only a fool would go out in this weather. There are health warnings every spring during each storm. One year I went out for 40 minutes and the result was a wicked case of the hives for 3 days, which just about drove me crazy.

Below is a picture which I filched from this news article about the yellow dust storm we just had. From my apartment window yesterday the view was not just gray like it usually is, but looked alot like a sepia toned photograph. Too bad I didn’t think to take a picture of it, as that was the only time I’ve seen the entire sky turned yellow/brown from the dust.

Yellow dust storms are definitely one of the things I will absolutely not miss about Korea once I leave.