Children, the elderly and those suffering from asthma or heart or lung diseases were advised to stay indoors as even healthy adults reported "itchy throats" and a metallic aftertaste in their mouths after walking through the thick haze.
Commuters used face masks, originally intended to protect them from the spread of swine flu, to negotiate the clogged streets on their way to work. Some schools were closed and sports activities were called off as the conditions pushed air pollution levels to 1500 times their normal levels – the highest on record.
Passengers at the busy Sydney Airport faced delays of up to six hours for international flights and three hours for domestic trips, and some international flights were cancelled as visibility was reduced to just a few feet.
Sydney ferries were also suspended for several hours for safety reasons.
Cars were cloaked, inches thick, in the orange dust and yachts on the harbor, usually gleaming white, had a dull yellowy sheen.
Locals, ringing in to radio stations to express their shock at the red dawn, compared the quiet streets and general sense of bewilderment to "Armageddon".
"It's like a nuclear winter morning," tourist Peter Wilson, 53, at Circular Quay in central Sydney told Reuters. "It is so eerie." Daniel Hall told the Daily Telegraph that when he awoke in the Sydney suburb of Paddington the sky was "bright red" and "all the cars were covered in dirt".
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