Sydneysiders: What do you think of the dust storm which hit this morning?

It's so weird. I was half-asleep when I woke up at about 6am and I saw the sky out of the corner of my eye. I opened my blinds and remember thinking it was pretty lol. I was real drowsy so I thought it was the sun rising or something. Then I closed my blinds and woke up again at 10 AM (it's my day off) to a mive sneezing fit cos I suffer from hay fever. My mum asked me if I saw it and I said I did but didn't think twice about it at the time. Now I feel itchy and on the verge of sneezing at all times :S BTW, I live about an hour from Sydney in the Wollongong Shire NSW.