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The top two pictures were taken as I walked pass in front of Four Seasons in my town.  I could not see more than a block as the low pressure system pushed all the "interesting" air into Shanghai.  The air was a vail of sandy brown.  I washed my face as soon as I got home.  Incidentally, this location was the same taken as in a NYT article.  Mine was at the ground level where the real actions happened.  The article's was taken from the Howard Johnson high above at night.  The title for the article was "In Shanghai, Preservation Takes Work"  

 Notice in my pictures there were no trees?  In the NYT there were trees?  The trees were "moved" overnight in preparation of the subway work inside the construction site.