I'll second Marks comments. I was heading in the other direction, although I doubt either he or I could of picked the others car on the opposite side of the road.
I called it 'Brown Out', with significant stretches of the road with visibility down to a few meters as an entire paddocks worth of dust, grass (and perhaps rabbits and small sheep) engulfed the road (but no sign of Dorothy or the wicked witch of the west). You could only stop and wait or crawl along following the left hand white line (praying that some insane bastard didn't ram you from behind whilst doing some stupid speed). Fortunately Justine and I ended up in a bit of a convoy crawling along (except for the crazy truck driver at the rear who wanted to overtake everyone) and playing follow the leader. Still very scary seeing the car in front disappear completely from view even though he is only a few car lengths in front. People the following morning reported at least one car had left the road at speed and clobbered a tree. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: Sunday, 3 April 2005 2:32 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BORING REPORT - A Stinker of a Day The dust intensified through the evening: Driving back to Adelaide after dark was like driving through brown fog, with tumbleweeds jumping chaotically across the road at 50km/h and the occasional drift of even heavier dust that cut visibility to zero for a few seconds. I definitely wasn't driving in VMC. - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
