At 03:29 PM Saturday 2/25/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
P.S. It's pretty well overcast tonight. Unlike the spotlight
someone has going to the NE of here, my pointer will not reach far
enough to put a visible spot on the clouds. It will suffice,
however, to mark any branch on any tree visible from here.
How far will it get through thick fog? I mean the sort of fog that
makes you wish you hand't had a meeting away from home that evening
because you're crawling along at 15 mph because if you go much
faster, you might not see the edge of the road before you start to
go off, and you're taking the turns around 5 to make sure you don't
end up in one of the deep ditches on either side of the road you're
turning on to.
Julia
who had a meeting Tuesday evening and came home through some really
nasty fog, and who really, really wishes the county had sprung for
paint on one road in particular
I'd be interested in the answer to that question, too, but afaik we
haven't had any thick fog like that since I got it, unless perhaps
there was an occasion when it formed and dissipated while I was
asleep and I never even looked out the window and saw it. I think
there might have been a bit of light haze once or twice, but nothing
you couldn't easily see through and just noticed because of the
effect it had on street lights or distant trees. No fires with thick
smoke, either. (Thankfully.) I'll keep it in mind and see if I can
try it the next time there is a thick fog (assuming I am somewhere
stationary and have the pointer handy rather than being stuck behind
the wheel trying to get through it myself . . . ). And since you
mentioned this, I wonder what it would look like during a moderate to
heavy snowfall? Not that such seems to be in the short-range
forecast: it is supposed to be in the upper 60s-low 70s the next few
days. OTOH, the "blizzard of '93" occurred in mid-March, so I
suppose it's not completely out of the question . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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