On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Ronn! Blankenship < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> The worst fog I have ever seen was one night >> between Windsor and Toronto, where literally all >> that was visible was a few feet of the road right >> in front of the car. And all the natives were flying by at 70 or 75 mph . >> . . > > > Did you know that studies have shown that people unconsciously speed up in > fog? People who can't see a speedometer will consistently think they are > going slower -- significantly slower -- than they really are. Yes. Which makes for more spectacular car crashes when they happen. > We hit Tule fog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_fog) in the Central > Valley a couple of years ago and I did what I know I should have done > many times before -- immediately got off the road and stayed the night > in a motel. That motel was close to empty when we checked in; it was > full an hour later. Actually, it's not quite right to say we hit that > fog. More like it formed around us. We get ground fog on a regular basis, but it's usually nowhere near that dense. The neatest thing about it is that if the moon is up, you can't see all that far in front of you, but you can see something almost a quarter of a million miles away from you. :) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
