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I dunno, some of the fields around Castroville can get pretty large. Picking celery all day following a conveyor, and never got to the end of the row. I'd hate to be lost in there when the fog came in at night. :/:
 
Fog can get scary.

Where we cut logs and firewood once, if the fog came in you couldn't see 10 feet. Turn around and you were lost.

When I was driving interstate overnight I used to drive through it pretty fast, I knew the roads well but sometimes I'd come out of it and be miles from where I thought I was.:O
 
In England they have it where the fog freezes in the air, or something like that. Driving with your head out the window you can see a few feet. At night it's terrible.
 
On the island where I lived as a kid, it got like that at night sometimes.
I remember my mom getting out and walking in front of the car , so my dad could follow her silhouette.
On a narrow country road with no painted lines, it was the only way to avoid going off the road.
 
Reminds me of driving in Low/First/Low with nothing but the cat-eyes on, Ger.
 
They have that Tule fog, as it is called, in the central valley in California. A thick ground fog. I remember hearing of incredible pile ups on Hwy 5 during the season for it....no joke. A famous one involved 25 cars and twelve big rigs, and there were five fatalities, but the biggest was on Hwy 99 near Fresno. 108 passenger cars and 18 big rigs. The visibility can be zero. Sometimes combine that with freezing drizzle and black ice. You don't want to be there looking for a place to turn around..
 
Back in the 80's some bureaucrats decided we needed an extra airport, so they reclaimed some land, put a lot of people of their properties for less than they were worth. There were a lot of protests, but they went ahead.

Then after a few years someone finaly either went and had a look or took some notice. It fogs in there that thick it doesn't lift sometimes till mid afternoon. Great place for an airport.:|:
 
No sweat, Ger. I don't know what you meant about "DOT events", though; I was referring to my experiences as an 88M.
 
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Next thing you know she will get rid of Festivus.

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