Okay, what the hell is up with the freaking weather? Seriously, they're calling for it to peak at around 60° after midnight. It is January, isn't it? Hold on, lemme check... Yup, still January.
It snowed yesterday and the temperature has been on the rise slowly all day today. This does some funky things to moisture in the air and the snow that's still on the ground. A mass of fog and really dense fog just rolls in and off the banks.
The ride home was actually treacherous. I've never seen fog that thick. More than once, the road just disappeared from under the car in a bank of fog completely erasing any point of reference. I had to hit the breaks because it just felt like the car was going off into the ditch. It wasn't, but the absence of anything to focus on, to give yourself some sense of where, is just about the most disconserting thing I've felt in a long while.
On the plus side, it looked very cool. Very moviesque. A swirling mass of light grey only illuminated in my headlights (some of the roads I take are devoid of streetlights, cars and God). The breeze would rip it up and push it into pools against the rocks and it would disappear down a driveway or sidestreet. Every now and then, there would be pockets that were fogless and it would seem like I had driven into a tiny bubble of reality. But then the car would drift back into a bank and it would just roll over the hood and the windshield and, I imagine, engulf the car, muting the lights.
It took me an extra 15 mintues to get home because of the fog. Even in the driveway, getting the mail, our street was quite and it seemed like a horror film where I could be the last person on earth—right before the zombie hordes descend.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 9:39 PM
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