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To: carriage_hill

A few years ago, late winter, we were driving west on I-40 thru the Texas panhandle and hit a wall of the thickest fog we’d ever seen. You couldn’t see the side of the road, let alone any offramps...just the vague glimmer of tail lights ahead; traffic didn’t slow, so we white-knuckled it for close to a hundred miles - virtually blind and going 70MPH, praying that somebody coming up from behind didn’t run through our tailpipe.


10 posted on 07/23/2014 7:27:30 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

I cannot think of anything that would be scarier than that, knowing you can’t just pull over, or stop for fear of cars hitting you.


15 posted on 07/23/2014 7:40:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ErnBatavia

That’s a recipe for a major disaster; glad you made it thru. I had a similar experience back in the 80s on I-78 west from NJ to PA, in a blizzard. I had a death grip on the Jeep’s wheel even after I got out of it.


19 posted on 07/23/2014 7:54:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: ErnBatavia

I’ve done that on a motorcycle. Just following the faint red lights ahead since it was even more dangerous to pull over and wait.


24 posted on 07/23/2014 8:48:06 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: ErnBatavia
Sometimes luck trumps foolishness. Oftentimes it doesn't.
29 posted on 07/23/2014 12:03:25 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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