As usual, pardon the crappy cell phone picture. I was in my jammies, letting the dogs out to go do their business and the cell phone was right there.
SO…had the one of the WEIRDEST experiences of my life yesterday driving home from Bismarck. There was this incredibly HEAVY fog covering much of the roads I travel home. Having been born and raised in Southern California I am used to fog…in fact I really only associate fog with coastal states, like Cali. I can remember walking to school on really foggy mornings and getting to the point where we would have to cross Parthenia with the knowledge we could only see maybe 20 feet in either direction and the cars wouldn’t be likely to see us crossing in time to stop. We would stop, listen really hard for any kind of engine noise, then run across the two lane road as fast as we could.
Digressed again…So there was this really heavy fog coming home from Bismarck. Which I didn’t expect being in a land locked state. But the other thing that truly amazed me was that it was about 10 degrees. Now, in my layman’s mind, I assume that fog is water vapor. At 10 degrees, I would again assume that any water molecules in the fog would freeze and fall to the ground…which, by the way, was not happening. So I was really having a hard time figuring out what the hell was going on and how it was going on.
We got home, still fog everywhere…blankets of it. Some of the blankets were light like a thin white cotton bed sheet…others HEAVY like a big down comforter. This morning the fog is gone but now everything is encased in ice…kind of like the water molecules in the fog need a catalyst to do the freezing and falling out of the air I was expecting…but the catalyst was contact with something solid.
Very strange and something I am going to have to research…I’m not going to be able to let this conundrum go until I understand it. I will have to post my findings in case any readers are as curious about this phenomena as I am.
**OOPS** – Almost forgot. It was my darling brother-in-laws birthday yesterday. I had to get him some more Victoria’s Secret products to go with the undies I got him last year. LOL! Love ya Kenny…and Happy Birthday!!!
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Funny how you associate fog with the coast. I lived in CO for years and fog was a common thing in winter. Usually accompanies most really cold and icy mornings.