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Article #1775Re: flashing lights to pass
From: cougar
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
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On Wed, 28 May 1997 14:45:58 -0700, bgray@macromedia.com (Brian Gray) wrote: >sargon@tpi.net wrote: > >> 'grandma' (Rosalie Beasley) wrote: >> >> > What are you thinking of? The northern CA coast is constantly in fog. >> >> I beg to differ, I have spent the last 21 years of my life in the >> greater bay area. We get fog all of 2 to 3 days a year... on average. > >Well, "greater bay area" notwithstanding, I live on the acual coast as the >original poster indicated (San Francisco, one block in from the beach), >and the 2 to 3 days per year represents the number of mornings I leave the >house NOT shrouded in fog. I got pretty much the same thing on the Palos >Verdes coast when I lived in Southern CA. > > -- Brian I suppose part of it is what you're used to. I am a recent transplant to Southern CA and find it quite amuzing that people turn on their headlights when clouds come out. I especially find it amusing that when it sprinkles here, (it doesn't "rain" here) people have their wipers on as fast as they can go and have major accidents on the roads. I think most Californians would faint if they ever experienced REAL weather....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,20dbb360710fe629 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a8c46b5ef582ac3a X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,36b770190454bf4d X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: cougar@cathouse.nospam.com Subject: Re: flashing lights to pass Date: 1997/05/29 Message-ID: <5mklmv$3ma$5@jo.randori.com> X-Deja-AN: 244785620 References: <32eddac6.64522299@news.pipeline.com> <5cieer$l1@barsoom.digex.net> <32f47731.51822517@news.pipeline.com> <5d54v5$oqg@newstoo.worldbank.org> <32F6488B.4FC5@lehigh.edu> <32F6A17A.3BFB@umich.edu> <5dn5fc$nhq@infa.central.susx.ac.uk> <33011BC2.13 <rmounce.348.002E7832@us.net> <330B028C.4DAA@fallschurch.esys.com.nospam> <wykE5vGB7.9nB@netcom.com> <330BD064.2EB9@itis.com> <337b24ff.307470@news.mindspring.com> <338A6933.47FA@tpi.net> <bgray-2805971445580001@news.macromedia.com> Reply-To: cougar@cathouse.nospam.com Newsgroups: dc.driving,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving