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'grandma' (Rosalie Beasley) wrote:
> 
> Aardwolf <se1aard@itis.com> wrote:
> 
> >Your Bud Wes wrote:
> >> Hrm. Fog lights are _usually_ yellow. Very few places in CA get a lot of
> >> fog.
> 
> What are you thinking of?  The northern CA coast is constantly in fog.
> They have flashing lights a couple hundred yards down the highway to
> warn that there is a signal ahead because in the fog you can't see
> it!!!  The only time there is no fog is when it is raining ;-)
> Rosalie in MD

CA does have plenty of fog.  Fresno (in the central Valley, a good
distance from the coast) was particularly bad... but my worst fog
experience was on a train coming home from Eugene at Christmas in 1986. 
Just south of Sacramento the train was at full speed when a truck either
didn't see or didn't care that the crossing signals were down.  The
train hit the cab of the truck dead center and opened the trailer like a
can opener.  The trailer was full of cans of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup. 
The engine of the train jack-knifed and was lying on its side on fire on
the right side of the tracks.  When we got off the train on the left,
the fog was so thick you couldn't see the smoke from the fire, just on
occasional glimpse of orange flames.  When I first stepped off the
train, I thought there was oil everywhere, until I looked closer and saw
it was all chocolate syrup.  The old Smothers' Brothers' song "I Fell
into a Vat of Chocolate" kept going through my head...

So don't try to tell me there's no fog in CA.

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