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Re: Rain Questions for Vision-Impaired Folks (like me)

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From: Richard Loken
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:06
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miller@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com (Mark Miller) writes:

>More rain questions for the vision-impaired: How do you folks reduce
>fogging/rain accumulation on your glasses? Contact lenses are not an
>option for me, and I *must* (can you say blind as a bat?) wear the
>glasses. These factors have combined to cause me problems, especially
>when riding at night.

How about this then.  

I used to do a half hour communte when I lived in Edmonton and I would keep it 
up until there was snow.  One year it got down to -20 Celcius before it snowed 
and I found that my glasses stayed clear until I stopped at an intersection 
when the lenses frosted up immediately.  I could see nothing through them and 
would peer around and under them and look for green and red smudges though the 
frost to tell me what the light was doing.  I started off completely blind but 
the moving air would have the lenses clear before I reached the other side of 
the intersection.

It's obviously luck and not brains that has kept me alive.

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  Richard Loken VE6BSV                             : "Better sex, bigger homes,
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From: tech@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Richard Loken)
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Subject: Re: Rain Questions for Vision-Impaired Folks (like me)
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