12 May 09 07:32, Roger Nelson wrote to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> On another occasion I was doing perhaps 30 mph on I-80 somewhere in
 BA>> northeast Nevada.  In the middle of the night.  In ground fog,
 BA>> visibility zip.

 RN> We have weather like that all the time in New Orleans and surrounding
 RN> areas. Now that I'm retired, I stay out of it.  There is no place I
 RN> need to be with 0 visibility.  My 1st wife and I saw a guy in a
 RN> sportscar get killed because of it.

 BA>> And a trucker went by me like I was nailed to the road.  I remember
 BA>> thinking 'what if there's something hard in this cloud?'

Driving my girl-friend's little VW bug, I followed close on the bumper of
an 18 wheeler doing 70mph in the fog on Highway 99 in the San Jauquin
Valley. The draft was what I was looking for and we got quite a ways
before coming up on a 18 wheeler who had crashed, which is where I had to
drop back and then lost him in the fog. Ascending to the 'grapevine'
heading toward L.A. took longer than the ride from Bakersfield. :o)

                R\%/itt




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