Night and Fog

[flemmings]

We have both tonight. I haven't smelled city night fog since-- I swear-- 1962, when the Grey Cup got fogged out. This was because the Grey Cup was played at Exhibition Stadium, a time I can now scarce remember. So scarcely can I remember it, I thought it was 1963, but that was Kennedy.

(There was fog in England in 1975, I'm sure, but it was London fog and smelled of... diesel, I think. Or the tube. There was mist in Japan occasionally, but I remember my classical Japanese prof explaining that fog comes down and mist rises up and Japan gets the former but rarely the latter. Which I'll believe, conch shell blowing armies in Hidden Fortress notwithstanding.)

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[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

It was very strange, watching the city disappear from lakeshore up. Very thick fog, very high up - not something I'd seen before here.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Very high up? meaning, not high in the sky but coming well above above the lakeshore?

See, the CN Tower regularly disappears, but that's just low-lying cloud. It's not something that invades the streets. When the streetlamps muffle, then, yeah, it's fog. I'm just surprised at the realization of how rarely it happens.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

The fog bank kind of rolled up from lakeshore and we watched the Mill street condos disappear, and then the tall apt building at dundas and sherbourne-ish (all things being skewed by being 16 floors up here) -- by the time it came across the Gardens, the streets were disappearing and an hour later, we were staring the fog bank in the face. So. Yes, it seemed at lest 16 stories high above lakeshore as it rolled in. :) I wish photos would have worked, but it was too dark.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I see what you mean. Yeah, looking fog in the face at 16 floors up must be weird, especially when it's blotting out the guys down on the ground as well.