Christmas travel chaos as thick fog sparks mass delays and cancellations at UK’s busiest airports
We're in the third day of persistent fog/mist here in our bit of Derbyshire. It's patchy as we found out on a trip to Matlock yesterday, sometimes more mist than fog and sometimes quite dense fog.
It reminds me of a short story by Morley Roberts. A very dense fog lasting for many days descends on London, so dense that people cannot even find their way home. People go crazy, break into shops to steal anything of value and even kill each other as law and order has broken down.
Couldn't happen now of course. We have cleaner air, quangos and progressive multiculturalism to protect us.
It reminds me of a short story by Morley Roberts. A very dense fog lasting for many days descends on London, so dense that people cannot even find their way home. People go crazy, break into shops to steal anything of value and even kill each other as law and order has broken down.
Couldn't happen now of course. We have cleaner air, quangos and progressive multiculturalism to protect us.
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The Isle of Wight has disappeared into a bank of cloud, and it is a bit drizzly. Sometimes the ferries sound their horns, and we need the lights on a bit earlier.
No major mass panic yet, although I think we can all agree that something must be done.
Fog! Call this fog? In my day it really was foggy and dangerous to walk, let alone drive. I can remember hanging out the nearside window so I could tell my Dad where the curb was.
Mind you that was before the Clean Air Act.
I hope the curb was on a horse, DJ.
Sam - quite right, something must be done. Expensive and unreliable electricity could be one answer.
DJ - I remember something similar, keeping the passenger door partly open so I could peer down at the road and tell Mrs H's father if we weren't wandering off it.
JH: Can’t see my glass in front of my face.
The terrifying bit about driving in those peasoupers was coming to a multi road junction when pavement kerb and road centre white lines dissapeared. Driving by dead reckoning with other, as yet unseen, cars, cyclists, lorries, etc. doing the same thing.
JH - and that's indoors.
Doonhamer - younger people probably think we're exaggerating and fog couldn't have been that bad, but it was.
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