Posted by Mike Field on September 17, 2002 at 08:24:15 from 203.26.98.6 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Fogs, density of posted by David Bamford on September 16, 2002 at 22:40:48:
On the other hand, I can remember my wife driving our Morris Minor in fog here in Melbourne in the early days of our marriage, and me leaning across in front of her with a rag to wipe the heavy mist off the inside of the driver's window, only to find that the window was in fact fully open.
(The morning after that fog, cars were found to have been abandoned all over the place -- just left in the road where their drivers stopped driving them while they presumably walked home.)
Now I think of it, we were burning a fair bit of coal in Melbourne in those days, too. This was in the form of "briquettes" as they were called -- little bricks of compressed coal-dust from the open-cut mines in the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland. Briquettes were one of the main heating fuels here after the war, superseded in the late 60s by heating oil (which lasted only until the OPEC price hikes of the early 70s, but that's another story.)