We had a few inches of snow last night, the real light, fluffy kind. It only took a couple of minutes to shovel my walk, and a few more to push the snow off my car, and off to work I went.
As I was driving down a semi-major road (only two lanes, but definitely not a side street), a school bus pulled out in front of me – and totally disappeared! I knew it was there, but I absolutely could not see it. It was truly, truly freaky – I knew there was a bright yellow school bus about 100 feet in front of me, but it was completely invisible. The snow blowing off the roof of the bus, plus the water being kicked up from the road, plus (perhaps) the bus’s exhaust , plus (maybe) the fact that the sun was behind us – there was just a blur, a smudge (not even a cloud) moving along the road. No bus anywhere to be seen.
Mundane? Check. Pointless? Check. Something I must share? Check.
Half of Douglas disappears like that sometimes. And one day there were some tallships in the bay, slipping in and out of view, like spaceships in a nexus.
Daggonnit, twickster, don’t scare me like that! I thought you witnessed a bus going over a cliff or something. Yeah, I know, there aren’t too may cliffs in Philly, but still…
Only thing that’s probably scarier than driving in a whiteout situation is driving in a tule fog. You can’t see three feet in front of you! It’s the cause of a lot of chain-reaction pileups on the freeway during certain times of the year. I usually just try to follow a big truck in front of me and hope that the truck will “clear the way” for me. But my bigger worry is always the car behind me.
