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Be careful what you wish for

Good one.

Well, I updated my vblessons website to include a chapter on exceptions.

It's not exceptional.

But I think it'll do for a beginner's course.

There are still people who need to learn that. We just saw an On Error in .NET this very day.

I suppose that was an exception, though.

I just realized that the sun is out. It's been foggy for so long that I didn't notice the sun, at first, but that's what all that light is coming from.

Went to Costco last night @ 6:45 and the fog was already starting to set in. Coming home @ 8:15 it was pea soup. I hadn't driven in thick fog fog quite a while. Some parts were out in the country, those parts you couldn't see ahead much, it was all about keeping the car between the center line and edge of the road. Then hope everyone else was doing the same.

Not a good situation to be driving in.

I got to a point on a road where some fog was so thick that I had to open the driver side door to see the yellow line. I knew the fog, while thick, only extended a very short distance, which was the case. There was no place to pull over, though, so I just had to make my way through it. Fortunately, it was in a place where there was essentially zero traffic.

I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?

I couldn't decide, so I was killed and have been a zombie ever since.

Eew. Cold brains.

Only mildly cold.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?

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This happened to me with my kids in the car. It was scary. It was on freeway 580 just as it goes over the Altamont Pass. I could see but the road was flooding. I slowed way down and tried to stay out of the way of those who were still going fast. They started hydroplaning and wrecking. I must have seen a dozen wrecks happen right in front of me in about a half mile stretch. It was crazy.

I was driving a semi in a hailstorm, once. Within the space of just a few seconds, hail stones knocked both windshield wiper blades off, at which point I couldn't see anything out of the windshield. I pretty much drifted over to the shoulder and waited for the storm to pass. I didn't have much choice.

This page is dull. It's also almost finished. Perhaps we can turn the page?

Well, that didn't do it. Off to do something else.

I've lowered my posts per page count and also number of threads to show per forum. It has greatly improved site performance.