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Driving Fast Through Coastal Mountain Fog Alone At Night

It’s darker than night, the dense purplish black blanket of coastal fog. The road is weaving through the mountains, up in the cloud layer. There is no one else on the highway. Blaring at 75mph with 25ft of visibility, particles of mist uneventfully obliviate into the windshield, condensing and amassing a blur that the wipers and defroster struggle to clear. Forest canopies occasionally darken the road even further, their unseen canopies only known by their shapeless shadow and a momentary gray trunk. If it were not for the occasional deer that crosses the road, this would not be terribly unsafe.