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Bo Zarts

(26,259 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 03:42 PM Nov 9

Kind of how fog FEELS in a fire lookout tower .. it can be claustrophobic after a couple of days

And this was after the visibility finally improved from nil to about 1/8 mile (and yes, your world is basically one big whiteout):



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Kind of how fog FEELS in a fire lookout tower .. it can be claustrophobic after a couple of days (Original Post) Bo Zarts Nov 9 OP
Yikes! mahina Nov 9 #1
That's scary! Diamond_Dog Nov 9 #3
This would be hard to take for more than a few hours. Irish_Dem Nov 9 #2
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes..takes on a new depressing reality. chouchou Nov 9 #4
LIFR, like being inside a ping-pong ball. Ocelot II Nov 9 #5
I'll bet wendyb-NC Nov 9 #6
My office used to be on the 21st floor of a 25 story building. rsdsharp Nov 9 #7
At least... 2naSalit Nov 9 #8
Oh, my. I can absolutely imagine it and claustrophobic would not begin to cover it... hlthe2b Nov 9 #9
At first I thought the full image wasn't coming through.... Imagine how we'll all feel when the internet looks like this erronis Nov 9 #10

rsdsharp

(11,864 posts)
7. My office used to be on the 21st floor of a 25 story building.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 04:07 PM
Nov 9

Sometime cloud cover was low enough that there was no view. It was like working wrapped in cotton batting.

hlthe2b

(113,192 posts)
9. Oh, my. I can absolutely imagine it and claustrophobic would not begin to cover it...
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 04:12 PM
Nov 9

I've experienced blizzards >24 hours when you did not go far outside your front door, seeing virtually nothing for hours at a time in front of you, and deep snow gave no landmarks. I have a friend who died west of Boulder, having done so (though she may have had a heart attack--no autopsy was done).

So, yeah, that fog would certainly feel isolating.

erronis

(23,081 posts)
10. At first I thought the full image wasn't coming through.... Imagine how we'll all feel when the internet looks like this
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 05:43 PM
Nov 9

Sorry - very off-topic. But isolation is scary in many forms. That's why prisons use it as punishment.

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