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Bo Zarts

(26,176 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):



Bitterroot Range - Idaho Panhandle
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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

wendyb-NC

(4,528 posts)
6. I'll bet
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 03:55 PM
Nov 9
Where did it all go? Is anything out there? Where did the view go? Will it ever be back?

rsdsharp

(11,556 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

(112,148 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

(21,972 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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