On the long stretches of highway that span the city's lagoons, only rare police headlamps pierced the rush-hour fog.
Because Friday's two-hour fog delay compounded Thursday's three-hour delay, Tiger Woods did not tee off until Friday evening, and he made it through only six holes before play was suspended.
The 34-foot-wide clock face still has large Roman numerals that accurately provide the hour, barring fog or daylight saving time.
The club professionals gave Whistling Straits rave reviews in June, even though the championship's final round was delayed six hours by fog.
Jeff Freeman won that event with a one-under-par 287 despite a 75 during the final round, which was interrupted for six hours by fog.
And some of the Jumpers have had close calls: there are tales of flipping, crash landings or becoming lost for hours in fog so thick they worried about being struck by an unseen tanker.
Twenty-nine hours later — fog, a snapped suspension spring, a cracked wheel bearing and many wrong turns — we limped into Bodhgaya on Dec. 31, angry, tired and in no mood for epiphanies.
International flights en route to Sydney were diverted to Brisbane and Melbourne and domestic flights delayed by up to four hours as fog blankets the city for the second day in a row.
He made the comments in a prepared statement moments before airline executives and dignitaries, including Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Senator Charles E. Schumer, boarded the 162-passenger A-320 Airbus, and then were kept waiting for nearly three hours by fog.
During the next few hours, the fog enclosed the men and the balloon struck the surface continually — "8 touches in 30m," "bumpings every 5th minute," and "paid visits to the surface and stamped it about every 50 meters" — nevertheless, "humour good," Andrée wrote.
During the next few hours, the fog enclosed the men and the balloon struck the surface continually—"8 touches in 30m," "bumpings every 5th minute," and "paid visits to the surface and stamped it about every 50 meters"—nevertheless, "humour good," Andrée wrote.
