Thougth I'd seen it all

[Lexx_Luthor]

Driving back from bakery today in heavy traffic, nearing a bridge being built with a good 200ft crane poking high in the sky. Far beyond were cumulus clouds -- you know, flight sim clouds -- moving, then stopping.

 

WhaaaTF??? The clouds they all just stopped dead. Then they were moving again. Just watch the traffic, I didn't see anything, move along ... actually sit there in neutral.

 

Then I looked at the crane again, and the clouds were moving. The world still worked. Then the clouds stopped again, frozen in place.

 

Ahh. It was the crane moving a little bit, either from working (guys were there) or, as it was a quite windy day, the top of the crane might sway in the wind although you might not *see* that itself, and on occasion the crane's movement would match the apparent motion of the clouds, making the clouds look motionless against the crane. I was measuring the cloud motion against the crane. Bad move.

 

Incidentally, a minute before this, I was sitting in traffic and "felt" I was moving backwards and I had to force myself to look aside at something else (concrete wall barriers). I was measuring against the car just in front -- Very very bad move ... a good way to roll back into sombody's front bumper if you interpret that as the car ahead moving forward.

 

Had a quite visually confusting day. When I climbed radio towers, on the guy wire types, on a good gusty windy day you could FEEL the swaying at the top, but with the ground so far below, you could not see the sway. That was always a rush.