Has anyone been caught in a bizzare moment where normalcy seems to have been shoved out the nearest window? I was once visiting a preserved military battleground from the civil war near Highland Falls in New York during the winter (it was closed, but they didn't do a very good job securing it). It had been snowing interminably for the past few days, and everything was covered in a thick blanket of snow - there was nothing there except monuments half-buried in snow, the frozen Hudson to one side about 80 metres off a perilous drop and an endless expanse of white all around. No sounds either, 'twas eerie, although you'd have to experience the quiet for yourself to appreciate how strange it was.