How can heavy black ash travel c. sixty miles and get under my carport?

[MerlintheMad]

First thing this morning, metaphysical crap is messing with me. I say "metaphysical" because there is not, and will not, be any explanation as to how a silver dollar sized space of my hood had solid, black upraised chunks of solid black ash on it; sitting there all night. At first glance, I thought it was the black you often see in bird poop. I sprayed it down and dropped a cotton cloth over it, letting it soak a bit, then started to gently pinch in up. It didn't dissolve. WTH!? What IS this stuff? And I saw it for what it was, ash. The wildfires are sixty miles and more south of here. And besides that, how in tarnation did I drive around yesterday evening and NOT see such a blatantly obvious object marring my pristine hood? Inconceivable. It got on my hood after I parked, UNDER our carport, facing away from any approaching ash. This kind would be too heavy to travel all this way anyway. So, somehow, it got on my hood. And that, of course, makes me suspect everyone and anyone, for whatever reasons they might have. I just hate stuff like this.

No, I did not take a picture. By the time I realized it wasn't guano, I had destroyed the "evidence". Heh!

 

[OliverNuther]

Maybe make a car cover out of all that free plastic you keep finding?

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Squirrels?

 

[MerlintheMad]

I figure that a closer, contained fire did it. Herriman is only a "few" miles away and a much, much smaller fire (didn't make the neewz on my end that's for sure; a friend told me about the Herriman fire the next day). And one final cluster of black ashes wended its way up, over and down, while I was parked at a convenience store where my wife was using the facilities. I was parked there for a good ten minutes. In the dimness of evening I did not see anything land on my hood. We went directly home from there, 3.5 miles, never exceeding forty MPH. Parked, got out and went inside. From where I sit you cannot see where the ashes landed (forward of the faux air vents). So my original complaint (...how in tarnation did I drive around yesterday evening and NOT see such a blatantly obvious object maring my pristine hood?) was unwarranted. As is suspicion. I need to calm down.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

I still think squirrels....