The closer they got to Poway, the thick cloud of smoke turned the sky as dark as pitch black night.

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Riding the dark ocean in the pitch of night before all hell breaks loose, sending up a cloud of heavy black rain and fire, throwing heavy equipment into the icy water, casting men to their deaths at the bottom of the sea.

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The night was dark as pitch or coal.

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By now it was pitch dark, and as we drove through the night, we passed open fires beside the road.

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Many of them, Raj says, were pitch-black at night until OMC-powered lanterns started piercing the dark.

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