Originally Posted by
mgw4jc
I feel okay skipping the ride yesterday after seeing the rain and tornado watches / warnings all day long. Some damaged homes and other buildings I hear. Local schools are on 2 hour delay.
At 4:30am the strong winds woke me and my wife up. It was blowing at 15-20mph with gusts over 30. And thus I had a fun ride to work. Some gentle inclines required a much lower gear and standing up to pedal. I stopped twice to push blown-over trash bins which were laying in the road. And through one neighborhood I dodged quite a bit of small tree branch debris.
I've been known to change my route after winds like that -- especially since that day a few years back when I climbed and lifted the bike over a blowdown on the MUP, only to find out two days later that trunk was lined with poison ivy runners. :O That front passed us with nothing more dramatic than flooding, and news of a couple deaths of people who didn't turn around and then drowned.
Nothing too dramatic this morning besides a few snow flurries. WTH? It was 70F three days ago. Apparently the warm weather at the beginning of the week rushed things, spring-wise. Daffodils and our japonica bush are blooming -- the japonica normally blossoms out around Easter, and we're still 3 weeks away from Ash Wednesday!? And I was treated to a killdeer's broken wing act in the parking lot, so it must be nesting.