More Snow

So, we broke the record for the most snow in WI in recorded history, some 80+ inches so far - this weekend's a miserable 8 hours of rain!!! and then cooling enough for 4+ (in Madison, north of here it was all snow)) of snow and now, for the next 5 days well be in single digits. The roads, you might guess, are now skating rinks and will be for at least a couple days. If you didn't get out and scrape the car, it'll be an ice cube. A long while back a friend moved here from CA and one morning he woke up to find his car encased in an inch or so of ice, his car and everything else on the outside. Not a big deal but I can still recall his downright befuddlement - "the whole world is covered in ice!" as he tried to scrape (scraping, the biggest PIA of the whole winter thing here) enough off to be able to even get in to his car. W/ the drop to sub zero, if you didn't get out and clean things up ... good luck!

I'm exempt from this and shoveling in a bad way - tore the last little bit of my meniscus a week ago 'gamboling' in the snow w/ my son. Just bad luck and, admittedly a pre-existing condition but he tackled me while I was on my knees and there I was I was, in trouble. Having surgery on Tuesday, 4th knee 2nd meniscectomy in a year. Be back on the bike in 2 weeks, tops, I hope ...

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Riding in the snow

yeah, Madison but a former ... icon of Madison had one of these stupid blog thingees and said, something along the lines of (mid-winter, snowiest Dec. in blah years) "bicyclist who ride in this snow should be taken out and shot" - now not to dwell on his descent from Radical to ... well, executioner; me, a well-known snow rider, w/ apologies to John Prine:
Please don't Shoot me for Riding in the Snow
Oh, please don't shoot me for riding in the snow
I've already had my brush w/ death
and I've got miles to go.
Cars and trucks
try my luck
Jack frost will bite my ears
Sure don't need no lawyers,
giving them idea-rs.

Went out this morning
bike lane full of snow
the city bus done crowd me
the 'share the road' sticker ain't so.
SUV don't see me
talking on the phone
better I guess than under the wheels
to take a face full of snow.

Oh please don't execute me
for riding in the snow
Even Brown will run you down
If you fall by the side of the road
Handle bars are no match for cars
My life is in my hands,
Don't need any lawyers,
Making any plans.