Subj : Re: Ice and snow
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Jan 22 2020 22:08:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-18-20  06:39 <=-

 > Having never managed to learn to ride a bike, I have no experience with
 > either good weather or foul weather riding
 JM> I generally ride mine regardless of the weather.  I just dress for
 JM> it. But if I had to chose one, I would rather ride home in rain/snow
 JM> than going to work since once home I change into something dry.  :)

That makes perfect sense.... unless you were able to store a dry set of
clothes at work to change into in the circumstances... ;)

 > So then, as long as you can manage to get yourself to the state road,
 > you can ride pretty easily... :) 
 JM> Except for the crazy drivers, yes.  :)
 JM> They are bad enough in dry weather but one flake falling and they're
 JM> off the rails. 

Up north here, there's less angst about snowflakes... except for the
first storm of the season, sometimes... ;)  But we do also have our
share of crazy drivers all the same... 

 JM> I live about five or so blocks from campus.  The grounds people are
 JM> usually good about cleaning sidewalks so once I got to campus the rest
 JM> of the ride was a breeze.  

That's not all that far... and when you know there will be cleared
sidewalks once you get there..... not bad...

ttyl      neb

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