Commute in: 46 degrees. 20 mph wind from the south. Brought extra clothes.
Get to work. Realize I forgot the bag with the extra clothes (and the work clothes to change into). I am wearing holey, grunged out purple sweat pants over tights that used to be white... Go to bookstore where there are 8 or 9 pairs of XXL and XL sweat pants... and a single "storm duds" bottoms, size Small, which fortunately fits.
Plow through that wind to LBS and roasted at 52 degrees, to look at Dahon catalog because LBS guy emailed that yea, they're going to sell them so I can make an order for a folding bike. Oh, my! There are so many! P:ut air in tyres (let em go a little soft 'cause it's my snow bike and last time I rode it there was snow and the studs grab better with a little less pressure). Flew back with firm tyres and the wind behind me.
Temperature careens to 26. Wind shifts and increases. Wild stsorm blows through. I look out to check on my bicycle and for the third time, the other bike's light is on... so I go out and turn it off because mine was turned on the last time, too... and there's a sheet of ice over everything. (Karma-rattles on whatever dweeb thinks it is cute to turn our lights on. The other person can take his/hers off; mine's ductaped on but I"ll have to take it off anyway 'cause the batteries are dead now.)
It's 13 at 6:00 when I start home and there's horizontal snow and 35 mph winds... but it's at my back. And that Gazelle and its 50 pounds is being blown right up the (so-called) hill... but it's so heavy and studly that those little places I have to go with cross winds are no problem, and around here drivers don't freek out, they just slow down and stay home. And it's not so snowy you can't see, and because it is at my back I can see, and fortunately it's enough snow to reflect light well because my headlight is dead and I am going to put a little card on it that says why? with a tear ... I mean, this weird person could just steal the lights or do damage... why just turn the lights on? (We do have some people with odd compulsions here, whose meds may need some tweaking. I just don't know.) It's also weird that there weren't limbs down but maybe that's more with NS winds if I'm going East.
I get home and the winds pick up even more - glad to be here!!!