I beat the Blizzard......

[Skipton]

Sort of.........

I was to start work today at @ 2pm. Blizzard was suppose to start around 3pm
Thinking that they get the timing of these things wrong a lot. I thought I would ride to work and maybe even ride home at 10pm if the storm was not bad yet

Had a awesome ride down the lake front very strong 40mph plus wind out of the North East (tail wind :wink
I could really fly.
The path had just been plowed in the morning after two inches of snow fell on Monday night. but there was lots of drifting snow had to walk the bike a couple times
through big drifts

I sure did collect a lot of snow

you can feel the bike getting heavier with all the snow on it. Had to stop and bounce it a few times to get the snow out of the fenders.

The whole reason I went down the lake was to get cool pics of HUGH of waves hitting the shore......
but the lake is frozen as far as you can see :roll:

Turns out they nailed the forecast started snowing around three pm. And the wind got even stronger 60MPH gusts
good news is the rack I lock up to is safe and indoors

what it looked like outside

Me walking to the train

at the train station

Me happy to be on the train!

Have to walk about a mile after I get to my stop
Crazy snow and wind some drifts bigger then Three feet high in the middle of the main road glad I did not try to ride home :roll:
I may not go get my bike till Friday. :shock: storm is suppose to continue till Three Pm on Thursday
Looks like we are on are way to Two feet of snow
Thanks for looking
Skip

 

[cruisehard]

Crazy adventure man thanks for sharing. Here in Ohio we have like the biggest ice storm ever (The ice-sickle apocalypse) ...trees crashing down....transformers blowing up and lighting up the sky a weird neon purple......downed power lines everywhere, and ice....lots and lots of ice.

 

[Graylock]

Skip.........you snow puppy..............you get my vote for hard core, sweet bike too 8) . We are getting snow storms on the Cape out of two storms. Yesterday it started as snow and by afternoon it started to rain. Things got real slippery on the ride home. Temp this morning is nearly 40 so we will start with the rain and maybe it will turn to rain, sleet, and ice ending with freezing temps to put a nice glaze on, if we are lucky. Anything west of the canal will get more snow. Nantucket may just get bare ground, lucky stiffs. Can't wait till the bike paths clear out.

Graylock

 

[XC204]

Skipton I rode in too I followed the snow plow (Dave the bike plow guy) in the morning. All was fine. I left work at 4:30 normal time and went through Batavia on plowed streets. Not so bad so far even had a tail wind. Got to the Fox river trail and was on my own.This strech is 2.5 mi of the trip. The wind had drifted in the path the whole way. I started to walk it and got 1.5 mi at that point I bailed for the highway (Ill Rt 31) had to cut across the river on the foot bridges in the forest preserve. When I crossed over all traces of the service roads had dissapeared so I walked up this drifted in hill to the highway. The Geneva roads were pretty good. got home in 1 hour and 45 min. then got to clear the driveway and walks.Looked out today .....gotta drive the jeep in to work......afrer I clear the house doors and the driveway again! only one photo will post later. Bad phone picture at start of walk.


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[Tailwinds]

I drove 140mi yesterday in the storm just to chase a bike that turned out to be about a 1965 instead of a 1938, poor old cowboy looked so disappointed to find out he'd been riding it around for years thinking it was "just like" the one he had as a child :roll: :roll: :roll:

We only got 4 inches of ice with a couple inches of snow here, pretty much missed the whole thing.

Got more photos of the storm up in Chicago???? On the radio they said that 3 counties up there have closed their roads completely!?!? Wicked.

 

[X-RAY]

still nothing but rain (and wind) here. i heard that PENNDOT lowered the speed limit to 45 for the whole state, but my roads locally are just wet. schools cancelled, but both my kids have strep throat anyway. my pickup blew up monday goin to work, so im stuck sharing the minivan with my wife for a couple weeks until i get a new motor in it. so im glad the snow hasnt hit here cause i dont have 4wheel drive at the moment. oh yeah, 20 miles from here the groundhog DID NOT see his shadow!!!

 

[subadrew]

-14 yesterday morning and -11 this morning on my ride to work. Road are fine but man that's cold. I think grease in the nexus congeals a bit when it's frosty.

 

[Skipton]

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Graylock
You guys sure get the mix of weather

cruisehard
Man I will take Two feet of snow any day, Over ice-sickle apocalypse :wink:

Xc204
No shame! In driving the Jeep to work today 8)

subadrew
The real cold air will be here in a day or two :shock:
I find My Nexus shifts funny and maybe even higher rolling resistance :shock: when real cold 10 degrees or less

"Busy" Intersection of Damen and Foster ave around 9:30am Wednesday

Side street

Park by my house

Oh, work called and said STAY HOME! :mrgreen:
Thanks guys Stay warm!

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Looks cold.

 

[UTR1]

Cool pics....
And I thought I was cold 2 day....

 

[Fe2O3]

Skip you are HARDCORE!!!

I'm up in Lake Co. our roads are closed due to "Civil Emegancy" they said anyone caught driving will be ticketed.

 

[Buck Masterson]

Kankakee County here. I have been shoveling since 6:30 this morning, it is now 12:12. I'm beat! I thought about going for a little snow ride, but I still can't get to the garage door because it is drifted over. I'm not even going to attempt it until the wind stops. I believe we took the blunt of it. Been a while since we had snow like this. All of our County roads are still closed, and I just got report that they shut down I-57 South of I-80 because the plows can't keep up with the drifting.

 

[Fe2O3]

Buck - I was up 'till 1 am last night shoveling. Evey 2 hrs or so. It was pretty light stuff last night.My am shift wasn't bad just where the city plw coivered the front of the drive. They said that on U.S. 20 Marango to Rockford there was a 6' drift accross the highyway ( mostly crop fields there) imagine hittig that!

 

[A.Messina]

This is my beach bungalow by the Atlantic Ocean, I thought I had the snow blues. You guys are getting your butts kicked!

 

[HotRodJen]

ur hardcore man !

 

[Tater]

Heavens, that is some brutal weather up there. Why climb mountains when you can just ride a bicycle to and from work. :shock:

 

[B607]

The power just came back on here...off nearly 24 hrs due to ice. I'm south of Skipton about 3 hrs and we missed the big snow but got an ice storm instead. 3° above right now. Gary

 

[blackdiamond]

Those two VWs are shivering :shock:

 

[Tailwinds]

The power just came back on here...off nearly 24 hrs due to ice. I'm south of Skipton about 3 hrs and we missed the big snow but got an ice storm instead. 3° above right now. Gary

Hey we're practically neighbors, I'm in Edwardsville...
Our house has a boiler and radiators but uses a small transformer for the controls and flu damper. I pulled the battery from my Jeep, wired it to a little automotive power inverter so I could get 120v to the boiler controls. I was really impressed with myself.... then minutes later the power came back on :roll:

 

[Skipton]

Yep, the cold weather is here! 8 degrees this morning
My sons found a good sledding hill.....

This maybe the biggest hill in Chicago :wink:

I don't need it today but got the family car dug out

Side streets still bad..

But better then the alleys

Main roads look good, the sun sure does help

Going to work in a little bit
I will ride the Schwinn home, Update to come!