Just rode to the store in -7ºC air. After last night’s -21ºC ride, it felt like a Hawaiian vacation!
My goal is to avoid getting in a car for anything personal the entire winter. Sometimes I have to drive the kids, but for my own business around town I am sticking to the bike.
Of course, nature may have her own ideas.
Crises in the East
Since 30 December, Russian ships have been trapped by ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, part of the Gulf of Sakhalin, and rescue attempts have so far been frustrated. The drama, redolent of the 1983 ice crisis, apparently involves ten ships, including a research vessel and what are described as three “fishing boats”. With crews totalling 400, it is more likely that these are factory or processing ships. TASS report talks of ice approaching two metres thick:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/crises-in-east.html
Also dozens of districts stay blacked out in the Moscow Region after days of freezing rain and snowfalls. Ice storms and strong winds broke power lines prompting the authorities to call an “emergency situation regime” in 18 districts and 4 towns:
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/01/03/38608557.html
Crises in the East
Since 30 December, Russian ships have been trapped by ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, part of the Gulf of Sakhalin, and rescue attempts have so far been frustrated. The drama, redolent of the 1983 ice crisis, apparently involves ten ships, including a research vessel and what are described as three “fishing boats”. With crews totalling 400, it is more likely that these are factory or processing ships. TASS report talks of ice approaching two metres thick
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/crises-in-east.html
Also dozens of districts stay blacked out in the Moscow Region after days of freezing rain and snowfalls.
Ice storms and strong winds broke power lines prompting the authorities to call an “emergency situation regime” in 18 districts and 4 towns:
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/01/03/38608557.html
Do you have one of these?
http://www.ktrakcycle.com/home.html
Hope you have frostbite insurance!