White Christmas in . . . New Orleans???

I could hear the sleet falling late last night, and with the streets wet and temps in the low 30s this morning, any chance of slipping out for a little training ride went out the window real fast. By mid-morning the steady sleet and drizzle was starting to accumulate on the car and the police throughout the area were busy closing down roads. We had expected a little bit of what the weatherman was calling "wintery mix." What I didn’t expect was the snow! Some time around mid-afternoon, as I was recovering from overeating at The Mom’s house, we had a solid half-hour of steady snow. Actual snow! This was the first significant snowfall in the city since 1989, so naturally we had to go out and take a little walk in it. It’s around 11 p.m. now and there is still a thin layer of snow covering the car and visible here and there on the ground. Rather bizarre stuff for New Orleans, to be sure. I guess I’ll play it by ear tomorrow riding-wise, since I really don’t know what to expect. All I know for sure is that the cold won’t last for long and by the middle of next week we’ll have high temps in the 70’s.

I guess I had already written off this week training-wise, so although I'm already feeling kind of fat and sluggish, I'm not all that anxious to be out there riding in the cold slush. It will be better soon enough. If I can, I'll slip out tomorrow at some point for an hour or two, but I think I can wait until Monday to get back into the training groove. The Daughter leaves tomorrow night to head back to school in Iowa where the 36 degrees we have here right now is more like the high temperature on a nice day.