Skirting the Weather

It was amazing to wake up this morning and find the streets dry. After the consistently bleak forecasts I had been left with a solid expectation of total washout for today, but of course I still left the alarm on for the usual time, just in case. Well, the case turned out to be that it had not rained all night, so I fired up the laptop to have a quick look at the radar. Indeed, it looked pretty bad to the south and west, but it also looked like there was a window of an hour or two before anything significant would arrive in town. Naturally, I was already running late by the time I had checked the radar and found my blinky lights, so I knew I'd missed the group. Pretty soon, though, I caught up with Joe who told me there were only four riders up the road. Now as you know, today was a "long ride" day, but considering the impending rain and the small turnout, I knew they would be turning around early. Still, I was rather surprised to see the four of them heading back long before I had gotten anywhere close to Williams Blvd., so I just continued on. Somewhere between Williams and the parish line I started to feel a little drizzle, so that's where we turned around. Up ahead the sky initially looked dark, but as we rode it got lighter and lighter, and I arrived back home having successfully skirted the rain. Now the question was whether I'd be able to make it in to work without getting wet.

Stepping out of the shower I could already hear the sound of wet tires on the street outside, but it didn't look like it was raining very much, so I packed a dry shirt and headed downtown. As always seems to happen, there was more rain the closer I got, but it was never enough to get me really wet, so somehow I had again dodged the weather. An hour later it started raining in earnest, and it has only gotten worse since then. The sky is dark and foggy, and the top floors of the taller buildings are hidden in the low-hanging clouds. Oh well. At least I got in a good hour's training ride and my feet are still dry!