Good Timing

The view of damp streets through fogged-up windows made me check the weather radar this morning.  It looked a little sketchy, but most of the heavy stuff seemed to be long gone, so I hit the road around 6 am to see what the morning levee ride had to offer.  There was a pretty stiff wind blowing, but it was still warm and humid despite a rapidly approaching cold front. I wondered out loud where that cool air we'd been promised was.  Up on the levee there was only a skeleton crew.  Something about the strong shifting wind and threat of rain must have kept a lot of people at home, and we numbered only five as we headed upriver.  Most of the way out seemed to be headwind and crosswind, and we spend a lot of time struggling to maintain 22 mph.  I knew we wouldn't be riding all the way out to Destrehan.  When the group is this small and the speed this low we almost always turn around early.  We were our around the Country Club when I noticed a red blinky light about a minute up the road.  We were working pretty hard, but we were just not chipping into that gap much at all.  It didn't take me long to figure out that it must be Donald.  After we crossed the parish line we seemed to be closing the gap just a little, and after a few rotations I decided to push the pace up another notch. When I pulled off, though, I was surprised to find that our little group had kind of shattered, so I eased up and we all regrouped around The Dip where we turned around.

As I turned left off of Oak Street, and Zack turned right, I glanced to my left and saw it.  The sky was absolutely black out to the southwest.  I thought to myself, "good timing" and didn't waste any time on my way back to the house. By the time I left for work about an hour later, the temperature had dropped nearly ten degrees and there was a Tulane Tech tweet on my phone about the power having been knocked out somewhere on campus. On the plus side, it never did rain.

After a long meeting on campus I headed to the office down Audubon Street where I noticed the nicely posed skeletons above and just had to stop and take a picture.  It seems that people are really getting into Halloween this year.  I guess it helps that it falls on a weekend this year.