A few inches shouldn't bring the world to a grinding halt, but it did. It was coming down pretty good yesterday to the extent school was cancelled for Sephie. When I pulled into the driveway with the 4Runner, a BMW 318ti tried making the corner above and ended up finding the storm drain under all the snow. I pulled the tow rope out of the gear box and pulled him back onto the street. This morning I extracted the 4Runner from a fair sized drift and gave the sidewalk a shovel-width clearing before going to work. I cleared out everything after work and couldn't help but think of my great-uncle Sisto. 11 or so years ago Sisto had finished clearing his sidewalks of lake effect snow in Kenosha. He took off his boots and gloves before sitting down in his living room chair. The coroner's report said he had an MI after all that shoveling. Sisto had emigrated here with my great-grandparents in 1912 and was a typical Itailian. In his old age he was still a warm man with a great sense of humor. But he had a typical old Roman physique, maybe 100lbs overweight and not fit. I'm not too worried about sitting down after shoveling. I'm in better shape and I'm 35 years younger.
The up-side of all this snow is the potential for cross country skiing. If it doesn't get into the 70's in the next week or so, Monona Golf Course should be groomed and the trails should hold.
I did some eBaying the other day. I picked up a Flyte Celcius 9 frame pretty cheap. It has an EBB and deraileur hanger so it will be as flexible as the Fe2+ for setting up. I might put the Reba on it, or another Bontrager fork. We'll see.
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those things all break
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