Tales from today's commute....

[HLaB]

Going into work, saw these pair of monkeys trying to bully each other out of the way.

LOL

 

[martint235]

I commuted a total of about 50 yards before deciding it was silly in this weather and turning for home.

 

[Nocode]

I left home early to avoid traffic. The wind wasn't too bad - a couple of scary-ish cross-wind moments and an absolutely mental gust when I approached work - the wind tunnel that is Canary Wharf. There's a demolition crane near my work that looks to have been blown-over and caused a bit of damage - road is closed and currently police and fire crew are trying to work out what to do. Other than that saw a couple of fallen trees and a couple of massive puddles/lakes covering nearly 2 lanes of an A road.

Oh, and I spent most of my commute eating the leaves getting blow into my face. Fun times!

 

[martinclive]

Just saw @kevin_cambs_uk cycling in - big respect - @MisterStan and I wimped it

 

[Leodis]

Wet, same old winter commute really, no idea what all this panic is all about.

 

[BSRU]

Sadly a car commute today as I need to pickup a 30kg rotavator at lunch time across the other side of town.
The weather is fine here, heavy rain passed through two hours ago and still a little breezy but lots of tree debris on the roads.
Looking forward to a nice early start tomorrow morning for a nice long ride in.

 

[tadpole]

Head wind as I left my Street put a great big grin on my face as I know that 90% of the 10.5 miles to work would have a tail wind. Wind and rain was not too bad, full wet weather gear for the first time since the winter snows early in the year. One medium sized tree down across the Bristol to Bath cycle path, a nice friendly dog walker warned me of it about half a mile before I got to it. Just pulled it clear of the path and kept going. (back is sore as hell now)
Great ride in, not looking forward to the journey home neither

 

[Origamist]

V wet and windy in Cheshire, but not stormy.

Hopefully the standing water will clear later as it will be my first dark commute in the lanes.

Saw a chap 3 times this morning on a fixed coming from Knutsford - we went a slightly different way but kept seeing each other a junctions. Had a nice chat at Salford Quays.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very wet and very windy in Leicester first thing this morning, still not enough to stop me biking in. Memo to self, need some new waterproof trousers, current pair fell down when I put them on this morning, I haven't worn them for at least 12 months and I am a tad smaller than then.

 

[ianrauk]

Well the howling gale did wake up the household at about 5am this morning. It really was loud. By 7.30 the wind seemed to have died down so set off on the commute. Counted 5 downed trees en route. But apart from that it really wasn't that bad out there. A quick rain shower followed by nice blue skies and sunshine.

 

[Beebo]

Looked out of the window at 7am to see wheelie bins flying down the road, decided not to risk it.
The trains werent running either, But by 8.30 the wind had calmed down a bit and I cycled in.
Guess what, the office is like a ghost town, it seems all overland trains are still not running.

 

[martint235]

Looked out of the window at 7am to see wheelie bins flying down the road, decided not to risk it.
The trains werent running either, But by 8.30 the wind had calmed down a bit and I cycled in.
Guess what, the office is like a ghost town, it seems all overland trains are still not running.

You were probably one of the nutters that cycled past my house

 

[Beebo]

You were probably one of the nutters that cycled past my house

Not today, I went via Plumstead common.
Greenwich Park was closed due to risk of falling trees, so had to skirt round the edge.

 

[DCLane]

Bit wet and a bit windy, but nothing abnormal for West Yorkshire.

 

[potsy]

Did I mention my new rule of having 'rest day Monday'?

Got a feeling our bike racks will be quiet today.