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Here in Birmingham we have been iced in since Sunday afternoon.  As in, schools and businesses shut down.  Roads impassable.  Ice everywhere.  Just this morning, when it was 20 degrees, I debated on riding when I saw this tweet from Bike Skirt friend, Dan:

Fellow bike commuters: Protect your hands and face today! The wind is wicked today. My face is burning!

I HATE riding in that and have super sensitive eyes, so I decided to walk to the meeting.  Within 2 feet I was glad I did: ice everywhere.  At the bottom of the hill by my house was a huge ice sheet and I saw a Semi nearly lose it.  Not everywhere is like this, but there were ice spots the entire way to the coffee shop. No snow plows, little sand and salt and temperatures below 30 degrees is a problem here.  Add to it that I have small, racing tires and I am walking it.

nothing but ice

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Walking was slippery and boy was I glad for the snow boots my mom, who lives in Milwaukee, sent me!

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I hear that the rest of the country is insanely cold too.  Tricia over at Let’s go Ride a Bike seems to be having similar issues. Do you have any stories of icy good (or bad) ness?

To getting back on the road!

Super scary to watch this truck slide down the hill

too much ice for this girls bike ride!