I wimped out Thursday, the forecast the night before was insane citing 60mph winds, the forecast in the morning was still crazy wind & rain and it was still chucking it down when I hit my kind of go/nogo decision point to ride. So I drove instead, and apart from one massive flooded section I had to get through it was uneventful and had even stopped raining by the time Id parked up, and thats actually how it stayed for the rest of the day, a bit windy, gusty for sure, but dry, so actually the forecasts were complete nonsense,and Id have been fine riding in.
so I decided to work from home today and managed to fit a nice lunchtime local ride in,dry sunny, some of the less travelled roads are certainly worse for wear in terms of mud, debris, water etc from the storm. But of course today with the wind it was just a constant near 18mph, didnt matter which direction you went, you felt it, as the tail of the storm moves off. And of course bitterly cold now, almost full winter gear now.
