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No flooding (yet)

Rode from Cathedral south early (6:20) and there was no flooding anywhere. 

No flooding

Potomac still high, but it wasn't flooded this morning.  Rock Creek is fine, too.

Minor flooding

Just a few puddles in RCP, but the Potomac, from the Kennedy Center south, is very high.  Wouldn't be surprised to see flooding there later in the day.

Need a bike light recommendation

I need to upgrade my headlight in a big way from the CatEye OptiCube I use now.  If anybody has a recommendation on a decent system, I'd appreciate it.

Thx.

Zoo path open

Didn't ride that way last night, but it was open this morning.

Thx to everybody who mailed update last week.  I wish I had checked the box earlier since I could have ridden in last week.  I'll try and keep up with it better in the future.

Same old w/ the trees down by Kennedy Center.  I guess that's not officially park service land there, so it could be a while before anybody gets around to clearing it. 

Zoo path closed

Trail is in decent shape, but zoo cutout is closed.  Only a few slushy puddles and snow patches, but tons of trees/limbs down all over the place.  There was crew working on the trees down by Dupont.  Across from the Kennedy Center there are a couple trees down across the trail, but you can duck under one and squeeze by another.

Snowy pictures

http://www.flickr.com/groups/washcycle/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/4317035353/

Thanks to M.V. Jantzen for these.

I'm not even going to try the trail until Wed, but if anybody rides, please let me know what it's like.

Sticks and puddles

There is a ton of debris all along the trail, and puddles in all the places you'd expect.  RCP hasn't gone over the banks yet by the bridge north of P St, though.

And once you get out of the park that wind is no joke. 

100% ice free to Tilden

Even the dirty water ice going uphill on Tilden toward CT Ave is gone.  Puddles in the usual places, but overall the trail in best shape since the storm.

99.44 % ice free

What little ice there is on the trail south of Cathedral will probably melt off by late morning.