Click on the imageThe day dawned with the promise of rain, rain, and more rain - SEVERE Thunderstorms is the way the Weather Channel phrased it. This is a snapshot of the rain AFTER we got home. The vertical line is I-45. The squiggly black line across the center of the image is the Montgomery County / Harris County line. We live just above where the line makes the most northern bump just to the west of I-45. The area where we were riding is just above the large red-yellow blotch that is just to the east of I-45 and leading into the next county.
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We got a phone call early in the morning to notify us of the cancellation of a couple of riders due to the weather so I posted a cancel notice on the forum, but we rode up to the meeting place just in case the others riders didn't check the forum before heading out in the morning.
Once we made it to the meeting place the sun came out and it started getting warm so we decided to hit the road for a little bit. We headed east from I-45 on League Line road, north on 75 to Willis, and then east again on whatever was available. He hit one FM that t-boned into a couple of smaller roads and we just picked one. It t-boned into a dirt road so we turned around and headed back the way we had come. The clouds got very intense at that point moving to the south which was not good since the majority of the storms had been moving E/NE up to that point. It also got very cold all of a sudden so it wasn't looking good at that point.
I gave it the gas and we headed west in the direction of New Waverly and 75 S. The wind got VERY strong coming into town and it started sprinkling on us about 5 miles outside of town. Once we hit town I decided to head for I-45 S and try to outrun the storm. 45 is only about a mile west of 75 but we got caught in the very front of the storm with high wind and strong rain. There was no place to head to for cover so I continued on in the downpour and we got on the freeway and cranked it up.
We were out of the majority of the rain within about a couple of miles and at our speed (ahem) we were soon far ahead of the storm and you could feel the temperature heading back up. Rode straight back to the house and called it quits for the day. Only put 85 miles on the bike and most of that was straight line riding.
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