snow + bikes = misery

Okay, I officially just experienced bike riding in the snow... and it is even worse than I imagined. What may look like a picturesque snowfall feels like ice pellets being thrown at your face on an angle, that somehow perfectly lines up with your eyes, making it rather difficult to see. Pleasant? I think not. As I was biking home in this misery just now, I began to think about why in hell the Dutch do not abandon this whole biking thing when the weather is bad outside. I mean, Long Island Jewish Retiree's give up on the state of New York all together when winter strikes, moving all the way to Florida for a few months to avoid the bad weather. But no, the Dutch keep on biking. And then every once in a while you will see the person who is biking while holding an umbrella over their head which as you can imagine doesn't make me any happier to know that that person is nice and dry while I am not. I mean, I can barely hold an umbrella and walk without it somehow flipping inside out...