On May 11 the North wind is blowing, hard. The temperature is forecast to slip to 4'C tonight. Why does this feel so cold today, while in December this would be walk around in shorts and t-shirt weather?
On May 12 the folks in southern Manitoba cities will once again demonstrate their ignorance of life in rural areas and breach a dike holding back the Assiniboine River just outside of Portage la Prairie, in order to save approximately 900 more urban residences downstream. 150 rural residences will be sacrificed for this cause. What is not reported in this "sacrifice" is the difficulty of moving farm animals and trying to save agricultural implements and assets. This does not consider the likelihood of lost income. But all of this does not matter, because the 150 (x2?) votes of rural Manitobans does not count as much as the 900 (x2?) votes of urban residents. That's the political reality of it. The current governing party also knows that it'll be a hot day in heaven when those rural voters vote for them anyway, so what's to lose? So the farmers and rural residents gather their belongings, load up the cattle, and pigs, and chickens, and cats, and dogs, and trailer them away, while blithe and smug urbanites nod sagely at the apparent logic of saving 900 houses over thousands of acres of agricultural assets.
It's a cold, windy, Manitoba Spring day indeed.
Ride report
in: 6'C wind 35ks NW
out: 9'C wind 25ks NW
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