Can We Get A Little Help, Here?

We're feeling pretty beat up by the weather here in Vermont. The week of New Year's was downright nuts: wind chills in the -30s and severe health warnings about going outside with exposed skin. And, gray skies added to the misery.

And now the flip-side: a January thaw that is just as miserable. Everything is glazed with thick ice or rotting with snowmelt.I've been running in trail shoes on sidewalks, or running in the street and dodging traffic.

This is the riverfront path in front of my building:

Somewhere under this mess is a sidewalk in Winooski:




























And while I'm happy it's not -17, the probably with 41 and rainy is a few inches of really cold water forming a black-long pond where a sidewalk might be: