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I heard that 2015 is the wettest year on record in Dallas/Fort Worth. Don't I know it! This past May, and now again in November, we got rain for days on end. I wouldn't mind the precipitation, except that it plays havoc with the bike trails on which I ride. Today, for example, I had to improvise like crazy to get my 34 miles. It was not pretty. At one point, I walked my bike on a grassy knoll (!) for a quarter of a mile to get around an inundated trail beside a lake. All's well that ends well. I rode 427.6 miles in November, which gives me 4,424.4 miles for the year, with one month to go. The image (click to enlarge) shows me near one of the flooded underpasses. I put my iPhone 5c on a ledge, propped it up with a piece of debris and a weed, and used the 10-second timer to allow me to get in place near the railing. Apart from the flooding, riding conditions were excellent today. The wind chill was 43º when I left my house and 44º when I returned, three hours later. As you can see, I was bundled up against the chill.