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16 January 2007
OMG Snow! It's snowing in P-town! 2 inches or so in pi's hood! w00t!
San Antonio freezed under last night. Schools are closed, my work day was delayed, and now cancelled, due to highway closures. I've been trying to call my supervisor to figure out what's going on, but he didn't go to work. The airport just closed.
My boyfriend, who's from Massachusetts, is laughing his ass off, because it's only 31°F!
2-3 inches in VNC! Yay SNOW!! So weird. Fluffy. It's all quiet out there.
I've made the beginnings of a snow man. It's about basketball sized, but the snow on the ground isn't thick enough to get the easy self-compacting rolling action going on.
It's just so cool and neat outside I'm extremely tempted to pop open a tent and spend the day camping in the fluffy stuff. I'd love a foot or three so I could make a snow cave!
But, eh. Not likely. 2-3 feet would seriously fuck up the PDX area, too.
Should i brave the 2 inches of snow and ice and go in to work? Or should i just make hot chocolate/marshmallows, light a fire and watch X-files reruns? Hmmm what to do, what to do?!!!!
ramix: Unless you have a 4WD or AWD with chains or studs I'd stay the fuck home and rock out the hot chocolate. And even if you have said car - I'm watching the news and PDX is pretty much gridlocked so it's kinda moot. Every single freeway has major accidents and stuck cars and semitrucks.
I have to go walk twelve blocks uphill through the snow to a dentist appointment and I'm still sick. This is the worst setting for a fluffy snowstorm ever.
Unless you have a 4WD or AWD with chains or studs I'd stay the fuck home and rock out the hot chocolate.
How much snow do you have?
Here in "America's Dairyland(TM)" we got 3-4 inches Sunday night, I tried to winnow this into a chance to "work from home monday," but instead it just meant I came in an hour and a half late (and took the bus).
While I was waiting for the bus yesterday, I would watch cars lose control making a left turn near my house. I would've thought it was bit more funny if my car wasn't parked so close by (no one was injured).
It's been snowing here since last night. There's about four inches of new snow on top of what was still here from last week. It can stop any time, kthxbi.
Hang on, that's not where I was thinking it is. Was. Whatever. Thought that was where 5 forks off onto the Marquam Bridge going North, but it's not. That's a bridge approach looking west, right? I ought to be able to place it but somehow I can't.
I went for a nice night time walk in the snow. I went up the road and got some hot chocolate and then walked back towards home and just kept walking past it. The creek and park was real quiet, too. A few people out driving, mostly carefully. Most folks seem to be running chains or studs.
drezdn wrote: How much snow do you have?
Doesn't matter. The metropolitan PDX/Vancouver area is barely set up to deal with snow. A half-inch to an inch here is a big deal, and the hundreds and hundreds of crashes and abandoned cars here are proof of that. People just weren't prepared for it and/or decided to drive like idiots.
I don't know about Portland but it looks like Vancouver has one or two wheeled snow plow trucks, and a couple of salt/sand trucks. Plus, the snow here seems to quickly turn to hard ice because of the incessent melting/refreezing. It's just not cold enough here for good sticky snow.
deborah can send us all the snow she doesn't want. I want more. I'll take fluffy, dry, pretty snow over rain, ice or icefogs any day.
We still had some small patches of snow when this last, much larger snowfall started, so unless it warms up a whole lot I imagine it'll be on the ground for a while around these parts.
Snow just makes me feel trapped but it's really my own fear of driving in it that traps me.
And although it's only January, this has already been a long winter. We got our first snow in November when it normally hits in January. I'm ready for spring - I miss green.
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