…schools are closed, wife will be telecommuting tomorrow, and the cat is visibly congratulating itself for moving in several years ago. All of which means: I get to sleep in tomorrow! …Heck, the kids might even let me get an extra half hour!
I will admit: snow is pretty when you don’t have to go out into it. Although whether I feel the same way after I shovel the walk tomorrow is another story. Fortunately, the tendonitis seems well and truly on the wane.
Good night, folks.
Just the usual March drizzle here in Portland – thank goodness. Early winter was altogether too cold and snowy.
Rain .. and hillsides.
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http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/mar/14/amtrak-service-suspended-between-vancouver-kelso/
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I really don’t get why Portland’s snow emergency response is .. so anemic. I mean, yeah, it only happens once or twice a decade, but still ..
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Mew
I don’t get it, either…the city manages to attend to the major thoroughfares, after a fashion, but side streets (especially mine, which is a dead end) can go hang. And if we get much more than the 5 – 6 inches we got last January, the street would be impassable. We’d have to get the neighbors out to shovel…and I think I’m the only one on my block who owns an actual snow shovel.
I happened to be in your fair city – driving on 82nd – down one of the bigger hills, a couple days after the ‘blizzard’.
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I’m not sure if it was northeast or southeast, I still don’t have a handle on your “quadrant and a spare” system.
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I watched an SUV – with a full load of kids – pass me going downhill, then do a very smooth 180.
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No other traffic, it didn’t roll, just .. wound up in the middle of the road, facing the wrong way.
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I waved at the stunned driver as we rolled by.
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Mew
If you were north of Burnside, you were in Northeast.
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But, yeah, the thing that worries me about driving in snowy Portland is other drivers.
Only a few flakes here in Lexington. I am hoping it does not get much worse- or it just shuts everything down. No half measures.
Was going to take a vacation day tomorrow. I may not need to.
We’re looking at 24 inches by the time it’s done.
Dang.