Odds of Ice-out Tonight? (100%! Game has been rescheduled.)

[e_blazer]

So, the chance of snow/freezing rain is about 100% today. What are the odds the game gets cancelled tonight? May as well make a game out of it. Post your prediction in photo format as to whether there will/won't, yes/no, etc. be a game format. Winner gets to have Sly come shovel their sidewalk.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm guessing they're going to reschedule the game. MAX can not run with ice on the lines. You know there will be multiple dipshits crashing as they come out of the tunnel on Hwy 26. Getting to the game should be okay but getting home could be deadly.

 

[TBpup]

All the northern, east coast cities are laughing at this.

 

[e_blazer]

I bet you're one of those dogs that craps on the sidewalk when it snows because you don't want to get your paws cold.

 

[e_blazer]

All the northern, east coast cities are laughing at this.

You mean those cities where they actually have the manpower and equipment to deal with a frozen mess like this?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

All the northern, east coast cities are laughing at this.

Why?

I remember back to back ice storms when I was a kid. First we didn't have power for 5 days, second for 4 days. Freezing rain is no joke.

 

[TBpup]

You mean those cities where they actually have the manpower and equipment to deal with a frozen mess like this?

I have family back east that live in a smaller town with no equipment or manpower. They have to wait till those resources show up from somewhere else and are always among the last to have roads cleared, power restored etc.

They just deal with it.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You mean those cities where they actually have the manpower and equipment to deal with a frozen mess like this?

YES! We should hire people and buy equipment that we only need to use every 6-7 years.

 

[e_blazer]

YES! We should hire people and buy equipment that we only need to use every 6-7 years.

Hey, don't bother preaching to the choir. It wouldn't make sense spending the money on these things given the infrequency of the storms. Just pointing out the obvious, that we're not used to, and ill-equipped to deal with these things. I'm just staying home and hoping the power stays on.

 

[e_blazer]

I have family back east that live in a smaller town with no equipment or manpower. They have to wait till those resources show up from somewhere else and are always among the last to have roads cleared, power restored etc.

They just deal with it.

Yeah, but they know they're going to have to deal with it on a regular basis and gear up for it.

 

[riverman]

My wife is leaving the car at work and hiking about 8 miles home this morning after her shift...can't get up or down the hills where we live so I get the night off...have to see about tomorrow...roads are brutal right now

 

[oldfisherman]

A day or two of cold weather, and everyone is in panic mode, wimps.

Portland got so cold, and for so long in the late 1970s, that the Columbia River froze solid. You could drive your car across the river.

Don’t remember the exact year the river froze, but they where still building the Glenn Jackson bridge at the time.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

My wife is leaving the car at work and hiking about 8 miles home this morning after her shift...can't get up or down the hills where we live so I get the night off...have to see about tomorrow...roads are brutal right now

You're making your wife walk 8 miles in the snow?

Hire her a uber, lyft or cab. They'll have chains. Pay a neighbor to pick her up.

If we get the freezing rain that they say we are things could get very dangerous. Even a small branch with an inch of ice around it can crack a skull open.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

A day or two of cold weather, and everyone is in panic mode, wimps.

Portland got so cold, and for so long in the late 1970s, that the Columbia River froze solid. You could drive your car across the river.

Don’t remember the exact year the river froze, but they where still building the Glenn Jackson bridge at the time.

I don't believe that is true. The last time the Columbia froze was before they built all the dams. The Sandy river has frozen.

 

[riverman]

everyone is in panic mode, wimps

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I don't believe that is true. The last time the Columbia froze was before they built all the damns. The Sandy river has frozen.

http://katu.com/archive/did-you-know-that-in-1930-the-columbia-river-actually-froze-over-11-25-2015

 

[riverman]

You're making your wife walk 8 miles in the snow?

Hire her a uber, lyft or cab. They'll have chains. Pay a neighbor to pick her up.

If we get the freezing rain that they say we are things could get very dangerous. Even a small branch with an inch of ice around it can crack a skull open.

She wanted to hike it....not my choice. I offered to call her a cab...neighbors are stuck around here...we live above the snow line

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

She wanted to hike it....not my choice. I offered to call her a cab...neighbors are stuck around here...we live above the snow line

I see who wears the pants in the family.

 

[e_blazer]

http://katu.com/archive/did-you-know-that-in-1930-the-columbia-river-actually-froze-over-11-25-2015

Maybe the Willamette freezing up is what he mis-remembered as the Columbia:

"The Willamette River can more easily freeze up, which it did back in 1979 and in the 1920s."

 

[riverman]

I see who wears the pants in the family.

no you don't..... I covered up my computer camera....!

 

[oldfisherman]

I don't believe that is true. The last time the Columbia froze was before they built all the dams. The Sandy river has frozen.

It froze.
I was living on a houseboat at the time on the Columbia River. We had our Christmas tree out on the ice.

I also had a fire on my houseboat that winter, (due to overloading the Swedish fireplace). We had to use an axe to make a hole in the ice so the fire dept could get water to their portable water pumps.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Hey, don't bother preaching to the choir. It wouldn't make sense spending the money on these things given the infrequency of the storms. Just pointing out the obvious, that we're not used to, and ill-equipped to deal with these things. I'm just staying home and hoping the power stays on.

Outta curiousity.....I see you're in Oregon City. My wife grew up there (8th & Pierce). Is the city still aggressively proactive for events like this? Back in the day those folks were outstanding at it. When I was first married we had a house basically next door to the mother in law. I had to be to work in Milwaukee by 6 am. It didn't matter how bad conditions got, the City of Oregon City had those streets and hills plowed and sanded very single ice/snow event by 6 am. It was awesome. Just wondering if they still have their shit together on that......

 

[SlyPokerDog]

When I was first married we had a house basically next door to the mother in law.

Damn, that would suck.

 

[riverman]

basically next door to the mother in law

Just say it was her basement...which is sort of next door

 

[Dougnsalem]

Just say it was her basement...which is sort of next door

HEY! There you go again with the basement jokes.....

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Outta curiousity.....I see you're in Oregon City. My wife grew up there (8th & Pierce). Is the city still aggressively proactive for events like this? Back in the day those folks were outstanding at it. When I was first married we had a house basically next door to the mother in law. I had to be to work in Milwaukee by 6 am. It didn't matter how bad conditions got, the City of Oregon City had those streets and hills plowed and sanded very single ice/snow event by 6 am. It was awesome. Just wondering if they still have their shit together on that......

When we lived there, they proactively had road block signs closing Singer Hill. They wouldn't touch our neighborhood. But it looked like they'd done a bit of work cleaning up down the hill.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Damn, that would suck.

Actually, it was wonderful. She was a widow who had no sons and wasn't particularly enamored with my brother in law. That woman treated me extremely well. She's the one who sold us our house. It wasn't my wife's cooking that lead to me putting on weight, it was the MIL's cooking....and taking us out for meals 3-4 times a week because we had very little money. I was blessed with the best mother in law in the world and when she passed a year and a half into our marriage I was truly devasted. There hasn't been a single day in the past 39 years since that I haven't missed her dearly.....both my son's literally got the mothers in law from hell (and then some). Poor bastards........