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

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UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
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........
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Ain't that the truth...

Speaking of ice-outs... That B done been iced out of our lives forever.
 
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UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
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......
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They're pretty good about getting the main routes cleared/sanded. The local streets - not so much.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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.
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Clearing the air about the Columbia River freezing over, since the news agencies and my memory are both slightly off.

The year probably was 1979. I lived on the houseboat for a couple of years, and that year fits.

No one drove across the Columbia River during 1979 cold spell. There was a lot of talk about trying it, and how people did drive across during the 30s freeze up. But it never happened as far as I know. Sorry for the exaggeration

The Christmas tree on ice (decorated with woman’s underwear, good times), the fire and using an axe to make a hole in the ice is all true. But the ice was only about 3-4” thick, which would not be thick enough to drive across. The ice was probably thinner out near the middle of the Columbia River.
 
Personally, I drive just fine in snow. But no one is actually driving when they are sliding on ice into the car in front of them, into a ditch, or into a pedestrian.

This tired suggestion that ice covering the roads is the same as snow is silly. I don't give a shit where you live, when the road is a slick sheet of ice, you're fucked. I've experienced it first hand. And I've seen footage of cars and trucks skidding all over the place, accidents, and roads closed all over the country at one time or another. And that includes states like Nebraska, Minnesota, and up state New York where they expect and prepare for snow and ice every year.

Hopefully it doesn't get that bad. Last week I learned the new tires on my car do not handle this weather well.
 
I'm assuming they would of already announced it by now if the game was cancelled. So Detroit could fly out before the snow/ice. Typically the NBA only cancels games if the opposing team can't fly in. The Pistons flew in to PDX yesterday, so they are already here.
As a fan, this will be a good game to go to because they will probably allow fans in the upper sections of the arena to move down and fill seats in the 100 level.
 
oldfisherman said:
Clearing the air about the Columbia River freezing over, since the news agencies and my memory are both slightly off.

The year probably was 1979. I lived on the houseboat for a couple of years, and that year fits.

No one drove across the Columbia River during 1979 cold spell. There was a lot of talk about trying it, and how people did drive across during the 30s freeze up. But it never happened as far as I know. Sorry for the exaggeration

The Christmas tree on ice (decorated with woman’s underwear, good times), the fire and using an axe to make a hole in the ice is all true. But the ice was only about 3-4” thick, which would not be thick enough to drive across. The ice was probably thinner out near the middle of the Columbia River.
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I only vaguely remember the rivers freezing but I do remember I worked out on 201st and Sandy Blvd (the edge of Troutdale) back then and that was one cold ass winter. The next January wasn't any better. Remembering helps keep the current forecast in perspective....
 
BoBoBREWSKI said:
I'm assuming they would of already announced it by now if the game was cancelled. So Detroit could fly out before the snow/ice. Typically the NBA only cancels games if the opposing team can't fly in. The Pistons flew in to PDX yesterday, so they are already here.
As a fan, this will be a good game to go to because they will probably allow fans in the upper sections of the arena to move down and fill seats in the 100 level.
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It's not getting to the game, it's the race out of there afterwards. The race to 84 and 26 could turn very ugly very quickly. This is a situation where you think about what's best for the fans instead of worrying about if the Pistons can fly out of here.
 
I lived in upstate new york.

There are two major differences.
One. They don't deal with on the verge freezing weather. Meaning snow that melts then freezes then melts then freezes. When it snows there it is always well below freezing.
Two. They use salt.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I only vaguely remember the rivers freezing but I do remember I worked out on 201st and Sandy Blvd (the edge of Troutdale) back then and that was one cold ass winter. The next January wasn't any better. Remembering helps keep the current forecast in perspective....
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I also remember the next Jan being very cold. I had sold my houseboat and move to the house in Vancouver. The water pipes froze and the electricity was out for about a week.
 
A woman who my mother knows
Came in and took off all her clothes.

Said I, not being very old,
'By golly gosh, you must be cold!'

'No, no!' she cried. 'Indeed I'm not!
I'm feeling devilishly hot!'

"Hot And Cold"
Roald Dahl
 
SlyPokerDog said:
It's not getting to the game, it's the race out of there afterwards. The race to 84 and 26 could turn very ugly very quickly. This is a situation where you think about what's best for the fans instead of worrying about if the Pistons can fly out of here.
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It's the fans responsibility to decide if they can safely get to & from the game. Nobody is forcing them to go to the game. But I guess that's the way it is nowadays, it's always someone else's fault. "I got in an accident driving home from the Blazer game, shame on the Blazers organization for not canceling the game!". Ridiculous.
 
We had a pretty brutal cold snap during the winter of 95/96. I remember chunks of ice in the Willamette River, which I thought was pretty cool. Can only imagine what it'd be like for a layer of ice over the river.

Speaking of 95/96, this year's weather has been eerily similar. It was capped by a flood in February. Be prepared.
 
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BoBoBREWSKI said:
I'm assuming they would of already announced it by now if the game was cancelled. So Detroit could fly out before the snow/ice. Typically the NBA only cancels games if the opposing team can't fly in. The Pistons flew in to PDX yesterday, so they are already here.
As a fan, this will be a good game to go to because they will probably allow fans in the upper sections of the arena to move down and fill seats in the 100 level.
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I heard about this happening a long, long, long time ago. However, I went to a snow game about 7ish years ago where people were just laying free tickets on the benches out front because so many people couldn't make it. I went from my 300 levels to a mid-100 level seat in the 2nd quarter and it took about 2 minutes before they booted me. It was less than 50% full. I tried to tell the usher that the team needed my yelling since the arena was so empty...she didn't agree.

I have chains, kitty litter, 4 Wheel drive and will be at the game tonight regardless. However, I grew up in Vermont, spent 10 years living at 7700 feet in Colorado and know how to get around. The roads here are the worst I've ever seen. Driving in 10 inches of fresh loose snow is way easier that the ice that forms here. I finally figured out why with the last storm... since there are so many raised reflectors on the roads, most of the time the plows can't run their blades directly on the road. They keep them a couple inches off the ground to avoid tearing out the reflectors. On a lot of roads they never actually scrape the road clear.
 
Orion Bailey said:
I lived in upstate new york.

There are two major differences.
One. They don't deal with on the verge freezing weather. Meaning snow that melts then freezes then melts then freezes. When it snows there it is always well below freezing.
Two. They use salt.
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Where in upstate New York food you live? I used to live in Fort Drum which was right next to Watertown.
 
BonesJones said:
Where in upstate New York food you live? I used to live in Fort Drum which was right next to Watertown.
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Damn. never even heard of either, Though upstate is massive. I was barely upstate. I live in Port Jervis first. Tiny place in the Deleware River Valley where Pennsylvania Meets NY and NJ.
Then I later moved to Newburgh up the Hudson River a ways. Then I moved to White Plains for the last year I was there.
I used to love taking a driver every weekend in the summer and picking a new road and just heading NW and getting lost and finding my way back again. The small towns and scenery is simply endless.
I actually long to go back for a few weeks just to drive all over again. :)
 
Orion Bailey said:
Damn. never even heard of either, Though upstate is massive. I was barely upstate. I live in Port Jervis first. Tiny place in the Deleware River Valley where Pennsylvania Meets NY and NJ.
Then I later moved to Newburgh up the Hudson River a ways. Then I moved to White Plains for the last year I was there.
I used to love taking a driver every weekend in the summer and picking a new road and just heading NW and getting lost and finding my way back again. The small towns and scenery is simply endless.
I actually long to go back for a few weeks just to drive all over again. :)
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Were you one of the guys on Orange County Choppers? Vinnie?
 
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