Notice 'POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT' SNOW STORM FROM CANADA HEADED TOWARD PORTLAND THIS WEEKEND

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ripcityboy said:
I was going to post that one hit wonder from Canada, cod-raggae "rapper" Snow. But then I realized that retro clip had no kitchy value what-so-ever. But the upstairs neighbor is playing Chicago's Greatest Hits so if I have to suffer.... so do you!

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How is listening to Chicago suffering?
 
hoopsjock said:
How is listening to Chicago suffering?
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I didn't grow up with Terry Kath era Chicago. I grew up with Peter Cetera era Chicago. It wasn't until I got older and dug out my dad's old vinyl record collection that I realized how good they were. But when they were on the radio when I was growing up they were trying to be Mike + The Mechanics. I OD'd on that ballad shit a long time ago.
 
calvin natt said:
don't know why but its soooo annoying when people from outside of Portland thinks its hilarious to make fun of Portland snow. I go to Denver all the time. its flat as you can get. no hills. snow plows and sand and salt etc all night long. Same with Minnesota where I have friends. The roads are clear. There isn't a hill for hundreds of miles. Its different. I live on top of a hill or whatever that's about 800 feet up. When we have snow the turns to ice, driving down the road to town is mayhem until its cleared.
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TorturedBlazerFan said:
It's different is the way I'd describe it. There is some validity to it too. My boss from Colorado is used to ice/snow lives at about 1000 feet and makes it into work no matter what weather there is but he's used to driving in it. My wife who hasn't lived anywhere but Portland / Hillsboro it snows outside or it's icy and she just can't do it...
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I live in co for a few years. Colo springs. Pueblo. Ive also lived in upstate ny.
Both places typically get hammered in the winter.

The difference between here and there is the dry vs wet snow and the temps.
Over there its dry and sticky because it doesnt melt and refreeze because The temps drop well below 32.
Here we hover right at 32. It snows. Then melts, then freezes turning to ice. Then it snows again and melts and freezes again. Layers of ice is what we get more often than a nice dry snowfall. Back east people have no clue how much different it is when the snow melts partially and then refreezes at night.

Coming from here, i never needed chains or studs over there. The snow grabbed my tires very nicely compared to here.
Combine thatcwith thecwest hills and its no joke around here. Less snow but much more dangerous to drive in.

And then the millioms of people who transplanted here and dont know how to drive in this stuff thinking its the same as back east. Yes when you spin your tires here, you are just forming ice under your tires. Duh.....
 
Orion Bailey said:
I live in co for a few years. Colo springs. Pueblo. Ive also lived in upstate ny.
Both places typically get hammered in the winter.

The difference between here and there is the dry vs wet snow and the temps.
Over there its dry and sticky because it doesnt melt and refreeze because The temps drop well below 32.
Here we hover right at 32. It snows. Then melts, then freezes turning to ice. Then it snows again and melts and freezes again. Layers of ice is what we get more often than a nice dry snowfall. Back east people have no clue how much different it is when the snow melts partially and then refreezes at night.

Coming from here, i never needed chains or studs over there. The snow grabbed my tires very nicely compared to here.
Combine thatcwith thecwest hills and its no joke around here. Less snow but much more dangerous to drive in.

And then the millioms of people who transplanted here and dont know how to drive in this stuff thinking its the same as back east. Yes when you spin your tires here, you are just forming ice under your tires. Duh.....
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That is one thing that people who aren't from here (or lived somewhere where the land is flatter or the snow is different/less icy) don't get.

Yeah, people do seem to be idiots when it's snowy, but remember the famous scene from a few years ago where cars kept sliding into other cars over and over, and people were like "lol, Portland/Seattle in the snow. National emergency!" ?

What the video didn't show, iirc, that was a hill. Hills + snow + ice + snow is much harder to navigate than flat land and small changes in elevation.

On top of that, like you and someone else said, it's a different *kind* of snow. Remember a few years ago we had a "snow event" (wtf do we call them that anyways?) where it was a more crystal type snow? It didn't compact as much and therefore wasn't heavy/slippery. I believe someone said that is more common for the kinds of snow they get in the middle of the country BECAUSE of the Coast Range/Cascade/Rockies effect on the amount of moisture in the snow storms. When you are getting the first part of the storm (as Oregon/Washington tend to do), they're wetter and that makes a difference.
 
maybe 1/4th of an inch at my place and it's not really on the roads. I guess it all depends on location, but it's sounding like over on this side of town it's just going to be cloudy most of the day and this is all were gonna get, according to my phone it's supposed to rain some tonight and tomorrow. Gonna be really hard to make a snowman out of this.
 
Not much snow huh? Guess you guys will have to get together and share a snowball.
 
I have a huuuuuge layer of 1.5 inches of snow. Now it’ll be freezing for two days and it’s an ice rink.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
maybe 1/4th of an inch at my place and it's not really on the roads. I guess it all depends on location, but it's sounding like over on this side of town it's just going to be cloudy most of the day and this is all were gonna get, according to my phone it's supposed to rain some tonight and tomorrow. Gonna be really hard to make a snowman out of this.
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What area are you in? I have about 2-3" here in the Tabor area and some more suppose to be on its way.
 
CupWizier said:
ok, yeah I heard the west side didn't get much. My daughter lives downtown near Good Sam Hospital and she didn't really get any snow there.
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Yeah I hear about 15 minutes west of us there are places with 4-5 inches. We still have basically nothing and doesnt appear like anything is on the side streets either.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Yeah I hear about 15 minutes west of us there are places with 4-5 inches. We still have basically nothing and doesnt appear like anything is on the side streets either.
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Crazy how it hits in some areas and not in others. I remember several years ago and snow storm came rolling through and dumped snow on the westside and nothing on the east.
 
CupWizier said:
Crazy how it hits in some areas and not in others. I remember several years ago and snow storm came rolling through and dumped snow on the westside and nothing on the east.
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When I went to bed last night it said it was going to snow all night and everytime I was up with one of the kids it was either raining or dry. Its very weird, from the report I read this morning theres a better chance for a lot of snow next week then there was today.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
When I went to bed last night it said it was going to snow all night and everytime I was up with one of the kids it was either raining or dry. Its very weird, from the report I read this morning theres a better chance for a lot of snow next week then there was today.
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I woke up to 3 inches and it started at 8:30 last night. Im in Happy Valley.
 
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