It’s one of Portland’s odd contradictions that we get rain almost constantly for nine months of the year, but don’t have stout enough infrastructure to handle much more than a stern drizzle. In any serious rains, our MAX trains flood when undercautious operators push through standing water, our hillside roads are prone to landslides, and our streetscapes sprout spontaneous sewage geysers—even after the $1.4 billion Big Pipe Project largely eliminated sewage overflows into the Willamette (you can pretty much count on said overflows today).
Here are scenes from around town this morning.
We have some minor infrastructure problems in Portland. (That right there is a sewer overflowing.) pic.twitter.com/8mH5rzsuyh
— Henry Kraemer (@HenryKraemer) December 7, 2015
Flooding causing lots of problems out there. Daniel Purvis posted this photo. What are you seeing where you are? pic.twitter.com/7laGs7nPSA
— FOX 12 Oregon KPTV (@fox12oregon) December 7, 2015
Heavy rains spilling over at our Brooks Building HQ. @ClackamasEM sandbag info here: https://t.co/K6mbaQ2bIn #pdxtst pic.twitter.com/kf0bFrnznK
— Clackamas Sheriff (@ClackCoSheriff) December 7, 2015
BREAKING: W. Burnside is covered in rock, 1 in. in diameter. https://t.co/d7rbMosaai #KOIN6News #pdxtraffic #pdx pic.twitter.com/t4oyzrKDYY
— Brent Weisberg (@BrentKOIN) December 7, 2015
How awesome is PDX? Awesome!
Raw sewage filling the road at SE Washington/SE Stark and SE 3rd in the CEID this morning.
How’s this wondrous infrastructure supposed to handle more density?
Stinky, they are referring to population density, not density of the rain.
Keep raw sewage outta the Willamette and in the streets of Portland where it belongs!!!!
Terwilliger headed up Marquam Hill from Beaverton was flooded just after turning off of Beaverton Hillsdale, lot’s of drowned out cars and i waived to them as i drove around them in my Ford Van 🙂
I heart cholera.
I didn’t know you had such a half-assed infrastructure over there. Uck.