Let's see. Every freeway and major road in Portland has been running completely smoothly, actually faster and less congested than normal. So all the people who bitch about Portlanders not coping with a little snow can suck it; we cope with it just fine.
Bitching about the chicken little local TV news stations, on the other hand, is completely justified.
We get snow days so rarely, I want everyone to jump on them and for nobody to go to work. Alas, time to brush my teeth and be gone for eight hours. Curse you snowpocolypse.
@Stu: I don't know if shutting down schools when roads are clear counts as "coping just fine."
I was hoping my office would be closed today (so I'd get paid for not working), but it's not. I actually got to work early: bus was less crowded than usual and my 14-to-6 transfer timed out perfectly. Surprising given all the hype. And I should add that my coworker from Aloha (where there was more snow this morning) also made it in on time via bus and MAX.
So, all in all, more of a snow dud.
I was waiting for a (chained-up, 25mph-driving) bus when a teenager at the stop made a snowball, threw it at a car and grinned. She turned to me and said "there's something really satisfying about that".
Also, beat LA? That Blazer game last night was an epic letdown
Bitching about the chicken little local TV news stations, on the other hand, is completely justified.
I was hoping my office would be closed today (so I'd get paid for not working), but it's not. I actually got to work early: bus was less crowded than usual and my 14-to-6 transfer timed out perfectly. Surprising given all the hype. And I should add that my coworker from Aloha (where there was more snow this morning) also made it in on time via bus and MAX.
So, all in all, more of a snow dud.
Also, dogs in snow > *.