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This is the place to talk about the weather.
Topics include:
• Why does Portland cancel school for, like, a quarter inch of snow but not super heavy rain?
• Portlanders don’t know how to handle the snow, dognabit!
• Snow is pretty!
Send good snow photos (snowtos) to news@portlandmercury.com and we’ll post ’em.
Snowtos:
Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books. More by Sarah Shay Mirk
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Technically it’s only a half snow day for me: damn you delayed start!
Also, beat LA? That Blazer game last night was an epic letdown
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.
Lost m fignersss, fro0stbiite; waylaid cuz of snwow plz znd helps………
@ TSW – I’d help, but I’m trapped in an igloo.
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.
This is how the world ends, not with a whimper, not with a bang, but with a very light dusting of snow.
This storm is getting a write-up for a Snow Call, Snow Show.
At least I got to work from home.
I saw snow today, but was told it doesn’t count if you are around strippers.
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, dogs in snow > *.
SNOW DAY! Open Veins!