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That total darkness at 4:30 is one of the things I love. It makes it so easy to go into "cozy" mode after work (or play). I light lots of candles around the living room to add to the atmosphere. Even better if it's pouring rain outside - I love listening to it. If you loved it in November, you'll adore living here! I can't wait for the blustery, brilliant days of autumn.
What that video doesn't show is the steepness of the streets there. Of course, that's no excuse but it's not like people in PDX CAN'T drive in snow. I've done it for a week and only saw one spinner.
Yeah, that's how it is. Great video! It's the kind of video that all the "First Alert Storm Teams" on TV play over and over again to scare the bejabbers out of everyone. Of course it's not like that all over the city, but it can be pretty dicey. Before I retired, my employer would still insist that we report to work, as did so many other employers. If all but absolutely necessary workers could stay home, the problems would be greatly minimized. Add to the mix schools closing and parents having to arrange child care so they could get to their jobs - well it's usually chaos for a couple days. Then after it's over, everyone talks about what happened to them during the storm.
I guess the lesson for folks planning to move here is that all the disruption and breathless newscasts about the weather is because it happens so rarely. Same with heat waves in the summer.
Part of the snow problem is they don't use salt and aren't equipped to deal with snow.
I grew up in Michigan, where it snows all the time...but the salt trucks are out on the roads constantly during that time. The salt continually absorbs the snow from turning to ice.
In Portland, they throw a gravel out there. They don't want the salt to rust their cars or have the possibility of it.
Anyways, when I lived in Portland, I was amazed that when the news forecasted snow, it was NORMAL for people to leave work immediately to get home...or not go to work. The city just isn't equipped for it. I even remember a Portland person asking me if Michigan gets shut down for 5 months because of all the snow. NO...snow is normal there, and the government knows how to handle it quickly and efficiently!
Great video though..reminds me of the first snow storm I saw in Portland...I saw the highway from Beaverton to PDX just completely littered with abandoned cars everywhere...and people just walking off the freeway leaving their cars there...complete madness. Never saw anything like it before.
What that video doesn't show is the steepness of the streets there. Of course, that's no excuse but it's not like people in PDX CAN'T drive in snow. I've done it for a week and only saw one spinner.
Funny video nonetheless...
I imagine there was a lot of ice under that snow - even without being used to driving in snow, I can't imagine that many cars sliding around that badly under normal snowy street conditions!
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