Is this what I think it is? (Portland, Eugene: home, school districts)

[nancy thereader]

Portland Snow, Lauelhurst Park (Photo, PortlandBridges.com)

I thought Portland didn't really have snow! You mean I need to keep my LL Beans?
I was planning on throwing them out before I moved.

[oldtintype]

The reason you find pictures like that on people's sites is because it's unusual and happens maybe once per year, and is gone within three days tops. It's a major news event here when it snows and the news channels do nothing but "snow coverage."

[PNW-type-gal]

As it says in the text "one of our infrequent snow storms" - it was a minor traffic annoyance for 2 days and then was gone. The irritating part was the school closures - the weather was uncertain, and forecasters didn't call it. Schools started sending school buses out right around 6:00 am, just as it started to snow. Whoever it is that the major school districts contacted said it wasn't going to stick and it would stop soon, and it didn't. I think some of the high schools which started earlier got half - or more - of the students in before it became obvious they had to be sent home again.

There were some mightily annoyed parents. Of course, a few eeks before (or maybe a month), schools did the opposite, and closed even though the weather was not bad, and parents were mightily annoyed, too.

[oldtintype]

Yeah, that ought to tell you about our snow storms--if there's any snow or ice the schools shut down. We're talking about an inch of snow here, not feet!!!!

[Ethirtysex]

This last storm was a bit longer than 3 days. There was snow on the hills for at least 2 weeks. It turned into ice on all the roads here in eugene and that was really messy. Despite the ice, classes still went on. Maybe portland school should take the same approach U of O takes. No snow days in 30 years!

[oldtintype]

Eugene is quite far from Portland though!

[nancy thereader]

Well. that sounds good to me. The less snow the better for me. I lived in Southern Brazil 30 years ago & one unusual chilly evening it snowed (less than an inch) and you can imagine how rare newsworthy that was. It was on the cover of every single magazine for weeks.