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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on January 07, 2004, 04:28:30 PM
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I hear its been encased in ice or something... whattsup?
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Its a myth them Portlanders are spreading to keep the rest of us out. :)
dago
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Seattle/Tacoma area too...
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It's been below 25 for the last week or so. Around -10 with wind chill. It's just starting to warm up, but the clouds are still here... so the freezing rain is starting. Salem got hit alot worse (ask SOB). They had about a foot of snow before the temps really dropped. This is unusual weather for the area since we seldomely stay this cold for more than a few days.
MiniD
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Reports here are that the airport is full of people waiting for canceled flights. Bad mojo.
Did I mention that I'm wearing a t-shirt right now and the top is down on the jeep-wannabe.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Did I mention that I'm wearing a t-shirt right now and the top is down on the jeep-wannabe.
Did I mention that if we had weather like yours, Californians would be moving here in droves? I LIKE our weather. :cool:
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Beautiful day here in Hawaii. Goin to the beach right now actually. Eat your heart out.
(then again im sad to say i've never been in snow, which im dieing to see)
Eating my heart out:p
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Yea... freezing rain is a tough one to fly through. The airlines usually stay shut down. They're forecasting warmer temps for tomorrow and 40s-50s for Friday... though... they forcasted 40s for Wednesday last Monday... so we'll sit back and see how that works out.
As for the convertables... I have a friend with a convertable that insists you can drive with the top down more in Oregon than in Cali... you can always turn up the heat to warm up but you need the top up to make the AC work.
MiniD
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Yeah....the Northwest sucks right now. I have 5 drivers stuck out in different areas of Oregon right now due to ice and snow and Interstates being shut down.
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Originally posted by Mini D
As for the convertables... I have a friend with a convertable that insists you can drive with the top down more in Oregon than in Cali... you can always turn up the heat to warm up but you need the top up to make the AC work.
MiniD
Sad but true. When we hit the triple digits (all too often in the summer) the top goes up.
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My house, Everett, WA - 25 miles north of Seattle
2 inches of solid ice on the local street - didn't even bother going to work today - no chains for the car.
(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bbgunwb/ice/ice-house.jpg)
(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bbgunwb/ice/ice-rhodie.jpg)
(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bbgunwb/ice/ice-grass.jpg)
(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bbgunwb/ice/ice-deck.jpg)
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Back from the beach. We had summer-like weather today.
Its nice to be able to see girls with only 10% clothing, all year round.
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Originally posted by sling322
Yeah....the Northwest sucks right now. I have 5 drivers stuck out in different areas of Oregon right now due to ice and snow and Interstates being shut down.
Awesome pics BBGun!
100,000 lost power last night here in the Puget Sound region. Trees laiden with ice downed power lines, etc. I-90 Interestate, Snoqualmie pass was shut down for 10 hours, due to freezing rain, snow, and lastly, avalanche control crews out blasting snow. I saw about 10 Semi's parked on the side of the road home tonight, presumably sleeping while they waited for the pass to re-open.
Commuting this AM was interesting, watching what I initially thought was "lightning" was transformers blowing in the distance. 5 of em on the way into work today.
What mess.
We didn't lose power out in our neck.. Damn, wanted to have my porch lights on again during a power outage. :(
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this is why i am glad i only summer in portland.
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Looks like about the same ice coverage we got here earlier this week. Happens a couple times a year. The sucky part is chipping the crap off your car. But wait till you see the sun rise or set behind an ice coated tree.
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last time we had one of these damn ice-storms I dodged the bullet by 3 hours. (flew to HI for a couple weeks of work, they shut down the airport 3 hours after my plane left).
the one before that I was in San Fransisco.
this is the first one to catch me at home in years.
the snow is no problem but the damn ice really sucks.
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Looks like at least another day of fun. The mini does just fine in the snow, but I'm tired of getting tailgated by SUVs on the highway.... so I'm keeping it parked and calling in.
MiniD
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ya the snow is no problem. just keep your distance from everyone else (very few people in this valley know how to drive in the snow).
I had some fun tuesday, my oldest daughter is 16, she doesn't have her license yet (my kids have to earn the money for their first year of insurance before they can get a license) but will soon have the $$.
I took her out to the mall and gave her some skid-recovery lessons. getting the jeep up to 30-40 mph then have her stop as fast as possable with out loosing control.
also laying out a course through the lot and having her take it as fast as possible, intentionally pushing it until she loses control and then showing her how to get it back, without stopping.
all it took was about 45 minutes and she developed the reflexes to do it automaticly. I wish more people would teach there kids to drive in bad conditions. but then again I guess 90% of people here just teach them to hide from the weather, and I guess that works for me too, snow days are just low traffic days.
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I wish more parents would practice that where possible, Apathy. My Dad did the same with all 3 of us kids, on a frozen lake in Minnesota. Thats where we learned to defensively drive on icey conditions. There wouldn't be so many dummmasses on the road today if it was a required school for such a thing. You don't know how many times I saw folks sliding into ditches because of over-correction, not giving themselves enough stopping distance, etc. during the last week. :rolleyes:
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I have quite a bit of experience in ice and snow... not really an issue. But there's alot of people out there right now that have a shiney new 4x4 that think it should do just awesome on ice. You can teach someone to drive on ice, but it's impossible to avoid those that never learned.
MiniD
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ya it was almost funny up on Johnson creek Blvd, up above 92nd where they built all those big $$ homes up on the hill. odot closed the road, too steep and a solid sheet of ice.
and one after another you see thse handsomehunkes try to take that hill, I guess they don't know that the ice doesn't care how much you paid for that cadillac SUV.
next winter I think I'm going with the tires we put on my mothers car this year. they have walnut shells in the tread rubber, the handling on ice is much better than studs, and the handle like regular tires on good roads, making them perfect for the suprise patch of black-ice.
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That was 112th I believe, that ends down at Johnson Creek. It's the steep hill going down Mt. Scott. I've heard they have enough footage of tards from last Tuesday (before it was closed) to do an "America's stupidest drivers" for an entire season.
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DOH! wait... Johnson Creek Blvd... I forgot they just built those houses on it. On the backside. LOL! hadn't even tought about that one.
MiniD
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ya they hauled half of the mt away to extend JCB into a steep switch-back, not only is it great video footage in the winter, it looks like the next big rain (or maybe when the warm rain falls on this snow), we'll see a new round of people surfing their new houses down the mud slides.
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The snow was fun, I'll miss it. Managed to get around just fine without being nailed by any northworst drivers. We got most of our freezing rain on Tuesday and some more on Wednesday. I went to see The Last Samurai on Tuesday and by the time I got out my car was covered with a 1/4" layer of ice :D
I'm well insured and don't give a flying poop about my car, otherwise it wouldn't have left my parking space. Too many overly confident, inexperienced, or easily panicked drivers out there. Can't really blame them too much, particularly if Oregon or Cali are the only places they've lived. That doesn't stop me from ridiculing them though. :)
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Can we blame all this on Vera Katz?
I'm gonna. :)
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we can blame Vera for everything.
I ran into the father of all morons today. left the chiropracter this morning (they hadn't cleared his lot yet) and some idiot pulls in, so I have to wait until he passes before I can back out of the spot. he gets directly behind me and gets stuck.
I give him some time to work it out, no luck. then I look at his wheels, he's chained up on the rear, front wheels are getting no traction.
what kind of moron chains up the rear wheels on a front-wheel drive car?
somehow I think we can find a way to blame this on Vera too.
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im down in redmond oregon, got bout 2ft of snow in some places, down to bout 1ft now still quite bit of ice on the roads, snow and ice been here for fricken lil over 2 weeks, usually it snows alil bit and melts away, hasnt been this bad here since bout 92.
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All gone in Seattle - was about 50 degrees and sunny yesterday, but the rains came back last night - like that was a surprise. WHY did Bill Boeing have to start his airplane company HERE? (though the summers are awesome - if a little short)
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