Whoa. Portland got all jacked up yesterday. We were sucker punched by a super sneaky snow storm that no one predicted. Like everyone else here in Portland, the news weather hooligans are completely high. Only they must have a direct pipeline to the super hairy purple buds, because they are consistently so incredibly off the mark. Last weeks predicted snow storm turned out to be an amazing sunny day. Yesterday’s “possible dusting of flurries at higher elevations” turned into a shit storm of inclement weather and horrible decision making.
Portland and Beaverton Public Schools neglected to close their schools until it was too late, leaving many kids stranded at school. Later, one of the news channels interviewed some head honcho from Portland Public Schools and asked why he dropped the ball on closing the school sooner. The guy being interviewed got irate and said, ‘Oh I don’t know, maybe because we watched you’re shitty weather forecast last night, which didn’t make any mention of four inches of snow by eight o’clock in the morning.” Ok, maybe we didn’t curse. But he reallywanted to.
The picture above was taken close to home. Real close. End of my driveway close. You can actually just make out the end of my shoveled driveway in the bottom left hand corner (that’s Minnesota training right there!). The scene is typical for Portland drivers in this kind of weather; a menage a trois of bad decision making. The first car, is a silver Passat, parked on the side of the hill after an unsuccessful summit attempt of Mt. Alfred. He left his car there. And then over the course of the day his car acted like a magnet, collecting two more “friends” who were traveling down the mountain.
Needless to say things haven’t improved a whole lot by this morning. Portland’s three plows haven’t bothered with Mt. Alfred yet. I’m pleading with the misses not to go into labor just yet because I don’t think my snow shoes will carry the weight.
Bonus: Nice car crashing footage from yesterday. Volvo will no doubt want to use this for an ad some day.