Portland winter storm

[thrihyrne]

Hokay. HUGE winter storm. Snow. Snowdrifts. Shoveling out the 3 1/2 foot snowdrift in front of Jill's car so someday she can get out, but not dealing with excavating the back of her car. In my pictures, I focused on the back, but the foreshortening doesn't show just how tall the wall of snow was in front of the cars- it was very intimidating to shovel. Doing said shoveling as frozen rain began to fall and the wind blew. Having it be pretty calm through today and then looking over at the window and seeing blizzard-like conditions. ::whimpers:: Offering up my car for Jill to get to work, eventually (ironically, my car is under trees and escaped the snowdrifts), only to realize that there's a rule in effect that no-one can be on the road without chains. Do I have chains? Hell, no! There's about 1/4 inch of solid ice on the streets. No Lessons & Carols service; services canceled all over Portland today. Some people's airline flights out at PDX have been canceled until Tuesday! Apparently we could get another 4-8 inches of snow on top of all of the packed snow and ice tonight.

But I'm in a safe, warm, cozy place with two good friends, plenty of food, three affectionate cats and a dog, and internet. Now I have no excuse not to write, and I have started— also making significant progress on the baby sweater sleeves. I'll be be really sore tomorrow after the shoveling. :)

So, without further ado, here are some pictures to capture this craziness. Since everyone keeps telling me, "Portland isn't usually like this!" ;)