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Kevy Baby · 01-15-2005, 10:29 PM

Me predicts a baby boom in Portland in 9 months

wendybeth · 01-15-2005, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Me predicts a baby boom in Portland in 9 months

Why? Uncle Topsy wasn't that hot!

tracilicious · 01-15-2005, 10:40 PM

Being snowed in sounds so fun! Of course, I'm in Arizona, so anything involving snow sounds fun. Enjoy it!

Claire · 01-15-2005, 10:49 PM

Jeff--that SUCKS!!! I know our buses (54 and 56) were NOT running as scheduled.....it's very very quiet here....I've heard nada on Capitol Highway all day and I walked to the end of our driveway to look and it was empty.

And you guys (eastside) got it worse than us, so I can just imagine.

I was hating it just going to the end of the driveway. I would NOT be standing out in that stuff for two hours. I admire your gumption. Next time....stay home! I did see on the news that almost 40 buses broke down/wrecked/etc., so perhaps yours was one of them.

Mmmmm, Uncle Topsy is here. I must go procreate.

sleepyjeff · 01-15-2005, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tracilicious

Being snowed in sounds so fun! Of course, I'm in Arizona, so anything involving snow sounds fun. Enjoy it!

I love snow too......but we didn't get any

We had a temp inversion complicated by heavy winds funneled into our area by the Columbia River Gorge. The net effect is warm air aloft melting the snow long before it touches the ground but then it re-freezes just above surface level iciing up our whole world with no chance to make a snow man

...........it is 10 times more treacherous then any snow storm I have ever expeirenced(including a doozy we had last year at this time). Fortunatley, it is somewhat rare and they usually don't last too long.

What is really a bummer for the kids is that it is too dangerous to let them play in it(unless they have ice skates) and it happened on a Saturday so they had no school closed fun.

Claire · 01-15-2005, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

We had a temp inversion complicated by heavy winds funneled into our area by the Columbia River Gorge. The net effect is warm air aloft melting the snow long before it touches the ground but then it re-freezes just above surface level iciing up our whole world

In lay person's terms: Ice Ice Baby...too cold.

sleepyjeff · 01-15-2005, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Claire

Jeff--that SUCKS!!! I know our buses (54 and 56) were NOT running as scheduled.....it's very very quiet here....I've heard nada on Capitol Highway all day and I walked to the end of our driveway to look and it was empty.

And you guys (eastside) got it worse than us, so I can just imagine.

I was hating it just going to the end of the driveway. I would NOT be standing out in that stuff for two hours. I admire your gumption. Next time....stay home! I did see on the news that almost 40 buses broke down/wrecked/etc., so perhaps yours was one of them.

Yeah, it is earie how queit it can get. We usually can hear the Airport noise and the general traffic sounds from I-84.....now it's just soooo quiet.....I just know the quiet is going to keep me awake

I kept standing out in it because I kept thinking "the moment I walk/crawl away will be the moment it finally comes". This thinking chained me to my spot as the human ice cube of Halsey St.

for those two very long hours.

I am going to try not going to work the next time this happens.....but sometimes the guilt just eats me alive.

Gosh, remember when we were kids and inclement weather was something to be rejoiced?

tracilicious · 01-15-2005, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Gosh, remember when we were kids and inclement weather was something to be rejoiced?

I'm obviously still there!

Jazzman · 01-15-2005, 11:19 PM

I made it to work this morning around 9:30 at VanMall and was shocked to find it busy! I asked a few of my customers and they actually said that they had figured that the mall would be slow because of the ice, so they'd check it out. Hello!!! ODOT, WSDOT, Washington State patrol; everyone were issuing official warnings to stay off the roads unless it was absolutely necessary, and these idiots went freaking shopping! They disgusted me even more than our mall General Manager, who decided to keep the mall open normal hours because he made it in okay. I finally decided, screw it, and told my closers to stay home and shut my store early (as did nearly everyone else.) I just don't think it's worth it to jeopardize my employees’ safety just to keep the store open. As it was, when I left at 5:30 my car was covered in ice sickles and the temp was shooting downward. Everyone who went to the mall today is absolutely retarded.

F-in ridiculous. All of them.

I really feel for the people who's managers wouldn't let them close early. They had to brave both the frozen roads at 10:00 pm, and all of the idiot drivers out on them.

sleepyjeff · 01-15-2005, 11:23 PM

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I'm obviously still there!

I have to go to Disneyland to be a kid again.........

You know though, the Ice does look much better know that I am home and have no worries of work for the rest of the weekend. I shouldn't try to play the martyr and go out in this stuff but instead just stay home and enjoy it next time.....next time I will(hold me to it, lest I change my mind)

My Christmas lights are still on the house, maybe I will turn them on just for the fun of it...

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Claire Shagilicious Disneyland!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fulfilling my destiny..... Posts: 740	Jeff--that SUCKS!!! I know our buses (54 and 56) were NOT running as scheduled.....it's very very quiet here....I've heard nada on Capitol Highway all day and I walked to the end of our driveway to look and it was empty. And you guys (eastside) got it worse than us, so I can just imagine. I was hating it just going to the end of the driveway. I would NOT be standing out in that stuff for two hours. I admire your gumption. Next time....stay home! I did see on the news that almost 40 buses broke down/wrecked/etc., so perhaps yours was one of them. Mmmmm, Uncle Topsy is here. I must go procreate. __________________ Miles: It tastes like the back of a fing L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bull**. Fin' Raid. Jack: Tastes pretty good to me.
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Jazzman Sax God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Portland's Tijuana Posts: 510	I made it to work this morning around 9:30 at VanMall and was shocked to find it busy! I asked a few of my customers and they actually said that they had figured that the mall would be slow because of the ice, so they'd check it out. Hello!!! ODOT, WSDOT, Washington State patrol; everyone were issuing official warnings to stay off the roads unless it was absolutely necessary, and these idiots went freaking shopping! They disgusted me even more than our mall General Manager, who decided to keep the mall open normal hours because he made it in okay. I finally decided, screw it, and told my closers to stay home and shut my store early (as did nearly everyone else.) I just don't think it's worth it to jeopardize my employees’ safety just to keep the store open. As it was, when I left at 5:30 my car was covered in ice sickles and the temp was shooting downward. Everyone who went to the mall today is absolutely retarded. F-in ridiculous. All of them. I really feel for the people who's managers wouldn't let them close early. They had to brave both the frozen roads at 10:00 pm, and all of the idiot drivers out on them.
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