Housebound

[Claire]

Portland was hit overnight by an ice storm....frozen rain and snow. We're not quite out of it yet....will stay frozen tonight before warming up tomorrow. About 200 flights were canceled, and I just read that there were 141 reported car accidents today.

We're stuck in our house....kept a fire going in the fireplace, watched movies, football, college basketball, caught up on email, played games and tried not to eat our young.

Our street is steep and icy in both directions. There's no good route to a main road....and the main road has been quiet today. Even if we did get out....there'd be no getting back home.....the street is too steep to walk up on the ice, so we couldn't even park a car at the bottom.

Of course, I've never wanted Starbucks so badly in my life. And I was supposed to go see Hotel Rwanda with a friend tonight. AND we were supposed to be going to Mt. Hood tomorrow. Ugh.

Here are some pics:

http://www.katu.com/stories/74178.html

Sending out warm vibes to sleepyjeff/spree and wendybeth and maybe even CP and GD....the news keeps mentioning Eastern Washington's freezing temps, but haven't mention Seattle.