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Just drove home from the GF's house about an hour ago. My first step into the new snow discovered a very nasty crust on top. Light rain all the way home. Roads were surprisingly not too bad. I will admit to being a lot more comfortable since I was the only one on I 205 Nortbound. Temp gauge in the pick-em-up showed 23*, and the rain was freezing on my windshield. Makes me glad I live near the river in West Linn, instead of on the top of the hill.
Steve, if you make the drive to services Sunday morning, watch yourself. It's ugly!
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Had to chain up on the return trip through Ladd canyon I think that stretch thru Ladd Canyon is the nastiest stretch on I 84, at least as far as Baker City. ODOT actually has heating elements under the surface of the road for a stretch at one particularly off camber turn.
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DZ and All..
I've been following this thread and the weather reports pretty closely.. Down here in Medford the weather is balmy, by comparison.
My kids are all in the PDX area and supposed to come down for Christmas, but I think we're going to have to cancel.. Better safe at home, than on the road in these conditions.
They've learned quickly, how to use city transportation!!
Be safe and take care of those around you. Merry Christmas, all.
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13" of snow and I can damn near walk on top of it. Everything has about a 1/4 inch of ice. Sure hope trees don't start coming down.
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Yea, we still have power. But if that next storm comes in on top of this cold air, yikes! More photos: ![[Linked Image]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c288/zonedar/Arctic%20Blast%202008/ArcticBlast20083.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c288/zonedar/Arctic%20Blast%202008/ArcticBlast20085.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c288/zonedar/Arctic%20Blast%202008/Arcticblast20082.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c288/zonedar/Arctic%20Blast%202008/ArticBlast20084.jpg) Sorry for the lack of change of venue. Tweeked my back and it's hard to get around when you're shaped like a '?'.
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If you fellas out there aren't used to snow the rule of thumb about driving in it is this: with a 4wd, the going ain't hard, it's the stopping and turning. I just measured 18" of fresh from our storm and we have another blowing in tomorrow and another on Christmas Eve. I FINALLY CAN DO SOME SNOWSHOEING WITHOUT HAVING TO DRIVE 40 MILES!!! Be careful fellas. ET, we got out of Mass. yesterday....left with about a foot of new stuff on the ground and still snowing hard....I see it still snowing today with another 6 inches or so expected in Deerfield. Glad we got out while the gettin' was good.....should be wonderful snow shoeing for a while. I'm a little stove up from shoveling out mine and my old lady neighbor's driveways....that stuff is heavy. I guess that's why everybody else has snow blowers.  here's the view from our front door about 0900 yesterday...they've had about another 8 inches since then. ![[Linked Image]](http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p151/Steve_NO/Dec20Greenfieldsnowpics002.jpg) zapper....sounds like you guys are snug and set up. Keep safe.
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Happily, we went to Vigil Mass last night. And it was wonderful beyond words.
Perhaps sixty folks made it, out of a parish of 1500 families. All suffered in their own way to gather together.
Today, making the three miles would be impossible.
This morning, our twelve++ inches of snow is covered with about a half-inch of hard ice. The temperature is twenty-one degrees and the fine rain mist is falling to polish the existing ice.
Our cable television works fine, but I've not been able to get onto the Comcast internet service until right now. Obviously, we could lose connection at any time.
The news says that many homes in the Portland area are without power and with the growing ice problem, it is sure that the number of power outages will grow. At 21 degrees, that is a dangerous situation.
PDX is closed and many folks are stranded.
Our next full 24-hour day with the temperatures above freezing???? Next Saturday.
We've had one chained-up truck down our road today; the paper dude. Happily, he tossed the Sunday paper to within six feet of our garage door.
I opened the garage door and stomped three footprints through the ice and foot of snow and danged near fell on my keester with the second step.
The Sunday paper is about five-inches thick with advertisements from businesses that probably will not open today. Or, if they do open, nobody will come. That seems strange.
It is intensely quiet. Very nice, actually.
We're fine, warm and happy.
Today seems like a wonderful day to load some more .223 ammo and to mess with my .257 Weatherby brass. Yeah, gunny stuff ROCKS.
To all who live here: Please be careful out there. Merry Christmas and God Bless.
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Thanks Steve, we will try. I fell on my brain early this morning too.
I have fun except for seeing my kids that have to work go out in it. The youngest is 23 but they are still my kids. She is my daughter-in -law a few months pregnant and working night shift at OHSU.
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I got up early, scraped the ice off the rig, and did the white knuckle drive to Capital forest to hunt this morning. My first problem was a snow plow made a nice deep burm, blocking all the access roads into the hills. I ended up parking just off the highway and wading through 18" of snow with a 1/2" of ice on top
for a few hundred yards and decided to bag it. The drive home wasn't any better. More cars on I-5, more folks running off the road.
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Happily, we went to Vigil Mass last night. And it was wonderful beyond words.
Perhaps sixty folks made it, out of a parish of 1500 families. All suffered in their own way to gather together.
Today, making the three miles would be impossible.
This morning, our twelve++ inches of snow is covered with about a half-inch of hard ice. The temperature is twenty-one degrees and the fine rain mist is falling to polish the existing ice.
Our cable television works fine, but I've not been able to get onto the Comcast internet service until right now. Obviously, we could lose connection at any time.
The news says that many homes in the Portland area are without power and with the growing ice problem, it is sure that the number of power outages will grow. At 21 degrees, that is a dangerous situation.
PDX is closed and many folks are stranded.
Our next full 24-hour day with the temperatures above freezing???? Next Saturday.
We've had one chained-up truck down our road today; the paper dude. Happily, he tossed the Sunday paper to within six feet of our garage door.
I opened the garage door and stomped three footprints through the ice and foot of snow and danged near fell on my keester with the second step.
The Sunday paper is about five-inches thick with advertisements from businesses that probably will not open today. Or, if they do open, nobody will come. That seems strange.
It is intensely quiet. Very nice, actually.
We're fine, warm and happy.
Today seems like a wonderful day to load some more .223 ammo and to mess with my .257 Weatherby brass. Yeah, gunny stuff ROCKS.
To all who live here: Please be careful out there. Merry Christmas and God Bless.
Steve
Sounds rough, Steve. I have never experienced those ice storms you guys are famous for. Hope you have a good day, regardless. 
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Dogzapper, We are about 100 miles south of you between Corvallis and Eugene and back into the coastal range a bit. We've been getting snow off and on for about a week now and this picture was taken Friday. This is my wife's mare "Baby" surveying her pasture. She soon went back to her stall in the barn. All together we only got up to about 5 inches which isn't close to the 2 foot we got in the winter of 1968/69. Yesterday it warmed up to just under 40 and started raining and did it all night. Snow is almost all gone now. Happy Holidays to all, Doc ![[Linked Image]](http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p262/DocFoster49/HPIM9220.jpg)
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Doc,
Sounds like familiar country.
I used to live south of Monmouth, just west of Arlie(sp?) junction.
We never had snow like what you guys are getting now, that is for sure.
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The snow was about gone here last night when the rain started freezing. Sat here listening to tree branches cracking and falling in the back yard wondering when the power was gonna go out. It was about 2:30.  ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/JSRupp/IMG_4087p.jpg)
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I can just imagine what Monday is going to be like. Snow meats are not real popular in Portland, and chains don't always do the trick for the inexperienced. Never mind those paved ski slopes. I'm amazed at some coastal-area subdivisions.
Kind of glad the home folks are down in Arizona for Christmas, I usually come over Thanksgiving, this year it was freezing fog all the way from Spokane to Wenatchee after freezing rain-to-snow from Fisher River to Bonners. I can deal with crummy traction, but I HATE it when I can't SEE.
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Wow, Jeff, that reminds me of the two horrible ice storms we had back-to-back in the 1970s. Surely is hard on trees. Seemingly, our most accurate weather forecast comes from Channel 8. Their chief meteorogist, Matt Zophino, is now calling for another .25" to .50" of freezing rain, starting within the hour. And tonight is going to bring us another four to six inches of snow. We're a little higher than most of Portland, at 333 feet elevation, so we'll probably get the full six inches of snow. One of our church friends just called. We often go to dinner with the couple and they live quite near downtown Milwaukie. They've been without electric power since six o'clock last night. Bev said that the temperature in their home is nearing fifty degrees, it's dark, cold and she is bored out of her gord. Enough already!!! I told her that if they happened to be going out for a drive  that they could stop by for a hot shower, a hot meal and conversation by a blazing gas fireplace. In truth, the roads are so ice-covered and trecherous that the three miles between our homes is the distance from here to the moon. Looks like a White Christmas, folks. As long as we can get out for Christmas Vigil Mass and Christmas Mass, it's fine and dandy with us. Steve
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Friend Steve, you gave me a happy memory. When it snowed where I was raised it got really quiet. I would go out on the front porch and listen to the hum from the chemical plants and the sounds from the rail yard. It was the sound of home. When I went home on leave from the AF I would go out on the porch and listen and I got the feeling all over again. I do miss the sound of "home".
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Wow, Jeff, that reminds me of the two horrible ice storms we had back-to-back in the 1970s. Surely is hard on trees.
I remember those storms. Canyon road looked like The Arden after the Battle of the Bulge with all the tops of the trees blown out. I worked off of Broadway and Everett. For some reason I ended up walking through parts of the park blocks to get to work. Could see and hear limbs and branches crashing all over. 28 degrees and freezing rain here now.
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Well, the snow has started to pick up here in Hillsboro again. Started with freezing rain, then heavy snow, and now looks like freezing rain again.
We already have 10-12" of sow and ice on the ground.
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The freezing rain falling on the existing crust of ice over snow has a distinctive sound. It sound like sugar falling on paper.
We're getting it pretty heavily right now.
Soon, it will transition to snow which is supposed to last the night and into tomorrow morning. Channel 8 is calling for about seven inches in our location.
I-84 is absolutely closed between Troutdale and Hood River with the earliest reopening sometime tomorrow. I'm thinking that it will not reopen for a couple more days because the conditions out there are abysmal.
Bev and Ron got their power restored, so they are happy campers.
And, as always, we're snug, warm and doing great.
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Take care guys. The snow with ice on top is difficult to deal with and wreaks havoc with any line above ground and just wrecks trees. The snow with ice underneath which we get from time to time does the same and makes vehicles slide into each other.
Stay safe and the best of Christmas and a Happy New year out to the NW.
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