by djinnandtonic on 12/26/21, 5:08 PM with 121 comments
by rootusrootus on 12/26/21, 5:53 PM
Also, snow in late December is relatively rare. We missed a white Christmas by one day. Only have an inch here where I'm at, but hey, take what you can get.
by jhatax on 12/26/21, 5:18 PM
Thanks for making me smile this morning.
by ZanyProgrammer on 12/26/21, 6:09 PM
by jmspring on 12/26/21, 7:40 PM
If you want some humorous questions / etc. regarding snow, at the moment, check out the CHP Truckee Instagram account. 70ish miles of Highway 80 from Colfax to the Nevada state line is closed at the moment, and may be until Tuesday. All the people that "relocated" during Covid are experiencing the first real winter up there.
Driving around, slow and steady is the rule. Knowing the capabilities of your vehicle (and your driving skill limits), being prepared in case you get stuck, etc. are important.
by thsbrown on 12/26/21, 5:41 PM
From the sounds of it Portland is to snow as L.A. is to rain. Any sign of the slightest of moisture in the air and Angelenos lose their shit and drive like dummies.
by bcherny on 12/26/21, 5:23 PM
It’s normally a 4.5 hour drive, but with snow chains and delays I could see it being closer to 10.
[1] https://www.tripcheck.com/DynamicReports/Report/RoadConditio...
by viburnum on 12/26/21, 5:35 PM
by filmgirlcw on 12/26/21, 7:21 PM
Seattle is worse at snow than Atlanta, something I didn’t think was possible. I avoided most of the 2019 snowpacalypse because I was in Australia (I smartly changed my flight and flew to LA early so I wasn’t stranded in the airport when the snow really hit like some of my colleagues…spending a day at Disneyland instead of worrying about making my connection to my 15-hour flight to Sydney was one of the smarter travel decisions I’ve ever made), but I was in Bellevue of all places before it really came down for a work-offsite, but it was icy and there were drifts, and it was shocking to me how poorly even the commercial areas dealt with ice and snow. I had to have my husband bring my snow boots from NYC to where I was staying 12 miles away (at The W) so that I wouldn’t break my neck walking across the street from the hotel to the venue of the off-site. I understand the lack of infrastructure, but it was again, worse than Atlanta. And Atlanta is a city that doesn’t have mountains/ski resorts nearby.
Last year, it snowed a bit and they were downright negligent about clearing out the snow and ice in front of my luxury apartment building/the busy sidewalk, making it nearly impossible to even leave (even by car, let alone if you were trying to walk). A lot of that was on the building owner, but the city was equally negligent with its lack of attempts to make streets accessible by foot or by car. A girl at UW died in 2019 because the school both didn’t put out proper signage for ice and didn’t do the rational thing and try to de-ice campus.
Like I said, I never thought I’d see a city handle snow worse than Atlanta. But the PNW (and Seattle especially) certainly does.
[1]: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/atlanta-snow...
by 19h on 12/27/21, 5:52 PM
Never knew Oregon was this beautiful, I’ll definitely explore it more soon. :-)
by agrocrag on 12/26/21, 5:31 PM
by neom on 12/26/21, 7:48 PM
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/26/shawn-vestal-r...
by authed on 12/26/21, 10:53 PM
They probably should choose a smaller area to make this useful (for somebody).
by geocrasher on 12/26/21, 5:22 PM
by hsnewman on 12/26/21, 5:12 PM
by mgarfias on 12/26/21, 8:12 PM
by WalterSobchak on 12/26/21, 7:27 PM
The site owner doesn't enforce HTTPS for some reason but supports it at the same time.