Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Only a dusting in east Vancouver so far.

But yeah, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Now that gas is reasonable less of a screwing, I can afford to drive the Land Cruiser!

Right on DT...Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Iv'e got 1,000 pounds of gravel in the back of the ol' 4X4 pickup and cam lock chain chains! So get the hell out of my way.....COMING THROUGH OR OVER....YOUR CHOICE!

We got it solid again here in Forest Grove. Probably 4 inches or so. All of it is currently melting until we fall below freezing today.

Gonna be ugly roads tomorrow.

Here in Hillsboro, we had snow on and off through the afternoon. Most people left work early for fear of the roads becoming dangerous. I put chains on the Excel and did just fine when I drove home around 5:30.

I have a little tire chain story to share: A few years ago, I bought some second-hand but never used tire chains from a co-worker. I tried to use them this week and found out that they were made for slightly larger tires than what are on my car. One set would not stay on, and the other fit loosely. I ended up having to go the Les Schwab in Forest Grove to find chains that fit my car.

Up to the North around Woodland it snowed from 6am till 8pm. About 6 inches or so and tons of cars in the ditches on the side roads. Cars stuck at the bottom of hilly streets, etc. Got home and plowed the driveway with the tractor. If it's bad again tomorrow I may push all of that snow together and make a giant snow fort.

My neighbor made a huge snowman in his front yard!

It looked great until he came out and started pouring Catsup all over the snowman.

Only my neighbor would come up with the idea to build a "bloody" snowman.


And when I say the word "Bloody" I'm not trying to talk like a crazy british person, there really was fake blood on the snowman made out of catsup!

Its been snowing here in las vegas today. Yes it sometimes snows in hell. but i love it here.

Four. Feet. Of. Snow.

In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

I had to spend the night in my restaurant ... no way I was getting out. And I am a rather experienced snow driver, doesn't faze me in the least.

I have never seen anything like this in my life. And it's STILL coming down hard!

SWEET!

We've got maybe 4 inches.

Hey, at least you are stuck where you've got good eats! Turn on the tube, surf, and just enjoy!

Four Feet !! Gods...I lived in Spokane for a year in the 70s. I know it can really pile up the snow in that region, but 4 feet in C.A???

We got another 4 inches last night here in the Tri Cities...school delayed 2 hours...no big deal ...here...16 degrees this AM,,warmed up a little..feels like spring now...LOL...

Aw Brian, just put the ol' chains on that Veewee Bus and a plow on the front and go for it!

It's snowing in Las Vegas today!

FINALLY! We are getting some snow in east Vancouver!

Looks like about 2" or so in the back yard.

My weather stations says it's 34.3 degrees but it's always a few degrees warm because of where I have the sensor mounted.

> My neighbor made a huge snowman in his front yard!

Somebody in my neighborhood built a snowman that looks to be about 15 feet tall!! I saw this monstrosity while driving to work this morning. I must take some photos before it melts.

Darn. Now the snow has stopped.

Almost five feet and still going strong here.

Kennewick, GEG set a new record for 24 hour snowfall ending at 4am for yesterday, some 17 1/2 inches. it didn't start til about 9am yesterday.

Dark - the Bus is at home in Spokane. I have the Saturn out here, at this point in time it's stick in the parking lot.

Can you even see it?

And talk about eating up all of the profit's!

It looks as if I will have to take of my tire chains this afternoon. Goodbye, snow!

I am sitting in a hotel room in Honolulu right now (I'm on a business trip until Saturday, stuck in meetings for a good part of the day), it's about 80 degrees, mostly sunny and feels like it's at least 90% humidity. Not one snowflake in sight. It's sprinkled a little bit earlier this morning (it's about 12:30 right now) but it seems to have stopped.

(Although from what I understand it's supposed to start really pouring rain tonight.)

Snow..........

Good God, this is possibly the very first time I've ever been to Hawai'i and truly wished I was at home...............

Snow is never frightful... annoying from time to time but that's about it. Central Oregon is getting buried too. 2 feet by tomorrow morning.

As for Hawaii. Meh. I've been to tropical locations and I get island fever in that state. Let's see I can drive around the island... and uhm do all the other usual tropical activities. But I can't get in the car and drive drive drive... without going in circles. Gimme Belize or Mexico or Brazil at least those aren't islands.

Dark - I'll email you some pics. I took one of the Bus this morning under almost four feet of snow.

Vegas got some snow too! And When I say "snow," I'm not talking about blow!

"As for Hawaii. Meh. I've been to tropical locations and I get island fever in that state. Let's see I can drive around the island... and uhm do all the other usual tropical activities."

Yeah. The company is giving us today as a "free day" because we finished all our official stuff yesterday. We are supposed to head home tomorrow, but I'll likely go to the airport in a bit, book an early flight on Hawaiian and have Dennis come pick me up at PDX tonight. So I'll be using my "free day" to free myself from these trappings.

(Oh yeah, my relatives from a town nearby here--I've mentioned them before in years past--came to pick me up and take me to the hotel on Wednesday. *That* made it all the more disheartening.....)

I've had more than enough of this. Don't get me wrong, I think Hawai'i is an absolutely beautiful state, even more so in the late spring or early summer, right before the tourist season. But sitting in the hotel restaurant listening to The Platters' version of "Jingle Bell Rock" on the Muzak whilst it's raining and 75 degrees, snowing and 20-something at home the week before Christmas, makes me wish I wasn't here! It's hard to make "persuns of snow" out of wet, semi-packed-down beach sand.

(See, if this was my own va-kay my opinions might [would] be different. But this isn't, so they aren't.)

So if I don't post here until really late tonight I'll probably have my head up in the clouds in the meantime, if *I'm* not up in the clouds by then.......

So, depending on which station you watch they are predicting anywhere from 4" to 12" Saturday and Sunday and then Sunday evening a nice layer of freezing rain to top it off, sort of like "Icing on the cake". Whadda ya tink? It does look ugly on satellite with the remnants of the hurricane coming at us and with the cold temperatures, I think we me actually be in for a Wild Ride!

Danger Will Robinson, large orange blob approaching ...

http://weather.yahoo.com/img/aksat_440x297.jpg.html

Yep, that's the leftover moisture from a hurricane headed our way.

Hey, way the from the "All New Blobler Radar System?"

...are predicting anywhere from 4" to 12" Saturday and Sunday and then Sunday evening...

Yeah. Bring it on!!!

...a nice layer of freezing rain to top it off, sort of like "Icing on the cake".

Not a big fan of ice though! There is no safe way to drive on it!

Just mount up a set of these:

http://www.rallynotes.com/main_icetires.jpg

Does this look familiar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ratn_Wl8XU

As I was involved in a fender-bender last night, I won't be doing any driving this weekend. What a crappy way to begin the holidays!

Over here in South Central Wa we had sunshine today, got up to 24, so here come all the drivers out to go and christmas shop...driving on the rutted snow...on their cell phones...sliding all over the road and going too fast.

At least we didnt have sheet ice...looks like that is what happened in Portland. ice then snow, then ice...baaad...especially on the hills.

Been there , done that back in the day when I lived out SW !

Count me as one who is tired of the snow already. I grew up in it in PA - and that's one reason I never moved back!

I flew back to PA on Thursday for the holidays. Of course it was snowing in Portland as I dragged my bags to the bus/MAX stop, but the plane took off on time. Layover in Phoenix, where it was SUNNY! Damn I wanted to stay - didn't care how warm it was!

Now back in PA we're having even more snow and cold weather. I'm just sick to death of it already and it's only December! Actually I miss the rain too!!! But I'm also scoping out airfares for Hawaii in January!

Andrew

Well, I'm looking at the schnee right now and after having spent three days in the rain, heat and so much humidity that my naturally-curly hair almost went straight, I must say it's the most beautiful thing I have seen this year.

To-morrow morning I'm going to my folks' place and dig out my old Flexible Flyer.....need to do me some sledding in the park nearby my place........

L8r daze!

5 to 10 inches over here by Sunday night, so the prognosticators say anyhow.

Same here, and it's started already! Well, i'm off to chain up the ol' beasty so I can get to town.

This now conludes my broadcast day!

L8R

5PM report:

8" snow and 22 degrees, windy on Parrett Mt.

F'ing Bismark here.

19:44 East Vancouver;

25.7 Deg F.

29.86 in Hg and falling

88% Rel. Humidity.

Wind 0 mph.

Still snowing. Have about 5-6" on the ground.

Just came back from Best Buy on Airport Way. Blowing like a SOB over there! Still snowing there and drifting too.

At least at 25 deg, it'll stay snow and not freezing rain!

We'll see what tomorrow brings.

There is very close to a foot of snow in Forest Grove. 29 degrees, almost no wind, and I don't know the rest.

Snow fall remains unchanged since about 6:00 this morning.

8 1/2 inches of snow in Hillsboro.

Wow. Kinda cool...for now, I guess.

Now it's light sleet. The beginning of the not so cool part !!

And I checked. We got 14 inches here. Man, that's a record for anywhere I've lived and in recent years.

BRING IT ON! I went up and down hills today that would have made a Mountain Goat afraid!

I have been really enjoying the tranquility of this weather. I just saw our neighborhood raccoon family plow across the backyard. It is pretty deep -- even under the trees and shrubs.

By the look of things, we got the deicers going up at Stonehenge just in the nick of time.

2:00 AM East Vancouver

There is about 8-10 inches here in my back yard.

Weather station says its 26.7 deg F, but it is raining.

Vehicles have 1/8" of ice on them. Had to scrape the Cruiser off so I could go pick up my daughter from a friend’s house.

The roads are slick, but not unmanageable if you are careful.

There is a definite sheen from the ice on them, but braking isn't too bad as long as you are not going too fast!

Tomorrow may be another story! We'll see.

We were up to 13" in Sandy...the ice layer overnight (1/2") compacted the snow back down to 12". Hanging at about 26 degrees, I don't know if we will get above freezing today or not.

10 1/2 with 1/2 of that being ice in Hillsboro

We got a little less than half an inch ice.

Took a walk today. Man, it's just great! Everything is quiet, coffee place is open ?!? and it's just fun to be outside.

(I'm inside warming up now!!)

We have 8 inches of powder in the Tri-Cities . Snow showers right now, and 15 degrees.

I was digging our cars out of the driveways and noticed my son's van had a flat tire ! Oh that was fun, havent changed a tire on a snow packed gravel parking area in a few years ! Might has well have gone with the kids in the neighborhood snowboarding...

Heavy snow just like yesterday!

Man! It's another inch or so without even going an hour or two.

Bummer on the flat. Don't break a knuckle!

fun fun fun...

In Sheridan:

internet and phone just got turned back on(they were off since 4:30 this morning), power has been off and on...even our cell phone service was out...the only communication out was through our local 2 metre repeater!

Now we are up to 12" of snow and still snowing and 28 degrees...bah humbug!

More snow and more ice here. Put the chains on the Escape. After listening to the ice on top of a foot of snow scrape the underside of the Escape, I decided not to go anywhere. Eyeballed the 4x4 dump truck but instead just scraped ice of the satellite dish and came back inside.

Tomorrow's commute should be interesting. I drove into Porttown today and all of the side streets were bad. Lots of cars stuck everywhere and at the Napa on columbia Blvd they were parked in the street trying to get in and buy chains!

Chains are now required in Porttland aren't they? When they are required and you get stuck it's a pretty hefty ticket I hear!

I-5 was pretty much two lanes both ways. The dudes on the left with chains and the ones on the right without!

Hmmmm......Left side people with brains....Right side those without!

Good grief!

Another 3-4 inches! We are just hammered out here. I'm working from home today big time.

This is officially getting nuts. Since i apparently gave all my chains away when we moved (they were either all rusted or the wrong size) and didn't replace before the "Arctic Blast!!!" hit, we are housebound. But, we live within walking distance to downtown Tualatin, so we are not missing out on much. I think I've gained a couple of pounds since this started! Gotta go, we are walking over to the store, we're almost out of wine!

I'm snowed in here (Hillsboro). We have not had garbage pickup today, although the mailman did stop by. I'm not leaving the house unless there is some really good reason to do so, and I will likely be taking TriMet. I won't risk sharing the road with people who don't know how to drive in icy and snowy conditions.

The novelty of the snow wore off a long time ago, in my opinion. When I lived in Buffalo and Rochester, this was typical winter weather, but those cities didn't shut down as a result because people were prepared.

I hear you guys! We are doing the same, and will be making a wine run for my father in law. (maybe for me, hell!)

People are driving ok, but it's just not worth it. TRI-MET isn't doing a bad job, making most things necessary, possible for most people. Could be worse!

Of course, I said that last week!

LOL!!

Hey Warner, post something up in a coupla hours! Just so we know you got back ok!

I'm starting my nasty walk now. It's about a mile...

Is this really Gloable WARMING??BRRR!!!

gLOBAL WARMING!!??

Global Warming? Who knows? By looking at a map of the current US temperatures it would be hard to tell. The little warm spell that was going on on the East Coast last week is history. Even the Georgia coast is in the 30s. The warmest spot is the southern tip of Florida, which is at 68 degrees.

Nonetheless, the average global temperatures are slowly creeping up, and the carbon dioxide levels are rapidly going up. It is known that carbon dioxide could help to trap heat in the earth's atmosphere, but there is no good model that says "if the CO2 levels go up by x ppm, global temperatures will go up by y degrees." It is possible that the global temperatures might continue going up, even if humans were successful in stabilizing the CO2. This is why the climate change issue has become so politicized.

No 62, it's "global warming". Note the spelling and positions of the upper and lower case letters. I imagine if the Jargon File had an entry on GW, it might read something like this rather rhetorical paragraph:

"A natural phenomenon relating to Earth's climate wherein global temperatures rise. Global warming has occured in varying degrees of fluctuation since the Earth was formed. However, political propaganda currently abound giving the impression that it is something which has only taken place since the early 20th century, and that it is somehow entirely man-made. It is widely believed the chemical carbon dioxide is involved in man-made global warming, but the real-world effects of it are largely unproven by non-pseudoscientific or non-politicised methods."

(I'm still waiting to hear back from Eric on that one.)

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I was able to manage going to my Folks' place to shovel their driveway and front walk today. Only took me three hours and now my back is aching. Fortunately I put electric floor heating down in the basement several years ago, and I'm boiling down here right now as it is.............

(It's like ceiling heat but in reverse. Not to mention it's waaaaaaaaaaay more efficient.)

Kinda looks like I'll be staying here for most of the week. At least it is far warmer here than the apartment!

Made it back, opened the wine at 5pm. Tried to move the car out of the driveway, uh, nope. That's not happenin.

Folks, it's "Climate Change", not "Global Warming."

It's a cause and effect thing.

Some climate change is going to happen no matter what humans do. The problem is that although scientists can identify specific effects of climatic change (such as if the water temperature goes over so many degrees, salmon can't spawn), our ability to model the overall climate is still somewhat crude.

Cutting back on carbon dioxide emissions requires a change in behavior, and the results of such efforts are uncertain. What aspects of modern society are we willing to give up in or what comfortable habits would we be willing to change in hopes of doing good but without any guarantee of a beneficial outcome? Would American society be willing to accept the construction of new nuclear power plants? Would Americans accept that they need to drive less (say 50% less)? Would Americans warm up to the idea of having to replace their cars? Would Americans be happy if the cost of electricity went up in order to finance building of new power plants to replace coal burning and garbage incinerator plants?

Good!

I did fine too. Was a nice walk. Watched lots of people do stupid stuff with their cars. Waved and said, "hello" to some people I didn't know too.

Dodged a coupla snowballs!

All in all, a nice trip!

Alfredo, to me the point is this: Wouldn't it be better to try and do the right thing, and hope the result is better, than to do nothing and get results that are worse? Or the even the same? Because obviously, things are getting worse now.

Alfredo, my driving is currently job related mostly. If there are alternatives, I would seek them to both reduce my monthly cost dependency overall (less driving), and just for better quality of life.

I'm not so hot on nuclear, unless we really think the waste through, and go the distance on using it fully, not just once for the easy energy score.

Totally would replace my car, if it would really pay off. And that pay off doesn't have to be in terms of dollars per mile. If we get a serious energy advantage in terms of better environmental quality, or sustainability and those things mean jobs too, I'm ok with that.

It can even be more expensive to drive per mile, don't care. (these things would come with driving less, so who cares?)

Things I want to do:

Have most things be walkable. Where I'm at, it's better on that score, but nowhere good enough.

Want to buy local. Really don't like all the big chains. Avoid them as much as I can actually.

Rebuild a home that's sustainable to a high degree. Geo thermal heat, solar power assist, high efficiency design, room to grow food, green house, animals. That, plus buying local would cut me out of most all purchases now going to chains.

Electronics and some niche items would still require that, but I could live with that, given the other things happen some day.

Continue to fix my own stuff. New tech does not have to be closed tech, or extremely difficult tech. Those are not answers to any problems other than those that big companies have trying to get bigger. No value add for me, so no thanks!

Sorry to be a bit off topic, but I suppose the idea of cutting the carbon foot print extends to more than just better cars, or different major sources of energy. IMHO, we need to live a lot leaner than most of us currently do.

"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

I'm ready for RAIN... or better yet SPRING

We got about another 4" here in east Vancouver!

Probably 15" - 18" in the back yard!

Yeah!

Just took a drive with my new chains (yeah!). Now the slush-ruts are even worse than the snow. Quite the mess out there. Let's see, if those things freeze up, it could be wild!

Okay, so now the melting has taken hold. The chains are off. No more rut-surfing! YEAH!

Have not needed chains the last three days except for my own driveway. The last 300 yards have been a real bear! Got my truck stuck twice in my own driveway, had to tug it out with the 4wd tractor! The ruts are finally down to gravel so it's doable now. Had about two feet total accumulation and it can just go away now. The novelty of a Snow is way long over with.

I lost 4 trees on my small city lot.
Much clean-up to do.

On the bright side maybe less shade will make my garden more productive this year.

Started snowing here at around 12:45am and now we have a 1/2 inch of snow on the ground.

Same here in East Vancouver. I didn't think it would stick!

Cool! I hope we have 12" (of snow, get your mind out of the gutter!!!) by morning!

It's snowed 1 inch in the past hour. We now have 1 1/2 inches.

It's slowed way down here. Probably about an inch on the ground.

Huge flakes though when it was snowing.

Minor league rain / snow slush here.

Creeping up on 1/2 inch where I live!

1/2 inch in Hillsboro!!!!

Flurries here in east Vancouver.

caused by:global warming!!!!!

Caused by changing weather patterns ALL over the globe!!!!!!!!!!

SNOW! I've got 3/4 of an inch and it's coming down fast!

Now 2 inches!

We ended up with about 1.5" before it turned to rain.

36.3 F here right now!

I won't mention the almost foot we got.

This is criminally insane.

as of 11:16am the snow that fell last night is COMPLETELY gone! YAHOO!

No snow of course (52.3 F), but lots of wind.

My weather station says it 26.3 mph varying from SE to SW.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_re_us/spokane_snow_blues

It's 45 and dumping rain here now, holy crap we're gonna have some hellacious flooding.

Wow. Just saw 38.2 mph wind on my weather station!

That's windy!

There is no chance of accumulation, but big fat snowflakes are gently falling in my backyard.

Where's your backyard?

Had a caller earlier today tell me it was snowing over Cornelius Pass but not sticking.

Kinda cool tonite to walk out of the Rose Garden after a Blazer win with a chalupa card in hand and IT'S SNOWING!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh... It's gone! Thank the Lord above!!!!

Hey Trixy,
I think that "snow" you apparently saw earlier was dandruff.

Beaner,
I hope not! I'm going to have to fire my barber.

Well the snow is everywhere today, and the usual places (schools, governments, transit systems) are starting to make emergency mid-day cancellations.

It'll all be rain by late this afternoon. Classic Portland winter.

Some years ago it snowed 5 inches on March 2. My wife and I have a picture of ourselves just outside the radio station where we worked. By days end it was all gone.

Let it melt.. Let it melt... Let it melt!