Talk about a mess, it seems Portland freeways all have some kind of construction going on; but when the snow started coming down yesterday, Portland became the largest parking lot on the west coast.
Eugene, OR didn't get snow, they had to be different, so they got an inch of Ice.
Portland got about 3" (yes, that's all it takes, there are a LOT of hills here) but it started at 2:00pm and the parking lot started shortly after. Here's an email I send to a friend in Indiana last night:
What a mess in and around Portland last night. Some of the schools didn't let the kids out early, and they got stuck in that traffic. They said some weren't home until 9:00 or 10:00 that night. Some other schools had the kids stay there, at a couple of them, they had to stay overnight. There was one stretch of I-5 that it was taking 4 1/2 hours to travel 14miles. Eugene, OR (100 miles south of Portland) got a little over an 1" of solid ice.
We ended up with 3/8" of an inch and now everything is frozen solid. The schools here knew better and let the kids out at 12:30 and they all got home before anything heavy came down. In Battle Ground it's pretty flat, but just outside of town proper it's all hills, some pretty steep (we're in the foothills of the Cascades).
There was one news van that got stuck in the traffic and in an hour they had moved 500'
Just one big parking lot. They had people running out of gas, and rather than trying to push it out of the way, they just left it where it was.
Eugene, OR didn't get snow, they had to be different, so they got an inch of Ice.
Portland got about 3" (yes, that's all it takes, there are a LOT of hills here) but it started at 2:00pm and the parking lot started shortly after. Here's an email I send to a friend in Indiana last night:
What a mess in and around Portland last night. Some of the schools didn't let the kids out early, and they got stuck in that traffic. They said some weren't home until 9:00 or 10:00 that night. Some other schools had the kids stay there, at a couple of them, they had to stay overnight. There was one stretch of I-5 that it was taking 4 1/2 hours to travel 14miles. Eugene, OR (100 miles south of Portland) got a little over an 1" of solid ice.
We ended up with 3/8" of an inch and now everything is frozen solid. The schools here knew better and let the kids out at 12:30 and they all got home before anything heavy came down. In Battle Ground it's pretty flat, but just outside of town proper it's all hills, some pretty steep (we're in the foothills of the Cascades).
There was one news van that got stuck in the traffic and in an hour they had moved 500'
Just one big parking lot. They had people running out of gas, and rather than trying to push it out of the way, they just left it where it was.