The weather service claims that it will melt by tomorrow. We shall see.
Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over in the corner, laughing maniacally to myself.
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Well, you live in a place where there are real winters, and when the snow comes down there’s a fighting chance that road department can clean it up to the point where it’s rideable.
Portland isn’t that place. The whole area ground to a stop pretty quickly after the snow started falling on the 14th (and when we got our big blizzard on the 21st, it was like christmas and new years in the paralytic poisons factory) – we can pray for better weather (and we get it; a few days of 40+ degrees and all the snow goes poof) but the next bit of serious snow closes things down again. So after 14-15 snowy days of 22, it’s time for seriously contemplating falling into catatonia.
True to a point, though we’re not Chicago and before e’re the season started, it was announced that road treating would be heavily reduced to trim budgets, and ice storms are in their own category… but at least our guys know the category, and know how to manage them as much as they can be managed. It’s got to be crazy-making when the infrastructure isn’t there.
I’m originally from the East Coast… when Richmond, VA had two more-than-a-foot snows a week or two apart without the usual “up-to-4o” respite between, it wasn’t a pretty scene. I believe three corpses were found when it finally melted - people didn’t make it back from their mailboxes and the like. It’s been nice to move out here, where people bundle up and slow down and keep on their merry way.
And happily, the weather has stayed “better” so that we got freezing mist instead of freezing rain… so my little studs just chomp away at it.
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Welp, I successfully ordered our weather to improve after two or three ice storms… Here’s hoping!