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SNOW

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited December 2012
The snow is white and fluffy, it is pretty

nonetheless, I am feeling a bit concerned w/r/t my drive home this afternoon, and even the possibility of getting out of the parking lot. I parked in the upper lot just in case but still

what does one do if one is stranded on campus? Walk to barbur and hitchhike

WTF
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  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Mostly melted up on The Hill! I bet you wil be able to get home.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    seems better now...fingers crossed
    I have to make it until like 2:30 or 3:00!
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    It won't get worse, will only get better as the day warms.

    What do YOU think the chances of getting stranded are? Like 95%?

    It's weird you would think about hitchhiking before taking the Pio Express or a bus.

    Other options: take off all clothes lay down and die
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I considered that option but have put it like 3rd, after "starting new life on campus" and "hitchhiking with homicidal maniac"

    chances of getting stranded are basically 100% at this point
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Option 4 ... fly away
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    everybody can relax, I made it home
  • 12341234
    I FEEL BETTER!
  • freddyfreddy
    Generally speaking, my preferred transportation modes when there is snow are, in this order:

    1. Walking (with big ol' waterproof boots and Yak Trax). You are totally in control of your destiny, and staying warm in the cold weather. Not so good for icy conditions. Very slow.
    2. Bus. I always trust a big heavy bus with a professionally-trained driver not to get in a crash. And TriMet tries really hard to anticipate weather events and respond properly. BUT often drivers are freaking out and crashing, and buses have to go back to the garage for chaining and stuff gets behind, so this is actually way less reliable than #1. I have literally waited in the snow on MLK for the #6 for two hours in the snow before.
    3. Biking. I really don't like any risk of slipping around. I know this makes me a "baby," and I know a lot of people who think it's fun, but I just don't dig it. Also, I bike up the Mississippi hill every day...
    4. Driving. Even if I had a car, you don't want me driving in the snow, I don't want me driving in the snow, nobody wants me driving in the snow. For reals, yo.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    A few years back, when we had that crazy 7-day blizzard, I left ski-happy Hawthorne to catch a Northbound bus... bus got stuck at Rose Quarter. I walked to Steve's house from there! It was fun.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    In like 2004 when there was a crazy 4-day long ice storm and the whole city (including bus) was shut down, I walked from my house at Killingsworth and Cleveland to the apartment on NW Glisan where Fiona and Mike were living, and my old man at the time. It took forever. The sky turned from afternoon to full dark. I had to walk the entire way in that awkward flat-footed ice-walk you do when you don't want to slip. People in their yards making snowmen kept yelling WHERE YOU GOIN at me. Walked over the Broadway Bridge. It was awesome
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    then the next day I was walking to work (I wanted to make some dollars, hence the walk across town in the first place) and I was holding a coffee in one hand and an OJ in the other and the footing was so precarious ad scary and as I was crossing 21st a guy goes "You've made a bad decision!" which I thought was such an awesome thing to yell at someone in that situation
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Couple of years ago I left Jive early during a snowstorm to go and meet Marcus at Joe's Cellar to get drunk on whiskey. On my bike. Slid into the streetcar tracks (SO DUMB OF ME), and somehow got thrown off my bike, onto my feet, still holding onto my handlebars, and kind of slid/stumbled across the street. Ended up standing on the other side of the street, still holding onto my bike. Some passersby applauded. I felt stupid/awesome. Then I went and drank whiskey.
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    I've actually never seen snow.

    I'm scared after reading these stories!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    the other thing people often forget about snow is that it can burn your skin off
  • kdawgkdawg
    another thing people often forget is that "informer" is a great song.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    hen farmer
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I am so glad that I moved away from those cities where you have to deal with the "intentional walking" situation most of winter because of the snow and ice. I feel bonkers just remembering the years of slippery walks.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2012
    I like the acoustic qualities of snow ^_^
    How it sucks up the sound and everything is so quiet... it as to sound as velvet is to light
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    snow is amazing acoustically. The crunch and squeak! So dry and yet so wet

    I don't mind the snow walking. But I get why snow is intense/difficult. I grew up in snow and am pretty comfortable in it, all things considered, I prefer snow to heat. But I get why others would not. My brother as a child famously said in a great fury "the snow is cold and dummy" and we still say this 30 years later and I will say it forever. From the mouths of babes!

  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2012
    I finally got to meet your brother a couple weekends ago

    He is a nice man
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    that was your first time? That's so cool!
    He is a really nice man. Would not hurt a fly, that one.
    He'll be here in a couple days! Maybe you can see him again!!

  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    I'd like to see him again. That man is so handsome.
    (I hope it gets funnier and not creepier each time I remark on your brother's good looks. He is very good looking.)
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    not creepy yet! He is indeed quite a looker!
    and ladies he's single
    just saying
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Ladies????
    how heteronormative!?!?!
  • LelandLeland
    edited December 2012
    You totally have a shot, UncleCuteShoes!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    ladies and newly-homo Uncle Bleep Shoe, I meant
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    RAIN
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    this rain is no joke! Snoopy and I just had a very incredible walk

    imagine if every time you had to poop you had to go outside! Snoopy's life is hard
  • lolololo
    Marc, I get so worried thinking about your tall body balancing on slippery walks. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE. STAY LOW.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Use your arms and hands to balance. Expect that you could slip on each step. Attach cleats to your shoes. Lead with the knee. Hold on to the rail.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Can my headphones electrocute me if they get wet?
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I HAVE WONDERED THIS BEFORE
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Wind was blowing me around on my bike this morning!

    So glad I don't have to poo outside. Even though I love camping, I hate dumping outside more than just about anything. Indoor plumbing and toilets are the best thing about the modern era.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I like dumping outside! Is that weird

    I mean, not just any outside-dump, I mean a specific nature mountain hike dump

    In 8th grade I did Outward Bound and just really tapped into how awesome and peaceful and primal it can be. There was one great moment where I was taking a nice dump up on a mountainside, looking out over a beautiful valley, not a soul in sight, and I was super stoked

    Also I grew up in a house that had no indoor plumbing like 65% of the time, so I got really used to going to the bathroom outside

    I sound like a feral child, I just realized
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I don't dislike it.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    thread bump
    http://isitsnowinginpdx.com/
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I do like dumping outside

    I do not love this snow but it's fine

    I am reading Malcolm X and answering confidential calls from the counseling service about students in crisis, also eating old bread

    pretty cozy
  • 000000
    I thought the dog was going to hate the snow because she's so skinny and cold, but she had fun and I was the one grumbling around the block while she fought and conquered sticks and Mike made fun of me for hating it so much.
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    It was pretty amusing to see the un-published post I had started on this thread about taking a dump! DELETED.
  • 12341234
    She tried to eat the snow in the air. Pretty cute. (Gia, not arijkem)
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I remember snoopy in Iowa was like a sea creature in the snow. Diving in and leaping out! Face completely covered, he was Old Man Winter. He didn't give a shit about the cold and would stand there shaking like a leaf for as long as you'd let him. We made him wear a nerdy jacket that he didn't like.

    the snow's gone now, huh?? COOL, I canceled my class's afternoon study session for naught! Who cares though
  • ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
    guys! we've had more snow in Buffalo in the past two weeks than Portland has had in the past five years. and it's not even that much! it's been really cool watching this city absolutely kick snow in the dick. we pretty much need 18 inches of snow in less than 4 hours to actually get anyone's attention. AIN'T NO THING.
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Buffalo averages 96 inches a year! One of the snowiest places!
    Portland averages 3 inches a year.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Yeah it's so funny to compare just the cultural vibe of snowy place with non-snowy, w/r/t snow. In Iowa they would not cancel school for anything less than 3 feet overnight such that you literally could not drive a car down the street. Those motherfuckers went to school in negative 20 degree weather and 2 feet of snow and blizzards jamming ice into your eyeballs!!!!!! I don't think growing up in Telluride that school was canceled for snow a single time in my life, EXCEPT that sometimes if it was a truly wicked powder day they'd cancel school so we could all go skiing

    my hometown rules
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    In the midwest I drove through blizzards so many times, but Portland drivers are questionable even in perfect weather, so when snow falls and sticks I leave my car parked for the duration.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    You don't need to tell me, Bill. Rochester had a very similar vibe.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    more snow today! just a light dustin'

  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Great update, YT!

    I'm gonna elaborate on that update and share the joyful news that while driving around this AM it seemed like to only snowed north of Killingsworth. SE didn't received a flake. WEIRD!

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    My commute further illustrates this strange joint update of ours, such that there was a real solid dustin' in my neighborhood in North, but when I got off the bus downtown there was NARY a flake in sight and the pavement 'twas dry as the proverbial bone. HOWEVER, upon arriving atop the hill where my place of work lies, there was again the same solid dustin' that had greeted me at my own hearth and home.

    micro climates!?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Lots of NoPo is around 200 feet in elevation. L&C is around 500 feet. Elevation is probably a factor?

    Possibly downtown is slightly warmer due to concentration of large buildings/traffic? Maybe proximity to the river has something to do with it? SE Portland is at a slightly lower elevation? We got a dusting at my place on Albina. I'm no scientist!
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