Odds of Ice-out Tonight? (100%! Game has been rescheduled.)

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    So, the chance of snow/freezing rain is about 100% today. What are the odds the game gets cancelled tonight? May as well make a game out of it. Post your prediction in photo format as to whether there will/won't, yes/no, etc. be a game format. Winner gets to have Sly come shovel their sidewalk.
     
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    I'm guessing they're going to reschedule the game. MAX can not run with ice on the lines. You know there will be multiple dipshits crashing as they come out of the tunnel on Hwy 26. Getting to the game should be okay but getting home could be deadly.
     
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    All the northern, east coast cities are laughing at this.
     
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    I bet you're one of those dogs that craps on the sidewalk when it snows because you don't want to get your paws cold.
     
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    You mean those cities where they actually have the manpower and equipment to deal with a frozen mess like this?
     
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    Why?

    I remember back to back ice storms when I was a kid. First we didn't have power for 5 days, second for 4 days. Freezing rain is no joke.
     
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    I have family back east that live in a smaller town with no equipment or manpower. They have to wait till those resources show up from somewhere else and are always among the last to have roads cleared, power restored etc.

    They just deal with it.
     
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    YES! We should hire people and buy equipment that we only need to use every 6-7 years.
     
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    Hey, don't bother preaching to the choir. It wouldn't make sense spending the money on these things given the infrequency of the storms. Just pointing out the obvious, that we're not used to, and ill-equipped to deal with these things. I'm just staying home and hoping the power stays on.
     
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    Yeah, but they know they're going to have to deal with it on a regular basis and gear up for it.
     
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    My wife is leaving the car at work and hiking about 8 miles home this morning after her shift...can't get up or down the hills where we live so I get the night off...have to see about tomorrow...roads are brutal right now
     
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    A day or two of cold weather, and everyone is in panic mode, wimps.

    Portland got so cold, and for so long in the late 1970s, that the Columbia River froze solid. You could drive your car across the river.

    Don’t remember the exact year the river froze, but they where still building the Glenn Jackson bridge at the time.
     
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    You're making your wife walk 8 miles in the snow?

    Hire her a uber, lyft or cab. They'll have chains. Pay a neighbor to pick her up.

    If we get the freezing rain that they say we are things could get very dangerous. Even a small branch with an inch of ice around it can crack a skull open.
     
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    I don't believe that is true. The last time the Columbia froze was before they built all the dams. The Sandy river has frozen.
     
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    She wanted to hike it....not my choice. I offered to call her a cab...neighbors are stuck around here...we live above the snow line
     
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