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

Maybe the Willamette freezing up is what he mis-remembered as the Columbia:

"The Willamette River can more easily freeze up, which it did back in 1979 and in the 1920s."

 

no you don't..... I covered up my computer camera....!

 

It froze.
I was living on a houseboat at the time on the Columbia River. We had our Christmas tree out on the ice.

I also had a fire on my houseboat that winter, (due to overloading the Swedish fireplace). We had to use an axe to make a hole in the ice so the fire dept could get water to their portable water pumps.

 

Outta curiousity.....I see you're in Oregon City. My wife grew up there (8th & Pierce). Is the city still aggressively proactive for events like this? Back in the day those folks were outstanding at it. When I was first married we had a house basically next door to the mother in law. I had to be to work in Milwaukee by 6 am. It didn't matter how bad conditions got, the City of Oregon City had those streets and hills plowed and sanded very single ice/snow event by 6 am. It was awesome. Just wondering if they still have their shit together on that......

 

Just say it was her basement...which is sort of next door

 

HEY! There you go again with the basement jokes.....

 

When we lived there, they proactively had road block signs closing Singer Hill. They wouldn't touch our neighborhood. But it looked like they'd done a bit of work cleaning up down the hill.

 

Actually, it was wonderful. She was a widow who had no sons and wasn't particularly enamored with my brother in law. That woman treated me extremely well. She's the one who sold us our house. It wasn't my wife's cooking that lead to me putting on weight, it was the MIL's cooking....and taking us out for meals 3-4 times a week because we had very little money. I was blessed with the best mother in law in the world and when she passed a year and a half into our marriage I was truly devasted. There hasn't been a single day in the past 39 years since that I haven't missed her dearly.....both my son's literally got the mothers in law from hell (and then some). Poor bastards........

 

Ain't that the truth...

Speaking of ice-outs... That B done been iced out of our lives forever.

 

They're pretty good about getting the main routes cleared/sanded. The local streets - not so much.

 

Yeah. That's all you could've heard in that short amount of time. It'd take at least a day to explain it.

 

And that's the short version......

 

Clearing the air about the Columbia River freezing over, since the news agencies and my memory are both slightly off.

The year probably was 1979. I lived on the houseboat for a couple of years, and that year fits.

No one drove across the Columbia River during 1979 cold spell. There was a lot of talk about trying it, and how people did drive across during the 30s freeze up. But it never happened as far as I know. Sorry for the exaggeration

The Christmas tree on ice (decorated with woman’s underwear, good times), the fire and using an axe to make a hole in the ice is all true. But the ice was only about 3-4” thick, which would not be thick enough to drive across. The ice was probably thinner out near the middle of the Columbia River.

 

Personally, I drive just fine in snow. But no one is actually driving when they are sliding on ice into the car in front of them, into a ditch, or into a pedestrian.

This tired suggestion that ice covering the roads is the same as snow is silly. I don't give a shit where you live, when the road is a slick sheet of ice, you're fucked. I've experienced it first hand. And I've seen footage of cars and trucks skidding all over the place, accidents, and roads closed all over the country at one time or another. And that includes states like Nebraska, Minnesota, and up state New York where they expect and prepare for snow and ice every year.

Hopefully it doesn't get that bad. Last week I learned the new tires on my car do not handle this weather well.

 

I'm assuming they would of already announced it by now if the game was cancelled. So Detroit could fly out before the snow/ice. Typically the NBA only cancels games if the opposing team can't fly in. The Pistons flew in to PDX yesterday, so they are already here.
As a fan, this will be a good game to go to because they will probably allow fans in the upper sections of the arena to move down and fill seats in the 100 level.