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

I only vaguely remember the rivers freezing but I do remember I worked out on 201st and Sandy Blvd (the edge of Troutdale) back then and that was one cold ass winter. The next January wasn't any better. Remembering helps keep the current forecast in perspective....

 

I lived in upstate new york.

There are two major differences.
One. They don't deal with on the verge freezing weather. Meaning snow that melts then freezes then melts then freezes. When it snows there it is always well below freezing.
Two. They use salt.

 

I also remember the next Jan being very cold. I had sold my houseboat and move to the house in Vancouver. The water pipes froze and the electricity was out for about a week.

 

A woman who my mother knows
Came in and took off all her clothes.

Said I, not being very old,
'By golly gosh, you must be cold!'

'No, no!' she cried. 'Indeed I'm not!
I'm feeling devilishly hot!'

"Hot And Cold"
Roald Dahl

 

It's the fans responsibility to decide if they can safely get to & from the game. Nobody is forcing them to go to the game. But I guess that's the way it is nowadays, it's always someone else's fault. "I got in an accident driving home from the Blazer game, shame on the Blazers organization for not canceling the game!". Ridiculous.

 

We had a pretty brutal cold snap during the winter of 95/96. I remember chunks of ice in the Willamette River, which I thought was pretty cool. Can only imagine what it'd be like for a layer of ice over the river.

Speaking of 95/96, this year's weather has been eerily similar. It was capped by a flood in February. Be prepared.

 

I want that job.

 

Dang Sly! Looks like A LOT of blood in your urine......

 

Thats neat and all but do you have the skills to invert it? Red background with snowwhite lettering?

 

I heard about this happening a long, long, long time ago. However, I went to a snow game about 7ish years ago where people were just laying free tickets on the benches out front because so many people couldn't make it. I went from my 300 levels to a mid-100 level seat in the 2nd quarter and it took about 2 minutes before they booted me. It was less than 50% full. I tried to tell the usher that the team needed my yelling since the arena was so empty...she didn't agree.

I have chains, kitty litter, 4 Wheel drive and will be at the game tonight regardless. However, I grew up in Vermont, spent 10 years living at 7700 feet in Colorado and know how to get around. The roads here are the worst I've ever seen. Driving in 10 inches of fresh loose snow is way easier that the ice that forms here. I finally figured out why with the last storm... since there are so many raised reflectors on the roads, most of the time the plows can't run their blades directly on the road. They keep them a couple inches off the ground to avoid tearing out the reflectors. On a lot of roads they never actually scrape the road clear.

 

Coattail rider!

 

Where in upstate New York food you live? I used to live in Fort Drum which was right next to Watertown.

 

Damn. never even heard of either, Though upstate is massive. I was barely upstate. I live in Port Jervis first. Tiny place in the Deleware River Valley where Pennsylvania Meets NY and NJ.
Then I later moved to Newburgh up the Hudson River a ways. Then I moved to White Plains for the last year I was there.
I used to love taking a driver every weekend in the summer and picking a new road and just heading NW and getting lost and finding my way back again. The small towns and scenery is simply endless.
I actually long to go back for a few weeks just to drive all over again.

 

Wrong Orange county there slick. though good call. I trecked all over Orange County, NY. and then some.