Event Ho... Ho... Cold! Snowvid 2022 and 2023!

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  1. MickZagger

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    General consensus among truckers:

    Other states are little more coordinated
     
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    Guys, If you need to drive in the snow/ice, first thing to do is get proper snow/ice tires. If you do not have that, try to stay at home.

    I believe I told this before, the last real big snow storm we had in Portland when we still lived there was maybe 2007/2008? Had one kid in the Zoo camp for the winter break. My wife' with her all-wheel-drive Subaru were downtown. The snow started coming down, I had a set of Blizzak snow tires I put on my 1991 rear-wheel-drive BMW 318i, put them on, went to bring the kid from the zoo, 26 was a mess so after one stop went off and went over the big steep hill where the big cemetery is above Barnes road? went all the way to the top, started to come down to the zoo, in my rear-wheel-drive car seeing SUVs and Subarus sliding into the ditch at the sides of the road. Got the kid, headed home. My wife's Subaru was stuck downtown. Told her to leave it parked there, pick the toddler from the daycare which was near her office and take the Max. She did that, and I took the older kid in that same RWD car, drove to the Max station and picked them without any issues.

    It's all about traction and tires are the most important factor. We do not have much snow here, but we do have a Lexus GX470 SUV with AWD, low range and lockers etc.. we use for desert trips. It had all-season tires on it - and once it got muddy, no matter what I used, it would slide all over. Got a set of Geolander all-terrain tires for it (they are also snow rated, but that's not the main reason for it) - and we have seen gone to the desert during storms and did river crossings with built modified Jeeps... it's traction first.
     
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    Just overnight.

    I had a moment when you wrote that lmao
     
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    Pouring rain. My toilet blocked. I am usually successful plunging it but this time overflow. Roto Rooter is on the way. Lucia has hairballs.
     
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    Aren't you required to stop and render assistance if you see an accident?
     
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    Herp derp, damn Oregawnians can't drive in the sn0w!!1!
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    How much of that is the population density?

    There are no major roads/highways coming from the west in Washington there (like there is with Highway 30, 26, 217), nor is there anything major coming from the east (205, 84), and there's no major population blocks like there is in Portland, in Vancouver (Gresham, Beaverton, Hillsboro, east side of Portland, west side of Portland, south of Portland, etc).

    Not denying that ODOT blows monkey dingleberries, but there's a reason why it's harder to keep the roads in Oregon clear. There's like 5x as many people in the Portland area than there is in SW Washington, and it's a safe bet that more of them travel into Oregon than Washington for work. It's like when when you drive into Vancouver it's like 1/3 of the cars disappear. There is a lot more room for the highway to expand, plus there's a ton less people.

    But definitely doesn't help that the highways bottleneck and the state and city are hamstrung by a lack of available space to expand the current highway systems or create a new one.
     
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    Not if it entails putting yourself in harms way.
     
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    At the airport five hours early in hopes of catching any flight. Most flights on the board read delayed.
    I thought i read hcp is stuck somewhere too?


    anyone else?
     
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    Yeah it’s probably a mix of both reasons. Oregon does have more bridges which don’t help the cause with snow. But the completely drastic difference in roads makes me think that one DOT department plans ahead, while the other reacts.
     
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    It’s so sunny I want to go outside, but the wind chill is fucking ridiculous. Time to smoke and curl up in a ball
     
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    The winds coming out of the gorge that often help exacerbate the ice, generally curves south into portland and not north into vancouver, due to the geography of the mountains on the north side of the river, stretching a little further west than the southern ones.
    Howd you like that run on sentence?!?
     
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    As I alluded to easier, it's much easier to plan ahead when you have a small population/roads to worry about.

    And again, I'm not absolving ODOT of being poorly run/mismanaged and underfunded.
     
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    I had a talk with a local weather buff a few years back, and they said that plays such a big part of the issue with the accuracy of weather forecasts for Portland/SW Washington.

    The gorge/influence of the east wind fucks things up, the Ocean fucks things up and then you have 2 mountain ranges that fucks things up.
     
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    Sounds like Portland is going to get hit again on Saturday.
     
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    SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
     
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    I think you are confusing me with your avatar, good sir...
     
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