re: #469 sagehen

And again in 1978; it was 1/2 an inch, and the entire basin came to a standstill since there’s only one snowplow in the whole damn county (it just works the grapevine) so the only recourse was just wait for it to melt. It took a whole day.

Heh. Anytime there’s a significant snowfall event - or ice storm - up in the Portland, OR area, that’s pretty much it. It gets bad real quick. And there’s usually a few days every winter where there’s some ice or snow. Freezing rain is a particular problem, owing mostly to an atmospheric effect of the Columbia River Gorge.