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We continue now with our live, comprehensive coverage of the Portland Snowstorm of '07. Snow continues to fall in our area, and as it hits the ground, it is piling up. Since the air temperature is 27 degrees, and the freezing point is 32 degrees, the snow that falls is not melting, but rather accumulating.
Accumulated snow can be slippery, and it appears that this snow is no exception.
Stay tuned to bojack.org Storm Center 9000 for further updates all day long. We look out the window -- so you don't have to.
I will never forget the snow/ice storm of '96 that preceded the floods. My then girlfriend and I had sequestered ourselves in her place up on Pill Hill and prepared to watch an NBA game we'd been looking forward to all week. We all know how the story turns out, of course. The goofs at KGW decided to go wall-to-wall Storm Center that day, telling us if we didn't have to go out...don't. It would have been nice to see the game that day. Just as it would have been nice to watch Judge Joe Brown this morning.
I know school is closed. I know the snow's not gonna stop. And I know it's gonna be a funky drive home. Someone needs to entertain me. Maybe with a horse kicking a chicken.
Gee...looks like TriMet got caught with its...chains off! and the weather 'forecasters' were way off the mark.
However, it is January after all. I am not too sure why the intensity of coveryage is necessary. What would everyone do if it snowed in July?
Thanks for looking out the window for all of us, Jack.
The folks over at the Storm Team 12 blog called the snow yesterday afternoon and they were not even in Portland. They are at some Meteorology convention down in San Antonio. Matt Zaffino on channel 8 last night totally blew it, though maybe his cold medicine was affecting his judgment.
We're over 3 inches at 9:30 am in Brooklyn with tons of little ones sledding down the little hill in Brooklyn Park.
I did have a wonderful 3-mile run in the snow this morning. It was a good workout that felt like running in soft sand.
Tradition says that the kids in our neighborhood take over the steepest local road for sledding, and shut down traffic (there are ways around, though). That happened this morning. I consider this a perk of living here.
Oh the bitter gnashing of teeth that filled our house this morning when first it appeared PPS would not close. Oh the full-throated bay of joy that smote our windowpanes and shivered the snow on the shrubbery outside when word came in PPS would close.
And, that was just our one 15 year-old boy. When the full gaggle of his friends arrived an hour later, things got really noisy.
Now they are all out, infesting our neighborhood in the time-honored snow day way -- sledding on streets that will now be (if they weren't before) entirely impassable to cars, throwing snowballs and hanging out with members of the opposite sex.
The cat sleeps on Frank's pillow, having lost all faith in my ability to present him with an open door leading to sunshine and butterflies...
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
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Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 32
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (13)
How cold is 27 degrees?
Posted by Allan L. | January 16, 2007 10:23 AM
Let's put it this way. This morning I saw a squirrel on our deck, warming his nuts on the cover of our hot tub.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 16, 2007 10:24 AM
I'm guessing about 5 degress below freezing.
Posted by GreyDuck | January 16, 2007 10:25 AM
I will never forget the snow/ice storm of '96 that preceded the floods. My then girlfriend and I had sequestered ourselves in her place up on Pill Hill and prepared to watch an NBA game we'd been looking forward to all week. We all know how the story turns out, of course. The goofs at KGW decided to go wall-to-wall Storm Center that day, telling us if we didn't have to go out...don't. It would have been nice to see the game that day. Just as it would have been nice to watch Judge Joe Brown this morning.
I know school is closed. I know the snow's not gonna stop. And I know it's gonna be a funky drive home. Someone needs to entertain me. Maybe with a horse kicking a chicken.
Posted by Chris Snethen | January 16, 2007 10:26 AM
Gee...looks like TriMet got caught with its...chains off! and the weather 'forecasters' were way off the mark.
However, it is January after all. I am not too sure why the intensity of coveryage is necessary. What would everyone do if it snowed in July?
Thanks for looking out the window for all of us, Jack.
Posted by Anne K | January 16, 2007 10:26 AM
It's so exciting when it warms up to freezing.
Posted by Cynthia | January 16, 2007 10:27 AM
Just in...
KGW says that the tram is OPEN and free to all today. No waiting
Posted by Anne K | January 16, 2007 10:29 AM
The folks over at the Storm Team 12 blog called the snow yesterday afternoon and they were not even in Portland. They are at some Meteorology convention down in San Antonio. Matt Zaffino on channel 8 last night totally blew it, though maybe his cold medicine was affecting his judgment.
We're over 3 inches at 9:30 am in Brooklyn with tons of little ones sledding down the little hill in Brooklyn Park.
I did have a wonderful 3-mile run in the snow this morning. It was a good workout that felt like running in soft sand.
Posted by hilsy | January 16, 2007 10:31 AM
freezing rain + snow in Corvallis..
OSU has not yet closed due to weather this year but did cancel all of the AM classes today.
Stay tuned!
Posted by Anthony | January 16, 2007 10:44 AM
The Tram that Saved Portland? I'm not ready for this!
Posted by Bill McDonald | January 16, 2007 10:48 AM
How cold is 27 degrees?
I saw a robin putting its worm in a microwave.
Posted by rr | January 16, 2007 10:55 AM
Tradition says that the kids in our neighborhood take over the steepest local road for sledding, and shut down traffic (there are ways around, though). That happened this morning. I consider this a perk of living here.
Posted by John Rettig | January 16, 2007 10:56 AM
Oh the bitter gnashing of teeth that filled our house this morning when first it appeared PPS would not close. Oh the full-throated bay of joy that smote our windowpanes and shivered the snow on the shrubbery outside when word came in PPS would close.
And, that was just our one 15 year-old boy. When the full gaggle of his friends arrived an hour later, things got really noisy.
Now they are all out, infesting our neighborhood in the time-honored snow day way -- sledding on streets that will now be (if they weren't before) entirely impassable to cars, throwing snowballs and hanging out with members of the opposite sex.
The cat sleeps on Frank's pillow, having lost all faith in my ability to present him with an open door leading to sunshine and butterflies...
Posted by Anne Dufay | January 16, 2007 12:44 PM