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cgod  ·  2625 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 18, 2017

Kids in Portland have had 8 or 9 snow days so far this winter. Someone told me that they have only had 17 days of school since Thanksgiving. My kid was out sick for a few days before Christmas break.

The rain started yesterday but it's pouring down on roads that have more than an inch of ice. Thawed ruts with lakes in-between.

I'm over it. Dropping the kid off for a late start in about an hour.





flac  ·  2625 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's kind of shocking to me that a major city at the base of a mountain seems to have no game plan for more than an inch of snow. I've been applying for jobs all over the place this past week, and I've had to walk to all of them because the buses were running so late. Never thought I'd be so happy to see freezing rain

kleinbl00  ·  2625 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't speak for Portland, but Seattle has crowned roads in order to improve runoff from all the rain. A crowned road gets super-exciting with ice. And since ice happens so rarely, and there's so little that can be done about it, most people just call in a snow day.

For a while Seattle had this awesome relationship with a surplus dude. Seattle would have a snowstorm and the rabble would rouse about the lack of snowplows. So Seattle would buy snowplows and it wouldn't snow for two years and the rabble would rouse about the money we're wasting on snowplows so they'd sell them. To the surplus dude.

Who would sell them right back the next time the rabble roused.

I can't find it online but I swear he sold Seattle their used snowplows back to them like three times, profiting each time.

cgod  ·  2625 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In my 16 years of living here I've never seen weather like this.

In my wife's forty years of living here she last saw weather like this in 1980.

You've arrived on the tail end of the most ineffective mayor that I've seen misgovern this town.

Charlie Hales can't make or implement a plan for more than five minutes that he doesn't abandon and make a committee to come up with a new plan for six month only to abandon it five minutes after it goes into effect.

But yea, it's kind of stunning.

I know a guy who works on the crews that do street cleanup and they are mismanaged and unprepared. Every one in his department from the people with the shovels to the guys who drive the trucks knows this but management has no idea.

Welcome to the "City That Works!"

What do you do for work? Every once in a while I have a line on something. Mostly I'm not helpful but I've gotten at least one person a dope job in the last year.