Here’s some updated versions of the photos I took the other day.
We’ve now got a LOT of snow. More than I’ve seen in this neighborhood since moving to northeast in 2004. More than I’ve seen in Portland in a long time. Apparently the amount of snowfall for Portland is reaching the previous record high for this time of year, which was in 1969. Golly.
Yesterday was a bit crappier, in that there was a sheet of freezing rain from the early morning hours, which put an icy glaze over everything, including power lines and trees. Fortunately it was less than a half inch coating at our house, but other areas got hit pretty hard, major freeways were closed, and lots of people lost power (and/or tree limbs). However, by the afternoon it started snowing again, and it seemed to snow all night and continues now.
So the strata of this winter blanket around my neighborhood goes something like this:
- 5-8 inches of snow
- .25 – .5 inch of ice
- 3-4 inches of snow
- + still snowing
In some spots it’s deeper (due to the winds creating 1 to 2 foot deep piles). Either way, it’s just nutty, and very unusual, to get snow like this in Portland.