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Obviously, these are tips for getting to PDX during Snowpocalypse ‘08. Getting to the airport on Tri-Met under normal circumstances is generally a breeze. Not so yesterday. Here is my experience and some tips, from someone who spent 3.5 hours on slogging her way a few miles from inner NE Portland to PDX and then [...]

Sunday morning update: It’s now snowing - yes, for real. Follow the reports filed by the Twitter Storm Team!
This just in: There is a 100% chance of weather striking the Portland area in the next few days. We might all be buried under 50 FEET OF SNOW! Or maybe not. [...]

The current forecast is calling for colder and wetter weather hitting the PDX area by Sunday night.
“Who believes the weather forecast?”, you scoff. “Haven’t you lived in Oregon long enough to know that it’s frequently wrong, wrong, WRONG?”
Sadly, I believe the forecast. And here’s why.
My mini-vacation starts Monday night. [...]

Was anyone able to get a full night’s sleep last night with the storms? I was in insomniac heaves as it was, and just about to turn out the light and put down my copy of Richard III when it started blinking and booming. After that the dog panicked and it was futile to struggle [...]

Spotted yesterday in a garage off SE Morrison: A poor chap, drenched in sweat, splitting firewood, then loading it in a wheelbarrow and wheeling it across the blazing asphalt parking lot to be used in the wood-fired oven at Nostrana. Performing this Sisyphean task again and again.
I really feel for this guy. At least most [...]