[Boon]

On Dec 20, 4:50�pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote:
On Dec 20, 5:40�pm, Boon wrote:

I lived in Virginia during the Blizzard of '96. �42 inches in 24
hours, and a total of 60 inches in 48. �So I've dealt with this
before. But Portland is seriously freaking out right now.

Snow? What's that? We never get any in Minneapolis.

When I was in Basic Training at Ft. Sill there was frost on the grass
one morning. There was a guy from Hawaii who ran out and touched it.
"I've never seen snow before!" It did snow a couple of inches one day
and the whole post shut down. We loved it as PT was canceled.

Because Portland only gets a little bit of snow each year, they really
are having trouble adapting to a real storm. The problem is all of
the moisture here...it immediately turns to ice. It reminds me of
rainy seasons in LA. I'd tell someone that it rained 30 inches in a
single year, and they'd say oh, that's no big deal in our part of the
country. But when the ground is as dry as it is, 30 inches of rain
makes all of the mountains melt into the ocean.

I just looked outside...it's still coming down pretty hard. Close to
a foot, I'd imagine.

Boon