PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY CLOSED

[bleeb]

This means an extended 4 day weekend playas!!!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Dear Portland,

Wusses.

Love,

Canada

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Dear Portland,

Wusses.

Love,

Canada

hahah

 

[eshtog]

I go to PSU also!

 

[ViviTheMage]

you guys get like 2 inches?
-_-

 

[BrokenVisage]

I miss the days of my campus closing for HIGH WIND CONDITIONS or LIGHT SNOW FLURRIES

 

[bleeb]

There is about 1.5" where I live but a lot of snow everywhere.

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: eshtog
I got to PSU also!

no classes mang.

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: bleeb
There is about 1.5" where I live but a lot of snow everywhere.

Lets see...was up north for the weekend...woke up monday morning to this....

7 inches of snow...few hours later they got another 6 inches...i was gone by then since as you can see my taurus was already getting a little buried plus our second house is on a dirt road so no plows to clear snow meant a fun drive home...

1.5'' to close school......bahhhhh!

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: bleeb
There is about 1.5" where I live but a lot of snow everywhere.

Lets see...was up north for the weekend...woke up monday morning to this....

7 inches of snow...few hours later they got another 6 inches...i was gone by then since as you can see my taurus was already getting a little buried plus our second house is on a dirt road so no plows to clear snow meant a fun drive home...

1.5'' to close school......bahhhhh!

Where you at playa?

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: bleeb

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: bleeb
There is about 1.5" where I live but a lot of snow everywhere.

Lets see...was up north for the weekend...woke up monday morning to this....

7 inches of snow...few hours later they got another 6 inches...i was gone by then since as you can see my taurus was already getting a little buried plus our second house is on a dirt road so no plows to clear snow meant a fun drive home...

1.5'' to close school......bahhhhh!

Where you at playa?

That picture was taken about an hour north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Drove home to suburban detroit. Just ice down here and a dusting of snow

 

[wheresmybacon]

I'm in PDX too, but I have to work. =(

 

[S Freud]

I'm jealous, all we get down here in the Corvallis/Albany area is a two hour delay of the campus opening.

But I don't have class till 11 anyway


EDIT: W00T!!! Just checked again before I left for class and found out that my campus is closed today.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Dear Portland,

Wusses.

Love,

Canada

It's a known fact. What can you do? I'm watching the news right now and all the highways are blocked with accidents.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: S Freud
I'm jealous, all we get down here in the Corvallis/Albany area is a two hour delay of the campus opening.

But I don't have class till 11 anyway

EDIT: W00T!!! Just checked again before I left for class and found out that my campus is closed today.

 

[BigPoppa]

Yet another reason University of Montana > PSU...

 

[Bryophyte]

Those of us who *can* drive on snow and ice stay home in weather like this because of all those idiots who *can't* drive on snow and ice, but go out there and drive around and get in wrecks anyway.

 

[RossMAN]

I just came home from SW Portland and passed through downtown Portland. It's starting to melt but in east Portland it's a different story.

If the melting snow begins freezing, you'll probably have another snow day tomorrow.

 

[Juno]

rochester institute of technology (rochester, ny) was closed yesterday.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I just came home from SW Portland and passed through downtown Portland. It's starting to melt but in east Portland it's a different story.

If the melting snow begins freezing, you'll probably have another snow day tomorrow.

Supposed to get down to about 25 overnight on the Westside. It'll be a skating rink for the morning commute. :laugh:

 

[PlatinumGold]

hehehe

i graduated from Portland State University, Bachelors in Econ.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I just came home from SW Portland and passed through downtown Portland. It's starting to melt but in east Portland it's a different story.

If the melting snow begins freezing, you'll probably have another snow day tomorrow.

Supposed to get down to about 25 overnight on the Westside. It'll be a skating rink for the morning commute. :laugh:

Ugh not what I wanted to hear. I wish we'd get REAL SNOW (3'+) with a layer of 1" ice.

The entire Portland/Vancouver area would grind to a halt. Followed by non-stop local news coverage.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

I'm jealous of anything weather related. Michigan State University if I remember correctly has only closed school once in the past 40 years due to weather.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
you guys get like 2 inches?
-_-

It's not just "snow" and this isn't flatland. The roads are caked in ice and we have quite a few hills here. The cars driving on the roads don't grind the snow into slush, they compact it into ice, making things worse. Today's high was like 34 which means some of it started to melt. However, tonight's low is 29 which means all that water all over the roads is going to make for one damn giant frozen lake to drive on.

Then you throw in about 3 million people who drive on snow maybe 2 days every 2 or 3 years and you get catastrophe.

Don't assume that 2" of snow isn't dangerous, and don't laugh at people who are experts in driving in the rain. I'm sure southern-Californians would crap bricks if a little water hit the road, and I'm sure there would be accidents like crazy if typically-dry cities saw the rainfall that we get.

It's not funny, it's a goddamn nightmare on the roads with people zooming by at regular speeds, then try to make a slight curve in the road and end up nailing some pedestrian on the sidewalk or plant their car at the bottom of a ravine.

 

[S Freud]

Well school was delayed here at Oregon State University, Linn Benton CC was closed. Who knows what it will be like in a few hours though, I don't think they would close two days in a row, especially after the three day weekend and closed the 16th.