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Bagdad
Bagdad Snow
SE Hawthorne St.
Portland, Oregon 97214
Taken on December 22, 2008
Photo By General Malaise

Well, since almost all Portland events and parties are canceled, here is info on the only Portland event right now that is still on…and on:

12-23-2008—————————

7:00ish Cant's stop the Blaze show!

6:00ish Trimet update and it is not pretty once again.

6:00 Uploaded Portland Snow Day pictures to Flickr from our SnowpocalypseMobile adventures the last days here.

5:30ish Insane lines at Hollywood Fred Meyers. @Blizzle has a pic here.

5:00ish From KGW's @TheSquare on Twitter: I-5 southbound is a huge mess, especially around I-205. Don't even think about driving it for at least an hour.

12:30PM YEAH! Strike one for people versus Snowpocalypse! Grindhouse Film Festival's Silent Night, Deadly Night has been rescheduled for Christmas Eve. What's that you say? More snow that day? Oh….

12-22-2008————————-

8:50ish We are taking the SnowpocalypseMobile out now. You can follow future updates on twitter (twitter.com/pdxpipeline)

8:45 Gresham has called in the National Guard. Wow. (Seattle PI story here) (Seattle PI most sensational headline of the week here)

8:30 Trimet releases map of Snow service tonight (PDF here) and puts out new alert that aint pretty. Read the rest of this entry »

Portland Snow Day Part 4: Snowmageddon, Son of Snowpocalypse

Snow Gnome
Snow Gnome
Portland, Oregon
Taken on December 18, 2008
Photo By VisioLuxus

Oh, the weather outside is frightful. This picture is from 4 days ago. Take a moment of silence now. That gnome is now gone. It might be time to pray like our NW siblings in Seattle.

Mike Vogel has video of the Mad Max conditions that have gripped Sellwood: Cross country skiers, snowshoers, frozen bikesFROZEN BIKES! Only the mighty Bakfiets seems immune to the destructive power of Snowmageddon.

Brewcaster also has Snowmageddon video complete with apocalyptic music.

Oregonian's meteorologist Dave Sweeney has apparently gone mad with snow fever.
Snow Fever Madness symptoms: this sweater. Read the rest of this entry »