If there is freezing rain, as predicted, somebody's going to lose power. I hope it isn't me. I am south of town, so I am further from the Columbia R gorge, which is the main perp in freezing rain events, so I have good hopes for keeping my power tonight. Good luck.
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually the max stays up unless there's enough ice to freeze over the lines, iirc.
xpost, guess i'm wrong on that one.
― Clay, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm close enough to downtown that I figure if I do lose power (which I never have at this apartment) it will be restored quickly. I doubt the city likes downtown going off-grid even briefly.
― Clay, Sunday, 21 December 2008 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
good news everyone! the buick can get around in this mess!
so after testing the car up & down the street a bit, i found my iphone power cable. Both main and black & decker auxiliary batteries for the iphone are now at full charge, so i'm set.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The ice has arrived. We lost power for about 5 hours this a.m. It came back about 30 minutes ago. It could go out again pretty easily. Luckily our house has a fireplace and we have wood. Because we camp a lot, we have all the stuff we need to camp out at the house, if necessary. We've done it before. We even have a kerosene heater.
I hope kingfish didn't stay out too late last night.
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
crashed at friends house after latenight boardgame and Bill & Ted party, took bus home since max train never came.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Good day for a walk. Bad day for motorcycling. Stay warm.
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
kgw is saying another 1/3rd inch of ice today then 4-6 more inches of snow tonight. City's basically a wasteland until Saturday. The shit Greyhound is pulling with their cancellations/way they're treating the people they've stranded is totally disgusting.
My girlfriend was supposed to fly out to Chicago to see her family today. Flight was canceled, and they rescheduled her tomorrow... in Seattle. With no trains available and Greyhound shut down. A++, everybody.
The good spirits of Portlanders helping one another out has been uplifting, though. Hope you're all warm and well.
― Clay, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Seattle just cancelled a whole bunch of flights right now. I imagine PDX would be in BETTER shape. SeaTac is not a happy place right now.
― "Sustainability Sucks" T's Ahoy For Urban Outfitters Bootches (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 22 December 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Alberta St Pub is still open, so i'm heading there on foot to get warm and read a bit.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
daaaamn and I was feeling sorry for myself cuz it is summer solstice here in Peru, in the upper 50's at night and pouring down rain. I will now feel better. I imagine Eugene is almost as fucked as PDX. I had read in the Farmer's Almanac that it would be a cold winter, but this is almost unheard of.
― sleeve, Monday, 22 December 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn this place is jumpin'
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Eugene isn't bad. 40 and raining. Blazers had to take a bus down there to make it to Denver for tomorrow's game.
― Clay, Monday, 22 December 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Hope the airport's running normally tomorrow; i need to fly to knoxville.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Made it to work with no problem. The Buick can conquer all this shit!
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
aaaaand now my flight's been cancelled! hooray!
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
You all think Lake Oswego is big enough to get the "Lake Effect"?
We've got more than a foot of snow piled up here. Another 4 inches fell on top of yesterday's ice. Yesterday's ice was on top of about 8-9 inches of accumulated snow. All the shrubs in the yard are kissing their toes. But I still have electricity, and a cellar full of food, so I am golden.
― Aimless, Monday, 22 December 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Hooray! I made it home! Found out that the chains I had borrowed were too big and i needed a push to get out of the snowbank I was parked in, but it worked!
now i need ot figure out how the hell i'm going to fly out of here.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 22 December 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I was pretty gung ho about driving in this snow until 2 days ago when I very nearly didn't make it up the hill between SE Burnside and Stark on 60th.
I had plenty of momentum but the knob in front of me hesitated after the light turned green and I slid backwards 3 times. Finally put some Opeth on the Vanagon's stereo and made it to the apex on my 4th try.
Since then, I've just been cooking and building fires and staying inside.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 22 December 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, flight was canceled, am now waitlisted for next flight later in morning. This ought to be interesting, but i'm bringing my laptop and iphone(w/ aux batteries), so i should be set.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 06:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Woo-hoo! Made my flight and the one afterwards(standing around by the desk = the most literal "standby" i've done in a while). Managed to escape the city and am here at parents house in Knoxville. Whee.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it snowing? Is it raining? Any of you drunks near Alberta st tonight?
I'm at the Nest.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Snowing in the Seattle area!
― The Reverend, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
looks like we got maybe a quarter/half inch or so then it turned to rain.
― Clay, Monday, 5 January 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
And back to snow
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2009 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Twitch/Stirmonster from Optimo in Portland tonight just FYI
Tuesday January 20th - Portland Holocene (Twitch)
― jed_, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
OH SHIT! Any Seattle show?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
'fraid not bld - LA tomorrow (which i was going to spam too but i don't know if there are LA regional threads or how to look for one).
― jed_, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
At bagdad for new bsg ep tonight. They actually let people in early tonight.
― kingfish, Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Are they doing that every week now?
― en i see kay, Saturday, 24 January 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, every week til the show ends in mid-March
― kingfish, Saturday, 24 January 2009 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link
so, uh, anybody know anybody who needs a place to live? The other two rooms in my house in the King neighborhood in close-in NE are empty, and landlord is getting increasingly desperate to fill them. Here's the CL advert:
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/roo/1005438160.html
― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Seems like those rooms should be easy to fill. I passed the link along to someone I know...
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
carpetted
― tehresa, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently only idiot space cases have been applying, so there ya go.
xp yeah, he did that a coupla times
― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
In the 'If it bleeds, it leads' department, check the frontpage of today's Oregonian
two words in dark black: 'BLOOD EVERYWHERE'
― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Tron is on the big screen on saturday night at the Bagdad at 11.
http://mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=9&id=177&eventid=68065
http://wweek.com/photos/3512/large/12140.jpg
We Fight for the Users(MOVIES) Listen up, Hollywood: Movies shouldn’t cost $10. We don’t care if they have fancy computer graphics. We want what all Americans want—cheap thrills and beer. The Bagdad Theater agrees, and is hosting a weekend with the greatest computer-graphics movie ever: Tron. Screenings are $3, but if you attend the 11 pm show on Saturday, Jan. 31, and say the phrase “Copy Blue Leader,” you’ll get in for $1.50. Same deal with Double Indemnity on the Bagdad’s $2 Tuesdays—mention WW on Tuesday, Feb. 24, and get in for a buck. Oh, and don’t forget that weekend matinees at the Mission (currently showing that new Bond thing) are always $1. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, 223-4527.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Weather!
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah great, i get to drive up Bull Mountain today.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
pls to provide a list of things to do in portland that are essential for getting a feel of life in the city.
thankig u!
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
tza, since you love hoops and I have the hookup I can probably get you tix to a blazers game when you're in town, if you'd be interested in that sort of thing.
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
^_^
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
CLASS ACT
When are you going to visit? If you time it right, you can be here during the next Urban Iditarod
― kingfish, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
hit me up on the AIM at 'Senor Funkapus', I should be able to provide plenty
― kingfish, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Shucks it's no thing, really. Just hit me up on webmail or somethin' before you head out this way.
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Smoke weed and go to Powell's.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, kingfish, i will miss the iditarod. will bein seattle 3/19-3/25, not sure which day(s) i will go to portland yet (definitely not 20 or 21 though).
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Monday, March 23: Philadelphia 76rs @ Portland Trail Blazers
― Clay, Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Zompire filmfest is May 9-10th.
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link