It seems like it's almost summer already. With a few exceptions, it has been a really mild winter. This is probably a very good thing for Portlanders. Every time the city gets more than 1 inch of snow, utter chaos erupts (except for the postal service, they are quick with chains and plow through anything).
Just last month there was a few inches of snow one evening and you would have thought a zombie apocalypse had started. Freeways were jammed, no cars could move, people were abandoning their cars on the road in search of shelter, the buses and light rail shut down, and so much more (the bikers seemed to not mind too much, though). Last year we got three feet of snow, and the following week the entire city shut down as Portland's one snow plow (and one? deicer at the airport) went into over time. The only people who could move were those on skis. That was dubbed snowpocalypse, which DC seemed to steal from us, although I'm sure we stole it from somewhere else.
Although there are videos like this around (you would think for being such a biking city, people would consider not using cars) that effectively illustrate the incompetence (and this is a so cal native here), the sole image that will last with me to represent Portland in snow was my observation of a Prius struggling to get up a hill with chains on its rear tires. It really drives home the character of Portland in so many ways.
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