Sunday, December 21, 2008

arctic blast 08


newsflash! it's frickin' freezing here in my unrecognizable city! look at this! outside my front door. the fountain is nearly covered in snow. i don't know how much it is but it's deep - last night going to my back door it was just about calf deep. here's the view from my back door...



it's high enough to come up over the steps of my apartment. the wind blew it up over but the steps are definitely covered. below see scully trying to decide if she's gonna leap that snow drift!

the answer? uh, no way! back to bed and in front of the heater!

we had a catering up on mt hood yesterday. what a treachorous drive to and fro. the chains on sharon and di's camry and rsq's mystery machine both blew and on the way back we had to abandon the van. the funny thing is we aren't sure where we left it. well, i know where it is just not what the place is called. all 6 of us; diane, tim, jake, pilar, jenn and myself piled into mother earth and she and diane got us home safe and sound as a pound. much love and thanks to di who was a serious trooper because driving that van sucked! because it was 12 degrees out the freezing rain kept causing the windsheild and wipers to ice up. by the time we got back to portland mother earth's passenger side wiper blade was, well, for lack of a better term, fucked. it was completely covered in ice with actual chunks of ice hanging off of it. the blade wasn't even touching the windsheild. this is portland, people. portland oregon. newschannel 8 is having a field day! they are on with ARCTIC BLAST WATCH 08 24/7. jeez. i can't even get oprah for god's sake. "they" say this could go on through next sunday. it's definitely going to be warming up but only into the 30's - not sure it will ever be warm enough for rain. here we are crammed into the backseat of mother earth [tim, pili, jenn, me]

stay warm kiddies!






1 comment:

  1. OMG! Sounds like quite the day! This weather is crazy! Now that I have my xmas shopping done, I would like just one work snow day out of this whole mess. Tomorrow is looking like my last opportunity. Not sure if you have seen our blog http://staceyanderic.blogspot.com/
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