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Snow days in Portland


This winter Portland area has been hit pretty hard with snow, ice and just cold cold weather.  Roads get so snow packed and iced over that it literally shuts all of the Portland area down.  Schools and businesses get closed because no one can drive on the roads without getting stuck.  Portland also does not own very many plows, so roads can take forever to clear up.  They also do not use salt in the whole state of Oregon because they think it will kill all of the trees and wild life.  In my opinion I think our safety on icy roads should win over trees and animals that potential could die from the salt. Many other states have used slat on their roads for years and they still have thriving wildernesses. I guess the slogan "Keep Portland Weird" is their for a reason.
Not going to lie...  It does get exciting when you here there is going to be a major storm coming that will shut down everything! Growing up in Idaho nothing ever shut down for a snow storm because we had the equipment to handle it, so when days like this happen in Portland it is kind of exciting.  Really scary for those who still have to drive in it, but a lot of fun when you just get to stay home and play in the snow.
Speaking of playing in the snow Liam has been loving these snow days.  We have especially loved that dad gets to hang out with us for the few days that work gets called off.  Todays winter storm was by far the best one I have seen sense living here so far.  On the news they said it has been record snow fall in a 24 hour period sense 1980.  The Governor even declared a state of emergency because of all the snow and how many cars and semis were getting stranded on the freeways for almost 24 hours! So ya its been a pretty good storm.
We took Liam sledding at the high school and he wasn't quit liking how deep the snow was.  The last storm we had it only snowed about and 1" so it wasn't so intimidating to Liam then, but now we have almost 7".  So needless to say we didn't last to long and headed back home.  After his nap though we took him back out and played in the piles of snow we made from shoveling the driveway.  He had a blast jumping and rolling around in it!  It was so fun to see him playing in it like a big kid.  He is growing up to fast.
I took a lot of pictures so that we can look back on them and compare this storm to other future storms we are bound to have here.  We have really been enjoying the snow here, but I do hope that the weather will warm up soon so that we are not stranded for to long.  The rest of the week looks pretty cold so we might have the snow for awhile.





























Here are pictures of the snow storm that hit a week before Christmas you can tell that it is not as much snow as we got today!

















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