2008 Snow Storm

I finally unearthed the pictures I took during our big snow storm before Christmas last year. We got almost two feet of snow in Tualatin with a bit of freezing rain in the middle that created an interesting snow-ice-snow sandwich. The whole area pretty much shut down (we get occasional snow here, but generally not in this quantity). Tualatin doesn't even own a snowplow (though they were very proud of their sanding plan). OMSI shut down for some of the days and on the days I did have to go to work, I took the bus. On the first day I rode it there was one hill we went up where another bus and some trucks hadn't made it. Everyone clapped for the driver at the top. After that day, the bus was on a snow route. We lost several limbs off our trees to the ice and an entire half of our neighbor's tree fell into our driveway. When it was finally time to head to Corvallis for the holiday, ODOT decided to close the I-5 so they could scrape ice off the Boone Bridge. It took about four hours to get to Corvallis on 99W (usually it takes about an hour and fifteen minutes on I-5 or just a little longer on 99W) driving in ice ruts that were several inches deep.

The snowy house:

James pulling giant pieces of ice off the car:

Moving some of the many branches that the ice felled from our trees:


Giant branch in the driveway:

Backyard chairs after the second wave:


More photos in the gallery...