Idahna, Oregon buried in snow; Mayor asks for emergency help

kgw.com Northwest News Channel 8 ^ | 01:11 PM PST on Sunday, February 3, 2008 | KGW and kgw.com Staff

[dragnet2]

Oh, and don't mean to rub it in, but just got back from a walk from outside, wearing a t-shirt and my flowers are all blooming, and suppose to get up to about 71 degrees today. A little chilly for me, but I'll try and hang in there. Visibility is unlimited looking towards the pacific.

I just grabbed some OJ out of the freezer...So I know what your going through.

[Inspectorette]

It’s “Keep Portland Weird”. And the fact that they’re proud of it says a lot.

[RikaStrom]

Check this out, now aren’t you glad you moved?

[RightWhale]

Ho hum. They will really appreciate it when it is a mile deep. The Ice Age never actually went away, just let up a little for a while.

[oldfart]

I lived a couple of years in Valdez and they’ve got snow control down to a science. Of course they always have the bay to dump the stuff in too, but every open area gets its share and some of the piles sit there until July or August before they melt.

[thackney]

Did you ever go to the drive in movie theater where they used the snowbank as a screen?

[justa-hairyape]

The Ice Age never actually went away, just let up a little for a while.

Over the past few 100's of thousands of years, our Earth has usually been in an Ice Age. Melting and/or moving snow/ice may eventually become a big time business in the near future. Hey, finally found a practical use for all our nuclear weapons :>

[Eye of Unk]

It was really cold for us this morning, -37F, I kept my two little girls home from school because even going to the bus stop was just too cold. And we have forecasted winds of 45mph today, even I stayed home. I found out my Silverado must have had a little moisture in the brake system because they felt extremely firm and I think the ABS was balking so I flushed out the whole system with two quarts of Valvoline Synthetic brake fluid early monday morning, feels much better when I drove home yesterday.

[RightWhale]

Schools were closed in Delta, not because of temperature or lack thereof, but because of Zamboni ice conditions on the road.

[Cold Heart]

I knew that:)

[Eye of Unk]

I’m just off the Parks Hiway 11 miles north of Wasilla but just before the Big Lake turnoff, my house sits on 8 acres and has a creek at the lower end, its usually around 5-10 degrees colder at my house than the local area because I sit low lying.

We had the Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs here last week doing an Alaska special, the dumbnuts were working myths of moose like whether to speed up and pass or slow down etc. I would have suggested they used the mannequin with the male appendage(tubing) to test the far north myth that in Arctic conditions like temps below -60 by the time your urine hits the ground or just your spit it becomes frozen.

[RightWhale]

We had Discovery Channel here last summer looking for Global Warming. Pure entertainment. Sent them up the road to see a house sinking into the permafrost.

[TASMANIANRED]

No place to go with the snow?

How about Klamath....They have c/o of drought for the past 10 years.

[TigersEye]

If Sassy wants some snow here she goes. ; )

[bray]

Roofs are collapsing in K Falls. This global warming is freezing us to death.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[justa-hairyape]

This Klamath Falls ?

[justa-hairyape]

Starting to lose large buildings in Colorado.

JERRY McBRIDE/Herald photos

Durango Fire & Rescue Authority Chief Dan Noonan, right, and La Plata County Office of Emergency Preparedness Director Butch Knowlton look over the debris Monday that shot out of building on Animas View Drive after it collapsed.

Snow brings building down
Series of storms leave mark on area rooftops
February 5, 2008
By Shane Benjamin and Karen Boush

Residents attempted to dig out from another winter storm Monday, but after weeks of accumulation, they were presented with a new challenge: clearing accumulated snow from rooftops.

A large metal structure that housed a skating rink in the 1960s collapsed Monday in the 500 block of Animas View Drive. The building, estimated to be 110 feet long and 80 feet wide, made a loud crash as it hit the ground. It was vacant, and no one was injured.

"Snow loading is a concern," said Dave Abercrombie, spokesman for the Durango Fire & Rescue Authority. "Some of the structures are on the edge (of collapse)."

The avalanche danger in the northern and southern San Juans was listed as "extreme." Heavy snow with high winds loaded all aspects and elevations, making natural and triggered avalanches certain, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Backcountry travel was discouraged.

[justa-hairyape]

Images of structure collapse in New Mexico on this new thread.

2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years

[shotgun]

As the PW Director here in a city of 15,000 in eastern WA, we budget approximately 15,000 annually for snow removal. this pays for liquid de-icers along with a seasons (December to February) salt and sand mixture. Since we have had a series of pretty mild winters we were able to stockpile 3 years of salt and sand. If you have a mild ending to winter (January to February) then you can spend all of your budget at the end of the year (beginning of winter) and maximize your budget going into the heart of winter in the new year...

We have had two significant snowfalls this winter with a total snow fall of about 13 inches (5 and 8 inches) outside of overtime for my 6 man crew for the first night of the event (it always happens at night) the crews then adjust to a night time schedule to eliminate more overtime (paid out as comp time) which allows for more efficient snow removal operations without the traffic.

Historically here in the Yakima Valley/Lower Columbia Basin most cities just wait and rely on the warm chinook winds which blow about 3-7 days after the snowfall and as such don’t budget a lot for snow removal. My point is that if the crews weren’t plowing snow they would be paid for doing their normal maintenance jobs. The only increase I have seen in my budget was an additional 70 gallons in fuel so that my street could be open and business could operate to generate sales tax revenues...

The big difference with this town in Oregon is they are buried and require specialized equipment to dig out...

[Stonewall Jackson]

Back in the late-60's and early-70's, when my family first moved to Kentucky, there were a number of winters like this. There would be a whole lot of moisture coming in, with some years getting a lot of rain and others getting tons of snow.

So far this year, we haven't been hit by a lot of snow, but they are currently tracking a massive tornado supercell that is making a beeline straight for Louisville. It pounded Christian, Ohio, Breckenridge, Grayson, and Meade Counties and is now clipping the northern edge of Hardin County (ie Fort Knox) before heading up into Louisville. There are reports of multiple tornadoes associated with this cell and of homes and other structures suffering massive damage all along the storm's path.

There is another squall line that is coming in that is supposed to hit us sometime around 2 in the morning, but they don't yet know exactly where it will be heading.