The traffic has gotten worse, for sure, but I’d think nearly all big cities have experienced increases in traffic over the last decade. Portland is just dumb because the only major freeways are on opposite sides of the city and they’re mostly 2- or 3-lane. There are no expressways, no HOV and a 50 mph speed limit.…

PDX traffic and cost of living doesn’t have shit on both California and Seattle. That’s just an excuse the locals use to keep foreigners out

He forgot to say ‘make it attractive and/or normal looking’

Regular snow, sure. Try climbing an icy hill without AWD or 4x4. Last week in Portland, OR it snowed like a half inch, then melted and re-froze. The only way we got around was a Land Rover Discover II with studded tires (once you get over the initial butt clench it’s actually quite fun).

Yeah I’m pretty sure that’s not correct. Spinning the wheels breaks your static friction, a force which is always greater than the kinetic friction produced by the wheels just simply spinning on top of snow. Your tire isn’t ‘biting’ anything because it’s moving too damn fast. If you get through the snow to concrete,…

If he doesn’t have heat chances are nobody else does. I’d stay sheltered - hopefully he has a generator, fuel and lots of food (the only upside is that he can just leave the door to his fridge open and it’ll stay cold)

I did NOT know those existed!

Our 2005 Outback has wiper blade defrosters (see picture). If this technology was around in ‘05, I wonder why more cars don’t have it. It’s brilliantly simple - even more so than side mirror defrosters (which my ‘97 Volvo had!). Although I guess it makes your windshield much more expensive to replace.

When we were younger and dumber we used to purposely swing the chairs. Then the liftees and ski patrol would yell and threaten to take our passes, so we stopped. I also got smarter.

The chair closest to them (on the downhill line, empty) isn’t swinging because it’s right next to the tower (no slack in the line) and there’s no weight in it. The chair behind them on the same uphill line is also swinging, albeit not quite as violently because it doesn’t look like there’s anybody in it. Weight in the…

Ah yes, I forgot about that. I guess the blue I’m used to seeing for water is a very light blue (then again 99% of the water containers I’ve used/seen are plastic and usually clear or a see-through blue tint).

The cans should also be color coded - it’s usually red for gasoline, yellow for diesel and tan/black/blue for water.

For God’s sake man move somewhere warmer

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Vancouver is a solid 5 miles from the nearest OR neighborhood across the Interstate bridge, unless you live in Jantzen beach, in which case I’m sorry (and it’s still 3 miles). Traffic on the Interstate bridge is terrible nearly all hours of the day, AND gas is about 10%…

Ah, thanks I missed that. I actually drove from SF to Portland this past week - 10.5 hours in the car and only crossed one state line.

Because it’s targeted at towns under 40k people, my guess would be the vast majority of those people were born in that town, will die in that town and rarely (if ever) leave the state.

If you have a Chase Sapphire you also get National Emerald Club for free

This x1000. I grew up in Portland. It snows and sticks maybe once every five years - everybody is just stressed because last year was awful. When it does snow, there aren’t enough plows to keep the roads going, and it’s so wet and heavy it often ices over.

I feel like citing a Reddit user is like using Wikipedia on your college essay. Yeah, we all do it, but maybe you shouldn’t readily admit that.

You have FOUR 90s Chrysler minivans? I think we finally found someone with an obsession that rivals David Tracy’s