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Snow-cation!

December 22, 2008 at 5:29 PM | by | Comments (4)

Hey, we just realized that all our bellyachin' about snow-caused drama on the East Coast is nothing compared to the drama at SEA, where ice and snow are so bad the airport ran out of deicing fluid. Presumably they couldn't airlift more in. (We'll be here all week!)

Portland International Airport, too, is having more snow than is pleasant, and we've already told you about the snowpocalypse in Upstate New York. United and Continental are riding out the storm by cuddling up together, while the people in Oymyakon continue shivering: Their hometown is apparently the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Forecast for this week? Minus 90 Fahrenheit!

Related Stories:
· Headaches Continue at Sea-Tac [Seattle P-I]
· Storms in Pacific Northwest Strand Passengers [The Mercury News]
· United, Continental Favor Living Together [Chicago Tribune]
· Temperatures Could Hit -70 C in Northeast Siberia [Novosti]
· Snow Days coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: North Bend Eric]

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I hear they're calling it

the Snowpocalypse. Oh Seattle, you and your crazy precipitation.
egw on December 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM #Permalink

THANK YOU!

Finally a site has found out something is going on over here! Southwest airline's deicer broke on Saturday and has pretty much canceled every flight coming and going to Portland. Hawaiian airlines flight is still waiting to be deiced and they were supposed to leave this morning. Southwest isn't even covering this on their page! I am supposed to leave for Pasadena on Wednesday, and I don't know if I'll make it out. Our roads have a foot of snow, which isn't terrible, but then you recall Portland is not at all prepared for this thing. Hopefully more coverage will be given to this so more information is brought out about what is happening in SEA-TAC and PDX! Thank you!
ddixonflight on December 22, 2008 at 8:07 PM #Permalink
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deicing the snowpocalypse

@ddixonflight: sounds pretty intolerable. Finally MSNBC has a little story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28352819/
travelina on December 22, 2008 at 10:55 PM #Permalink

It's a matter of PR

The Pacific Northwest doesn't get the outpouring of sympathy and hand-wringing that the Northeast does because they don't create enough drama out of it. We New Yorkers are under the impression that Seattle and Portland residents love bad weather, and are happiest when buried in snow and sleet. When it snows three inches in Brooklyn, however, the whole world will know how we suffer. Oh! très sincèrement je souffre! (Baudelaire)
Victor Ozols on December 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM #Permalink

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