Took me 3.5 hours to get from downtown to my home around 120th and SE Holgate. EVERYWHERE was locked and stopped, just a reminder, during a major earthquake, no one is going anywhere.
Oh mercy, don't even mention the thought of a bad earthquake happening right now, that would be an absolute catastrophe for us all!... Glad you made it home safe & sound for sure!.... 👍🏻👍🏻
If there's an earthquake ... all the bridges will be down ... slopes failing ... volcanic ash raining down ... tsunamis washing away the coast ... a little snow won't be a problem ...
I'm a home everyday truck driver and went north at about 4pm, heavy traffic. Before starting back down (would have been in Portland around 9pm) I decided to just stay up here. Looks like it was the right decision.
Just stay home. “I can’t, I have to get to work”. Just stay home. “I can’t, I have to buy groceries”. Just stay home. “I have an engagement”. “Oh no, I just crashed my car in the snow and I can’t go anywhere”!
Got to work in downtown at 8:30AM yesterday from Troutdale, purely sleet when I left. Thankfully I have a caring boss who sent me home by 11:30AM and even then I barely made it to my house. Cars were already getting stuck/crashes everywhere. I am so lucky, I would have likely had to get a hotel room downtown.
I didn’t prepare for the snow cause on the weather report they said snow above 500 feet. Last time they said it was going to snow and it didn’t..don’t trust the forecasts anymore. I do realize it’s harder to forecast in Portland, but I still rather trust looking out my windows in the morning…
i dont listen to the news anymore because of what you say, i look at the radar and guess, also i also watch other youtuber on youtube who report these weather not the news station, hence why im always prepare on these winter storm, yet at times my estimate on the weather isnt always correct
I moved from Virginia. This state and Pennsylvania is the worst state I have ever seen for road maintenance. I lived in Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah mountains it snows all winter and the roads are clear the next damn day. The taxes that you pay here, are just unacceptable and RIDICULOUS! I paid $300 for plates, y'all can't pretreat or salt the damn roads REALLY. What are you doing with our tax dollars? I lived in Washington State for seven years, but this state absolutely does NOTHING!
Yeah, since it happens so infrequently, it isn't worth the money needed to buy all of the equipment, house it and maintain it. It's a way of life in PA, but it snows a lot there, unlike here. And your tax dollars go to the druggies and homeless because that's what Oregonians like.
We have lived here overlooking I5 by the "infamous" Terwillegar Curve for 32 years. We can look right down the fwy. No other traffic accident or weather condition has ever created such a mess in that time.
Visiting a friend last night, we had a front row seat, overlooking 405 & that one off ramp from 405 onto 26. The ramp off of 13th & Clay was atleast moving, but that one off 405, cars kept getting stuck til nobody was going ANYWHERE! Just lots of emergency blinkers & lights til most folks prolly abandoned their cars altogether! Even now, there is 1 car & 1 truck, with lights still blinking. Then, on 405N - nobody was moving for hours on end, NOBODY!! Even now, only a few here & there. I'm just glad i got here when i did!! Snow is pretty - hangin on the trees tho!!
Just a piece of advice for people who do not normally drive in these conditions. When the weather is like this, do not take the freeway. If you're already on the freeway, stay in the right lane so you can take the next exit before things back up too far.
@@russcrawford3310 Agreed. It also seems like ODOT didn't know how to handle the snow. And in weather like this, snow plows have to be out several hours before any forecasted weather events. They have to pre-treat the roads, and then they have to start plowing right from the onset. You can't wait until the snowfall is done and then start trying to plow the streets out.
@@marywatkins9438 - ODOT is great with snow ... East of the Cascades ... westside, it's the people ... half inch of snow on the roads and everybody speeds up and drives closer together ...
Okay y’all update. I got home. I live in overlook neighborhood near swan island and work in NW Industrial. Average commute 12 mins. I left work at 5:20 and finally got home at 2:28 over 9 hours later. We helped everyone we could on the ramp. Absolutely no help from the city. Complete BS.
I was stuck on that freeway, driving a TriMet bus full of passengers. The Terwilliger curves were an absolute nightmare. Why ODOT didn't at least prepare that single mile stretch of the I-5, I have absolutely no idea. We sat for more than 8 hours in total.
@@U.s-epa if there is no snow on the ground at the time the buses are sent out, how do you just cancel them mid-route, say, when they’re already on the freeway transporting passengers?
In 92 we had a snow event. I took TriMet to work down Barbur instead of driving. It was one of the old articulated buses. We had a Pillipino driver who had never seen snow in person. His solution was to put the petal to the metal and burn through the ice. We actually got there but several passengers got off along the way to take the next bus.
I know alot of people, whos employers did not let them go home early and instead kept them till closing around 6. My sister in law got stuck, had to leave her car and walk to her uncles house. Employers need to do better
And now it's Portland's turn... most of us all over the US encounter these conditions at least once. I was an Oregonian for 24 years until I moved in 1987. Now I live in the deep south. We in the southeast had this happen in 2014 EXCEPT it started as freezing rain which turned to ice the minute it landed on any object. We HAD NO WARNING. Our unexpected ice storm started after everyone got to work and at 11:00 a.m. everyone in the city was released by their employers to go home - everyone at once and what an unnecessary mess that added to the icy roads. Most people lived 10-30 miles out of the city. Few people made it home that day with many spending the night at their place of employment or even spending the 17 degree night in their cars stuck on the roads. Some on the roads got out of their cars and tried walking to the nearest open business where they spent the nights sleeping on the floors. The city had no snow plows, no trucks to spread de-icing material - the city had sent ALL of those south where the ice storm was supposed to have hit. Having lived in upstate New York and Wisconsin I knew a little bit how to drive in this weather. Hours later after most the cars were stuck mainly on the sides of the roads, I decided to try to drive home. While driving, I rolled down the driver's window, stuck my arm out and frequently sprayed the windshield with de-icer as freezing rain hit and turned to ice. I drove VERY slowly, never gunning the engine, never stopping, continually moving slowly, I made it home. So grateful to the Lord for helping me make it. I passed numerous 4 x 4 pickups with their young stud drivers spinning out and stuck on the side of the road... because you have a 4 x 4 doesn't mean you can drive in snow and ice...unless you know how.
With hundreds of millions being thrown away on the homeless every year and it only getting worse you think they could spare a few million and make the roads safe and passable for the taxpaying people. It is comical how unprepared the cities in the Portland metro are for weather like this.
That's the west coast for you in Oregon and Washington. Lots of rain and moisture and then the freeze arrives and everything comes to a standstill. I know. Lived on the west coast for 50 years. No thanks.
I hate the fact that these truckers, who probably have enough experience to know better, are stuck because they don't have bosses who would believe/support them. They have to keep their jobs. The others? Consequences to your actions, baby!
Oregen isn't equip to deal with such a weather I guess. In cities where snow is a regular annual occurrence, this isn't a big deal. However, places such as Dallas or Charlotte where snow isn't a regular thing, the city essentially shuts down.
But it doesn’t look that BAD from where they are filming. Yes I see ice but maybe it’s the big rigs sliding and a few stalled vehicles. My husband was due home 5-6hrs ago! Now I’m hearing people have been stuck since 4:30pm and it’s 3:03am!!! And he’s just 3 exits down!!!
Here’s how to have a bathroom stop when desperate, open the back side door, facing away from traffic, open the front door same side, now quietly squat on the fender and nobody will notice. 😂 it does work. Especially if it’s dark. This is for a lady obviously.
Cheat. Now is 9am 02/23, this video uploadd 9hours ago, I went back smoothly from 7-8pm. If some driver was stuck from 5pm yesterday for 7 hours, that doesn't make sense.
I never get why this shit happens every time there is a snow situation anywhere in the car. What do these clowns think? If they stay home then freaking stay home.
Took me 3.5 hours to get from downtown to my home around 120th and SE Holgate. EVERYWHERE was locked and stopped, just a reminder, during a major earthquake, no one is going anywhere.
Oh mercy, don't even mention the thought of a bad earthquake happening right now, that would be an absolute catastrophe for us all!... Glad you made it home safe & sound for sure!.... 👍🏻👍🏻
took me 5 hours
If there's an earthquake ... all the bridges will be down ... slopes failing ... volcanic ash raining down ... tsunamis washing away the coast ... a little snow won't be a problem ...
I'm a home everyday truck driver and went north at about 4pm, heavy traffic. Before starting back down (would have been in Portland around 9pm) I decided to just stay up here. Looks like it was the right decision.
Leave home. Be part of the problem.
Stay home. Be part of the solution.
Just stay home.
“I can’t, I have to get to work”.
Just stay home.
“I can’t, I have to buy groceries”.
Just stay home.
“I have an engagement”.
“Oh no, I just crashed my car in the snow and I can’t go anywhere”!
Got to work in downtown at 8:30AM yesterday from Troutdale, purely sleet when I left. Thankfully I have a caring boss who sent me home by 11:30AM and even then I barely made it to my house. Cars were already getting stuck/crashes everywhere. I am so lucky, I would have likely had to get a hotel room downtown.
Let’s see how well this will fair with all cars being electric 🤣
That should be interesting to find out.
When Police tells you to stay home because of big storm. Stay home!
Took me 2.5 hours from downtown to Lake Oswego 🥵
I didn’t prepare for the snow cause on the weather report they said snow above 500 feet. Last time they said it was going to snow and it didn’t..don’t trust the forecasts anymore. I do realize it’s harder to forecast in Portland, but I still rather trust looking out my windows in the morning…
i dont listen to the news anymore because of what you say, i look at the radar and guess, also i also watch other youtuber on youtube who report these weather not the news station, hence why im always prepare on these winter storm, yet at times my estimate on the weather isnt always correct
I keep the chains in my trunk.
I moved from Virginia. This state and Pennsylvania is the worst state I have ever seen for road maintenance. I lived in Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah mountains it snows all winter and the roads are clear the next damn day. The taxes that you pay here, are just unacceptable and RIDICULOUS! I paid $300 for plates, y'all can't pretreat or salt the damn roads REALLY. What are you doing with our tax dollars? I lived in Washington State for seven years, but this state absolutely does NOTHING!
Yeah, since it happens so infrequently, it isn't worth the money needed to buy all of the equipment, house it and maintain it. It's a way of life in PA, but it snows a lot there, unlike here. And your tax dollars go to the druggies and homeless because that's what Oregonians like.
We have lived here overlooking I5 by the "infamous" Terwillegar Curve for 32 years. We can look right down the fwy. No other traffic accident or weather condition has ever created such a mess in that time.
Visiting a friend last night, we had a front row seat, overlooking 405 & that one off ramp from 405 onto 26. The ramp off of 13th & Clay was atleast moving, but that one off 405, cars kept getting stuck til nobody was going ANYWHERE! Just lots of emergency blinkers & lights til most folks prolly abandoned their cars altogether! Even now, there is 1 car & 1 truck, with lights still blinking. Then, on 405N - nobody was moving for hours on end, NOBODY!! Even now, only a few here & there. I'm just glad i got here when i did!! Snow is pretty - hangin on the trees tho!!
slow day at the office........love it ...except for the lack of rest area. thank you ...K.....and kgw
Just a piece of advice for people who do not normally drive in these conditions. When the weather is like this, do not take the freeway. If you're already on the freeway, stay in the right lane so you can take the next exit before things back up too far.
I freely admit to being a terrible driver on snow and ice ... so I don't ... watch the forecasts and stay home if there's a threat ...
@@russcrawford3310 Agreed. It also seems like ODOT didn't know how to handle the snow. And in weather like this, snow plows have to be out several hours before any forecasted weather events. They have to pre-treat the roads, and then they have to start plowing right from the onset. You can't wait until the snowfall is done and then start trying to plow the streets out.
@@marywatkins9438 - ODOT is great with snow ... East of the Cascades ... westside, it's the people ... half inch of snow on the roads and everybody speeds up and drives closer together ...
May i suggest there could be the date /hr showing somewhere on the screen, so the viewers know when was it the clip show? Thank you very much.
I am still stuck on the I405 I5 moda center merger. If you find me tell the world my story. Tell the world screw Ted wheeler….
Okay y’all update. I got home. I live in overlook neighborhood near swan island and work in NW Industrial. Average commute 12 mins. I left work at 5:20 and finally got home at 2:28 over 9 hours later. We helped everyone we could on the ramp. Absolutely no help from the city. Complete BS.
@@LeroyBickerstaff-IV at least you're home safe. Bad snow storm weather quite slippery and crashes are very common.
I was stuck on that freeway, driving a TriMet bus full of passengers. The Terwilliger curves were an absolute nightmare. Why ODOT didn't at least prepare that single mile stretch of the I-5, I have absolutely no idea. We sat for more than 8 hours in total.
Buses are an absolute joke in the snow and should be cancelled due to causing dangerous road conditions.
@@U.s-epa if there is no snow on the ground at the time the buses are sent out, how do you just cancel them mid-route, say, when they’re already on the freeway transporting passengers?
In 92 we had a snow event. I took TriMet to work down Barbur instead of driving. It was one of the old articulated buses. We had a Pillipino driver who had never seen snow in person. His solution was to put the petal to the metal and burn through the ice. We actually got there but several passengers got off along the way to take the next bus.
I know alot of people, whos employers did not let them go home early and instead kept them till closing around 6. My sister in law got stuck, had to leave her car and walk to her uncles house. Employers need to do better
To most employers the sad fact is that we are just an employee with an employee number
Or you could use appropriate 4wd vehicle and be prepared.
Portland’s a disaster with 1/4 inch of snow. SMH
Stuck just north on a greyhound bus.....
And now it's Portland's turn... most of us all over the US encounter these conditions at least once. I was an Oregonian for 24 years until I moved in 1987. Now I live in the deep south. We in the southeast had this happen in 2014 EXCEPT it started as freezing rain which turned to ice the minute it landed on any object. We HAD NO WARNING. Our unexpected ice storm started after everyone got to work and at 11:00 a.m. everyone in the city was released by their employers to go home - everyone at once and what an unnecessary mess that added to the icy roads. Most people lived 10-30 miles out of the city. Few people made it home that day with many spending the night at their place of employment or even spending the 17 degree night in their cars stuck on the roads. Some on the roads got out of their cars and tried walking to the nearest open business where they spent the nights sleeping on the floors. The city had no snow plows, no trucks to spread de-icing material - the city had sent ALL of those south where the ice storm was supposed to have hit. Having lived in upstate New York and Wisconsin I knew a little bit how to drive in this weather. Hours later after most the cars were stuck mainly on the sides of the roads, I decided to try to drive home. While driving, I rolled down the driver's window, stuck my arm out and frequently sprayed the windshield with de-icer as freezing rain hit and turned to ice. I drove VERY slowly, never gunning the engine, never stopping, continually moving slowly, I made it home. So grateful to the Lord for helping me make it. I passed numerous 4 x 4 pickups with their young stud drivers spinning out and stuck on the side of the road... because you have a 4 x 4 doesn't mean you can drive in snow and ice...unless you know how.
Thank God I live near Hillsboro.
With hundreds of millions being thrown away on the homeless every year and it only getting worse you think they could spare a few million and make the roads safe and passable for the taxpaying people. It is comical how unprepared the cities in the Portland metro are for weather like this.
Sure, spend a few hundred million on snow plows, it won't snow for ten years.
That's the west coast for you in Oregon and Washington. Lots of rain and moisture and then the freeze arrives and everything comes to a standstill. I know. Lived on the west coast for 50 years. No thanks.
I hate the fact that these truckers, who probably have enough experience to know better, are stuck because they don't have bosses who would believe/support them. They have to keep their jobs. The others? Consequences to your actions, baby!
Half of it is truckers that are too lazy to chain up until they are already stuck.
Odot trucks could have helped shovel the roads but just drove around
When this happens stay home if you can. Don't go to work. If your boss does not understand then shame on them.
Oregen isn't equip to deal with such a weather I guess. In cities where snow is a regular annual occurrence, this isn't a big deal. However, places such as Dallas or Charlotte where snow isn't a regular thing, the city essentially shuts down.
But it doesn’t look that BAD from where they are filming. Yes I see ice but maybe it’s the big rigs sliding and a few stalled vehicles. My husband was due home 5-6hrs ago! Now I’m hearing people have been stuck since 4:30pm and it’s 3:03am!!! And he’s just 3 exits down!!!
So are they still on I-5?
Glad I made it home early 😁
Portland is not new to snow. They don't prepare or have a good when this happens because this is not the first time they have gotten snow.
Bathroom break, holding it for 7 hours, no way.
So happy that I am not a Tri-Met driver any more.
Here’s how to have a bathroom stop when desperate, open the back side door, facing away from traffic, open the front door same side, now quietly squat on the fender and nobody will notice. 😂 it does work. Especially if it’s dark. This is for a lady obviously.
Cheat. Now is 9am 02/23, this video uploadd 9hours ago, I went back smoothly from 7-8pm. If some driver was stuck from 5pm yesterday for 7 hours, that doesn't make sense.
Odot just needs more of our money
ODOT has a $5.1 billion budget.
That's your taxes hard at work. Or not
People knew the snow was coming. They could have stayed home. No job is worth it.
Portlanders would not survive in eastern wash 😂 this is nothing compared to their winter snow
Non yet
Don’t people check the weather before starting off on their journey?
If everyones parked WHY AREN'T THEY CHAINING UP? So stupid.
Because people were dumb and not prepared for it
😆 this is what you get for driving a prius! 😆 🤣 😂
Just stay home!!!!!!
It would be great if you're stuck on the highway with a super hot chick in your car.
😅🤣😂 The Kotek Kid has it covered.
How about Joe Biden, Or Hillary's emails too while your at it?
Think electric cars are a good idea in cases like this
Yes california this is what winter looks like, Get over it!
Is all this bad weather a result of global warming??
No, it is a result of your ignorance..
I pee a lot. Where were they peeing!?
Good luck with your EV car.
What are all the progressive Tesla drivers doing, as their batteries go dead and their heaters cease heating?
😆👍🏻
Repent
I never get why this shit happens every time there is a snow situation anywhere in the car. What do these clowns think? If they stay home then freaking stay home.
Burning Man exodus...