Posted: 11/3/2010 8:44:45 PM EDT
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Any of you guys alive and living in portland during the winter of 1996?
How bad was it? NOAA says that this winter will be similar |
| Loved it ! I hit a drunk driver and put him up into some poor persons front yard . He got out and ran left his girl in the car. It would have been my fault because he pulled out in front of me from the side of the road. My big blazer killed his car. The poor girl in the car was all messed up. I had all four wheels chained . Giant winch bumper. He ate shit a couple times while running down the street ?LMFAO |
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the flooding was the suxxors. +1 on the snow though. I make a point to go out and drive in it. Most fun I have all year till the cops catch me  .Having grown up in Michigan weather (You know, where snow falls many times between October and March, up to knee deep in my neck of the state), if it snowed here in Oregon, I could outrun a cop car with full chains on it in my unchained car. I was having a blast last winter in my Caprice. I got some fresh tires on it before the winter hit, and during our one snow fall I was enjoying the roads. Wide open, and empty! As far as 1996 was concerned, that was 11 years before I ever saw Oregon for the first time. |
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Was 96 the year that the Willamette flooded so much that a great deal of Oregon city was under water? I remember going to Oregon City and seeing Tony's fish market full of water almost to the top of the front door...but was that 96?
During that flood alot of house boats, and boat houses were floated so high on the water that they floated off the top of the telephone pole like anchor posts. If you look at the anchor posts now, it is astounding to think that the river was actually 35-50 feet higher than it is now. Even in downtown Portland the river was above the top of the Willamette sea wall in a number of places. |
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I was living on my sailboat on Hayden Island at the time. The floods where a tad stressful as I was watching the tops of the pilings that held the docks in place rise to just inches from everything floating away. Lots of crazy shit floating down the river. Gigantic Doug firs roots and all, docks, boats and house boats floating away. Zipping through parking lots on the Zodiac was a blast.
Winter was horrible. Mostly the ice storms. Everything in the marina was encased in ice. Ducks and geese frozen in the water. It was great to watch them try to crash land on the ice though. |
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96 was a bad year for rain and snow. If your asking about just a bad snow event, check out the stats and figures on 68, it was much worse.. The Kmart on Mission St in Salem had its entry way and part of the roof collapse because the snow had so much moisture content. I recall 32" in the yard......
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I worked for the City of Portland Maintenance Bureau. I remember working 12-16 hour days manning pumps on Terwilliger, chainsawing up trees across hwy 30 just to turn around and chainsaw my way back out, using our snowplows to push mud and rocks of the roads... Shuttling jersey barriers to the waterfront park seawall... Yeah, good times!
I lived in Vernonia and they were cut off completely for a week and a half. There wasn't a passable road to go home on. |
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Ahh, the 96 storm.
Some kind of flood. I had just moved to Pendleton. I was loving all the snow. The snow was like a foot deep as far as the eye could see. Then I went into the courthouse early one day thinking that it seemed a bit warmer. The week leading up to that was maybe 10 degrees at 7 am and didn't go over 25 at all. Nothing had melted. Came out at lunch and it was actually 40 degrees and raining. At 5 oclock all of the snow, all of it, was gone. I thought gee I wonder if that is enough to bring the rivers up? Next thing I know Portland and Salem are totally under water. Mt. Hood's snow pack dropped like 80 inches. |
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moved to Texas in Sep of 96. I had severe Texas weather (it snowed in San antonio)
But I remember talking to my parents who lived south of Eugene. They could not get to their house for a week due to the flooding. Then my late grandmothers retirement trailer park, flooded. From what I hear, it was a mess. |
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'96 was outstanding
I lived on Burnside and worked at the top of 217 / 26. Memories: - The Stadium Freddys, the day of the storm(s) people buying candles and all sorts of 'survival' food - a look a shear panic on some of their faces - Trying to figure the safest way back over the hill to home each day. 26 and Burnside were a zoo - Dumbasses that could not drive - The importance of having a Thomas Guide in the car b/c the major roadways were clogged - Walking around downtown for 4 hours and being on the Broadway Bridge the night the river crested Anyone remember the pickup being chased down the street by the mudslide in SW? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1286528815609153677# |
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96 was the year it flooded. The Willamette over flowed it's banks. I sat on at the St. Helens yacht club (barge with bar) and watched docks, houses and other misc items float down the Columbia. Watched a few creeks in Columbia County flood out. They were evacuating one area in St. Helens due to the possiblity a dam breaking on one of the creeks. Vernonia got hit hard also with the Nehalem washing through town. Wasn't that the same year we got that massive wind storm too? I hope we don't see another repeat like it anytime soon. |