Snow in Portland Oregon Jan 16 2007

Portland, Oregon January 16 2007
As you can see in the beginning of this video is why MANY of us just stayed home and off the roads. Many streets in Portland, Oregon are very steep, and this is one of those streets. (cracks me up every time I watch this!! )
**FYI: Oregon does NOT use salt on their roads as it is dangerous to the environment and damages cars.
Oregon allows the use of studded tires or chains on cars. However, even on steep roads as this, they would not help.
The latter part of this video is just my 3 yr old twin boys and their first time ever in snow. We did the city a favour and STAYED home and off the roads.

This is also reported on KING5.com as MOST Watched video-
Amazing home video of icy collisions in Portland
January 16th, 2007
Elementary teacher Derek Porter witnessed 15 different car collisions on icy roads outside his Portland apartment Tuesday morning and caught several on home video.
Link to video & Report:
http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=114054&catId=80

Bumper cars Video found on Youtube with comments here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SPE8vL5hlFA

More about the weather across the US (looks like Oregon is not the only one hit )
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2373803n

Bad weather hits Europe as well:
http://www.katu.com/home/video/5265971.html?video=pop&t=a

Photos of Wicked Weather in Europe:
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/01/18/in_depth_world/photoessay2372221.shtml