Snow in Portland
This has been the coldest winter in 10 years in the Pacific Northwest. We've already had five arctic weather systems visiting us from British Columbia. Northwest weather news doesn't usually go national, but you may have heard Portland, Oregon got hammered with snow this week. Like Seattle, the town basically gives up and shuts down until the snow goes away. Neither city is prepared to deal with it.
We've only had about an inch of snow in Seattle this winter. The two cites are just 165 miles apart, but Seattle and Portland are a world's away in terms of weather. Portland tends to be warmer in the summer and colder in the winter.
At least the days are sunny and the nights clear. While we were eating dinner last night, an enormous full moon rose over yonder apartment building to the east. I have a new peek view from the kitchen table of the four-story complex on California Avenue called Spring Hill (of all things. )
The two bedroom, top floor apartments rent for about $3,000 a month. Who can afford to live there? And why would they? I'm obviously missing something about this familiar old neighborhood that is suddenly so hot.
I think about the thousands of strangers who now live within a few blocks of us. Like any snoopy person I watch their window lights and wonder what's going on up there? For starters, they don't eat 7 am weekend breakfasts like we do. And they were probably having a lot more fun the night before.
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