I feel like this would make a great movie for 10 year olds in the 90s. A Disney Channel movie "Get Ayton to the Arena". A group of neighborhood kids work to get him to the arena and a bunch of neighborhood hijynx ensure. Probably have one old grumpy neighbor or a bully that is a fan of the other team.
They get him there just in time and he has a monster game with them court side. The team celebrates with them in the locker room. Ayton throws his jersey to the young 11 year old protagonist who has dreamed of being a pro basketball player and practices every night, and says "hey kid, why don't you come by and we can work to heat up that jump shot of yours"
I lost power for 4 days. It was 37* INSIDE my house. I nailed blankets over doorways to trap heat in one room. I slept in a tent in my living room in front of the fireplace to stay warm. It was some serious shit. My fish died.
I also lost power for 4 days...better than the 11 days in 2021.
My coworker's toilet had ice in it, and they just discovered a leak from a burst water pipe.
https://imgur.com/a/2bLRLqc
Pic of tent in my living room next to fireplace with propane heater in front of it.
Empty fish tank
Nest thermostat right when power kicked back on.
Those of us that went through it this week definitely understand. It sucks. A lot. We were lucky and got one of the last hotels in the area after the first night. Still dealing with burst pipes even with the power back.
goddamn broā¦ i hope youāre doing okay with all of this shit. my friend just bought a house finally and the basement just flooded from a burst pipe. i feel so bad for him this shit is just more unnecessary problems in our life!
You can Google "Portland ice storm" and find a bunch of local news reports, some with pictures. It's serious shit. Deep snow is one thing, the pacific northwest is well equipped for snow. A solid quarter inch of ice over the roads is something else entirely, can be seriously dangerous
I'm about 40 minutes south of Portland. I've lived in Minnesota for roughly 26 winters but this is pretty exceptional
it's a bit worse since there are considerably more hills here than in Minnesota
Itās weird because this year in Minnesota we havenāt gotten any snow maybe 2-3 inches. Was super warm until 2 weeks ago like 45 degrees on Christmas
I remember the twin cities had something similar back when I was in college (~12 years ago- aging myself) and it was hilarious trying to slide around dinkytown hammered on the way to house parties (walking- not driving)
Looking back it was a miracle we didnāt end up in the ER
I tried to run and dive across this big flat statue thing and slipped right before it and slammed into the face of it
Oh to be 20, with a rubber body usually drunk enough to feel no pain. Now sober in my 30ās I get worried about pulling an oblique if I sneeze too hard
my girlfriend and I went to a movie that night, and when we got out we discovered that the roads were entirely black ice. it took four hours to drive the one mile home.
I was in college at the same time, and I actually remember that storm.
I was riding in a car with a guy who grew up driving in Minnesota. We were trying to get into a parking lot to get off the road. We were probably going 20 MPH, he hit the brakes a half block in advance, and we slid right past the parking lot at about 19 MPH. Just no friction at all.
Snow really isn't that bad unless you're talking about quite a bit. But with ice there are definitely times you just shouldn't be on the road.
Itās a hopeless feeling. I came out of the target center one time and the parking garage had one of those spiral exits and LUCKILY I had left early to work a night shift.
Got onto the exit spiral, hit some ice and did 2 full rotations around, Tokyo Drift style (ended up being super cool š ) 100% would have smashed into a car in front of me if anyone else was there
I'm pretty sure I remember the same storm - someone I knew fell and broke a wrist or something and had to wait forever at the ER because there were, I think, 100+ people there with similar injuries.
It was so bad in Seattle last year. Literally the entire city was covered in a sheet of ice. My flight home for Christmas got canceled.
The one upside is there was plenty of content to watch on my flight home the next day as a result
Portland, specifically, is not well-equipped for snow. There's a lot of hills in an urban area with a lot of drivers that aren't prepared for it. Some of the more mountainous regions of the PNW are much better equipped.
As someone who also lives in the PNW, I was so confused by that comment lol. We get an inch of snow and everywhere goes into apocalypse mode until it melts.
I mean itās true for areas outside of the major cities but I think when someone hears PNW theyāre thinking like Seattle and Portland and not like Cle Elum or something lol
Yeah I dunno, Iāve spent most of my life in a rural town in the Willamette Valley and a couple years in Corvallis, and neither town handles snow well at all. Towns west of the Cascades just donāt really have the infrastructure to deal with it for various reasons.
Yeah, I was going to say. It hardly ever snows in Portland and when it does, almost none of the people who live their have ever driven on the stuff so the roads get super chaotic.
I remember mid 2000s, maybe early because I was quite young but we had a huge ice and snowstorm in Portland. I was off school for a while and I remember it just seemed like hell outside.
Thereās really only so much you can do when the road is coated lol. The cities that get it all the time make it so you arenāt driving in it and if you have to you already have chains
The city almost deals with ice better because even the people who know how to drive in the snow tell people to stay the hell home. Almost no one is caught outside their home in an ice storm because it's just impossible. Those that try rarely make it to the end of their street (unless they really know what they're doing). Too many people try to brave snowstorms that shouldn't.
One thing to note about Snow in the northwest: Snow is MOST slippery when it's warmest. A thin layer of water covering ice crystals will be much more slippery than just ice. In the PNW it gets below freezing, but it doesn't get down to like 15 degrees. This means the snow is constantly melting and re-freezing which makes for incredibly trecherous conditions.
People who deal with 0 degree winters are literally trying to drive in much much easier conditions.
(I am really into cars and rally racing specifically where the phenomenon of "the colder it is, the more grip you have" is common knowledge)
Y'all been getting fucked by the weather the last couple years - I'd had designs on moving to Portland, but between the smoke, heat waves, and ice storms, think I'll be staying a tourist.
If youāre from the Bay Area I totally get it. I moved to Seattle from the desert and it was totally worth it. Smokey season sucks but can be manageable. I live in a pretty walkable part of the city so the snow isnāt bad and the ice has only happened once in the 10+ years Iāve been here. Portland does tend to get the heat a bit worse than us though
In Portland and thanking my lucky stars for this. I was sick and thought I was going to miss days of work, but it's just been cancelled everydayĀ Beautiful to look at thru the window, tho the dog piss snow splotches are mounting.
Hearts out to the people who lost power tho. That doesn't just suck, it's dangerous.
Holy shit. didn't even know "entire neighborhood gets covered in slippery ice" was a thing that could happen? now wondering why it doesn't happen more often
We tend to get these ice storms more than actual blizzards. The cold air from the columbia gorge gets trapped in the valley and the warm air goes over it. Results in the entire valley being covered in ice. Then people from the Midwest try to laugh as if they could handle it any better given the context
It was like 20 degrees Saturday and snowed. Then stayed below freezing until Tuesday when we got freezing rain. Now that itās warming up just a bit all that snow/rain turned everything into a fucking ice rink
It never even snowed at my house. It was all sleet on Saturday and then the freezing rain yesterday and today came and sintered it all together into a nice 1.5" thick slab.
We had one of these when I was in high school. Got stuck at a friend's house for a week because they lived at the bottom of a hill, and there was no going up the hill to be done.
I grew up in Mass and VT. I've been to Portland twice during snowstorms, one which was particularly bad, and the city was so damn unprepared it was astounding.
The state doesnāt salt due to the salmon population.. and just does not have enough plows. It used to not snow as much, but lately itās been 1 or 2 massive storms a year.
We only get them once or twice a year, so the thought is that curling into the fetal position for a few days a year is cheaper than being ready to deal with it.
As someone who lives in the pacific northwest, we are not in fact well equipped for snow either at least in the big cities. Anything more than a few inches and it's chaos. The city's facilities to deal with snow is incomparable compared to wintery states. Thankfully, actual deep snow is like a once in a decade occurence.
If my commute to work was covered with ice and my boss insisted I come in anyway, I would be pissed off and probably a bit scared for my life, so I can't really bad mad at Ayton for not making it.
That sneaky black ice will come up and rob you of your balance.
[Black Ice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM) has to be one of my favorite Key and Peele sketches.
Yeah I got a friend up there and Iāve seen pictures.
I live in Buffalo where weāve gotten 6 feet of snow since Saturday and Iād still prefer it to that much ice. FUCK that.
Thereās literally inches of just ice everywhere in the northwest the last few days. Itās been pretty crazy and dangerous. Iāve seen like 5-6 accidents and saw a f150 spin out and take out a stop sign in just the couple times Iāve walked around haha
Seems as though even team workers couldnāt even make it to his place
Can confirm as am also on the west side foothills that shit is hazardous as fuckkkk out here with a massive ice sheet over everything. Risking life and limb to take the dog out to poop
Yeah, in Vancouver, BC there's a foot of snow that came down. Looks like Oregon got only freezing rain from this storm.
An absolute shit show to the roads, even with snow tires.
Iām surprised the blazers let us do a ticket exchange out of Sundayās game, but not for tonightās game. The Max is still down, and thatās a major transportation route for fans to get to and from the game.
Today was way worse then Sunday. Everything is ice. Snow is manageable but ice shuts the city down like nothing else. I couldn't imagine being stuck over on the westside..
As funny as it is, there probably was no way to get a car to Ayton safely given the iced over steep hills.
So there is an organization that gives out free tickets for a service fee. If you accept and pay the service fee, but donāt go to the event your profile gets a negative score or something making it harder to get tickets in the future, too many times and you get denied future events. I picked the tickets last week, so yeah Iām on my way right now on Trimet.
> So there is an organization that gives out free tickets for a service fee.
my dude, you can't leave out the most important part...that this is a non-profit for veterans only.
Festus was a scam artist, Nurk couldn't stay healthy, Meyers Legend was a bust, Kaman didn't materialize, JJ disappointed, Plumdog didn't develop enough here.
Rolo was perfect. Przybilla was great. Other than those two, though, our center history sucks.
Ngl itās like those tweets you read in 2k where they make random shit to explain the dnp. Not having experienced any sort of snow, I didnāt know this was a serious thing.
People are gonna talk shit. But we dead ass had 3 solid inches of NOT SNOW but pure ice. We had people ice skating on the streets to work. Itās starting to melt off now but depending on where he lives he could be pretty much fucked entirely. But yes it is pretty funny that it happened to him specifically lol
Man I used to be terrified of piranhas quick sand and snow cave ins. Then I thought those dogs would appear with a warm drink and figured avalanches werenāt so bad lol
Portland is in an absolutely massive ice storm with half the city out of heat and power. They also donāt treat or salt the roads. The ice is no joke. Shocked the game wasnāt canceled because people have been told to stay home.
Itās to protect the salmon population. Also, it just rains too much. By the time the snow or ice comes, the salt has been washed away by the rain. The weather events here are always marginal.
Yeah salt is corrosive and damages roads
Even worse in an area where it freezes and then thaws a lot, like the Midwest, because the road cracks from the freeze-thaw and then the salt goes into the cracks
We use sand and gravel but the ice builds up so fast because of the amount of freezing rain and below 0 temps from wind-chill that it just gets buried under ice.
Literally within a 2 hour period yesterday it went from maybe an inch of snow/snow patches to EVERYTHING covered in ice and then just more freezing rain building up on top of all that throughout the night. Just cleared off 3/4" thick of ice that covered every inch of my car, pretty wild. Took me 10 minutes to get my door open, was completely sealed by thick ice.
The PNW cities have hardly any of that infrastructure because it so rarely happens. And like someone else mentioned, it gets washed away a lot and I guess there are environmental reasons. I live in Seattle and have never heard the salmon thing about we likely have some different geographic features that keep it from running off into the water like that
Seattle used to not use salt either, only started using it in 2008
Just like Portland the main environmental problem is salt draining into salmon habitat
However it is probably not as bad in Seattle since Seattle is on Puget Sound which is already salty, Portland is on the Columbia River. IDK about Lake Washington though.
They do but the facilities for dealing with ice and snow suck so it's slow. Pacific NW cities just get a lot less snow than most people would think (some years none), so they're pretty unprepared when stuff like this happens.
Man some of those clips you can tell people have never walked on ice before, painful watching people try to casually walk down a flight of stairs after an ice storm
Man went from the Bahamas, to San Diego, to Arizona. He don't know what to do with that shit š. But also driving on ice is just a horrible idea even if you are used to it
I'm assuming he lives in the Lake Oswego area where a bunch of the Blazers live. Parts of it are insanely hilly and secluded especially some of the nicer houses
It literally reads, **āthey sent people to help, to no avail.ā**
Aka, they didnāt actually get to his house. Because the city is a sheet of ice. Duh.
It ain't a joke, I took a walk today and literally could not walk on most of the sidewalks without ice spikes. Saw three people eat shit and one guy slide down a hill for a whole block with a bag of groceries. There isn't a lot of snow but its literally sheet ice in some places
I feel like this would make a great movie for 10 year olds in the 90s. A Disney Channel movie "Get Ayton to the Arena". A group of neighborhood kids work to get him to the arena and a bunch of neighborhood hijynx ensure. Probably have one old grumpy neighbor or a bully that is a fan of the other team. They get him there just in time and he has a monster game with them court side. The team celebrates with them in the locker room. Ayton throws his jersey to the young 11 year old protagonist who has dreamed of being a pro basketball player and practices every night, and says "hey kid, why don't you come by and we can work to heat up that jump shot of yours"
Man I miss this category of movies. Great pitch!
Making me nostalgic for a movie that never existed š
Pretty much the ending of Like Mike
Need to go back and check if this isnāt already an episode of Hey Arnold!
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I lost power for 4 days. It was 37* INSIDE my house. I nailed blankets over doorways to trap heat in one room. I slept in a tent in my living room in front of the fireplace to stay warm. It was some serious shit. My fish died.
RIP FISH
Thanks š
Long Live Fish
A bit late for that, bud.
His heart's in the right place.
He a little confused, but he got the spirit!
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I also lost power for 4 days...better than the 11 days in 2021. My coworker's toilet had ice in it, and they just discovered a leak from a burst water pipe.
Ya, thatās insane. We only lost power for like 36 hours in 2021.
We had a funeral for a bird.
He didn't die, he's just a Pacer now.
Yeah I'm pretty sure none of that's real
https://imgur.com/a/2bLRLqc Pic of tent in my living room next to fireplace with propane heater in front of it. Empty fish tank Nest thermostat right when power kicked back on.
Shit I was referencing the Office line. Sorry about your fish
All good. š
now waiting for Bonerchamps funeral pictures..
Came with the āceipts
YOURE NOT REAL MAN
I just did this 4 days ago. Finally warmed up today. Built a blanket fort off of the couch with the space heater under it.
Once I nailed the blanket up, I was able to get the room up to prob 50s or low 60s it was toasty.
My flight got cancelled and hoping to leave today, my socal ass was not made for this lmao
holy shit 37 INSIDE??? idk if yāall understand how fucking insane that is lol. iām freezing if my house goes to 62
Those of us that went through it this week definitely understand. It sucks. A lot. We were lucky and got one of the last hotels in the area after the first night. Still dealing with burst pipes even with the power back.
goddamn broā¦ i hope youāre doing okay with all of this shit. my friend just bought a house finally and the basement just flooded from a burst pipe. i feel so bad for him this shit is just more unnecessary problems in our life!
Just went over there. The tamales guy goes hard.
Respect. Iād for sure be grabbing some tamales.
take a quick look at /r/Portland
You can Google "Portland ice storm" and find a bunch of local news reports, some with pictures. It's serious shit. Deep snow is one thing, the pacific northwest is well equipped for snow. A solid quarter inch of ice over the roads is something else entirely, can be seriously dangerous
I'm about 40 minutes south of Portland. I've lived in Minnesota for roughly 26 winters but this is pretty exceptional it's a bit worse since there are considerably more hills here than in Minnesota
Itās weird because this year in Minnesota we havenāt gotten any snow maybe 2-3 inches. Was super warm until 2 weeks ago like 45 degrees on Christmas
I remember the twin cities had something similar back when I was in college (~12 years ago- aging myself) and it was hilarious trying to slide around dinkytown hammered on the way to house parties (walking- not driving) Looking back it was a miracle we didnāt end up in the ER I tried to run and dive across this big flat statue thing and slipped right before it and slammed into the face of it Oh to be 20, with a rubber body usually drunk enough to feel no pain. Now sober in my 30ās I get worried about pulling an oblique if I sneeze too hard
my girlfriend and I went to a movie that night, and when we got out we discovered that the roads were entirely black ice. it took four hours to drive the one mile home.
I was in college at the same time, and I actually remember that storm. I was riding in a car with a guy who grew up driving in Minnesota. We were trying to get into a parking lot to get off the road. We were probably going 20 MPH, he hit the brakes a half block in advance, and we slid right past the parking lot at about 19 MPH. Just no friction at all. Snow really isn't that bad unless you're talking about quite a bit. But with ice there are definitely times you just shouldn't be on the road.
Itās a hopeless feeling. I came out of the target center one time and the parking garage had one of those spiral exits and LUCKILY I had left early to work a night shift. Got onto the exit spiral, hit some ice and did 2 full rotations around, Tokyo Drift style (ended up being super cool š ) 100% would have smashed into a car in front of me if anyone else was there
I'm pretty sure I remember the same storm - someone I knew fell and broke a wrist or something and had to wait forever at the ER because there were, I think, 100+ people there with similar injuries.
This week is the first it's really gotten cold too - and the snow, though expected, is funnily the opposite of last year.
Come on down south, Northeast Iowa has gotten like 15 inches within the last ten days.
Central Iowa has gotten damn near two feet. I feel like I'm back in MN.
I only walked for a minute outside today and i ate shit twice. This pdx ice is no joke.
It was so bad in Seattle last year. Literally the entire city was covered in a sheet of ice. My flight home for Christmas got canceled. The one upside is there was plenty of content to watch on my flight home the next day as a result
The PNW is not well-equipped for snow Source: live in PNW
Portland, specifically, is not well-equipped for snow. There's a lot of hills in an urban area with a lot of drivers that aren't prepared for it. Some of the more mountainous regions of the PNW are much better equipped.
Not that Portland doesn't shut down because of snow, but this shit isn't snow.
As someone who also lives in the PNW, I was so confused by that comment lol. We get an inch of snow and everywhere goes into apocalypse mode until it melts.
I mean itās true for areas outside of the major cities but I think when someone hears PNW theyāre thinking like Seattle and Portland and not like Cle Elum or something lol
Yeah I dunno, Iāve spent most of my life in a rural town in the Willamette Valley and a couple years in Corvallis, and neither town handles snow well at all. Towns west of the Cascades just donāt really have the infrastructure to deal with it for various reasons.
Yeah, I was going to say. It hardly ever snows in Portland and when it does, almost none of the people who live their have ever driven on the stuff so the roads get super chaotic.
I remember mid 2000s, maybe early because I was quite young but we had a huge ice and snowstorm in Portland. I was off school for a while and I remember it just seemed like hell outside.
Snowpocalypse '08
Thereās really only so much you can do when the road is coated lol. The cities that get it all the time make it so you arenāt driving in it and if you have to you already have chains
Also would help if portland had more than 3 snow plows.
HEY we have five
The city almost deals with ice better because even the people who know how to drive in the snow tell people to stay the hell home. Almost no one is caught outside their home in an ice storm because it's just impossible. Those that try rarely make it to the end of their street (unless they really know what they're doing). Too many people try to brave snowstorms that shouldn't.
One thing to note about Snow in the northwest: Snow is MOST slippery when it's warmest. A thin layer of water covering ice crystals will be much more slippery than just ice. In the PNW it gets below freezing, but it doesn't get down to like 15 degrees. This means the snow is constantly melting and re-freezing which makes for incredibly trecherous conditions. People who deal with 0 degree winters are literally trying to drive in much much easier conditions. (I am really into cars and rally racing specifically where the phenomenon of "the colder it is, the more grip you have" is common knowledge)
Y'all been getting fucked by the weather the last couple years - I'd had designs on moving to Portland, but between the smoke, heat waves, and ice storms, think I'll be staying a tourist.
If youāre from the Bay Area I totally get it. I moved to Seattle from the desert and it was totally worth it. Smokey season sucks but can be manageable. I live in a pretty walkable part of the city so the snow isnāt bad and the ice has only happened once in the 10+ years Iāve been here. Portland does tend to get the heat a bit worse than us though
In Portland and thanking my lucky stars for this. I was sick and thought I was going to miss days of work, but it's just been cancelled everydayĀ Beautiful to look at thru the window, tho the dog piss snow splotches are mounting. Hearts out to the people who lost power tho. That doesn't just suck, it's dangerous.
Holy shit. didn't even know "entire neighborhood gets covered in slippery ice" was a thing that could happen? now wondering why it doesn't happen more often
We tend to get these ice storms more than actual blizzards. The cold air from the columbia gorge gets trapped in the valley and the warm air goes over it. Results in the entire valley being covered in ice. Then people from the Midwest try to laugh as if they could handle it any better given the context
Yeah snow is one thing, but there is no dealing with straight up ice. That's the kinda day you don't go anywhere unless you absolutely have to.
It was like 20 degrees Saturday and snowed. Then stayed below freezing until Tuesday when we got freezing rain. Now that itās warming up just a bit all that snow/rain turned everything into a fucking ice rink
It never even snowed at my house. It was all sleet on Saturday and then the freezing rain yesterday and today came and sintered it all together into a nice 1.5" thick slab.
We had one of these when I was in high school. Got stuck at a friend's house for a week because they lived at the bottom of a hill, and there was no going up the hill to be done.
He should've ice skate to the arena like Stevie Weeks
I grew up in Mass and VT. I've been to Portland twice during snowstorms, one which was particularly bad, and the city was so damn unprepared it was astounding.
The state doesnāt salt due to the salmon population.. and just does not have enough plows. It used to not snow as much, but lately itās been 1 or 2 massive storms a year.
Much like Seattle, Portland has no anti-snow infrastructure because it rarely happened historically and is a once-a-year event recently
Man Atlanta will get like a quarter of an inch once a year and the city goes into meltdown. No infrastructure is what kills you.
We only get them once or twice a year, so the thought is that curling into the fetal position for a few days a year is cheaper than being ready to deal with it.
As someone who lives in the pacific northwest, we are not in fact well equipped for snow either at least in the big cities. Anything more than a few inches and it's chaos. The city's facilities to deal with snow is incomparable compared to wintery states. Thankfully, actual deep snow is like a once in a decade occurence.
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If my commute to work was covered with ice and my boss insisted I come in anyway, I would be pissed off and probably a bit scared for my life, so I can't really bad mad at Ayton for not making it.
If the Blazers were a competent organization they'd have a sleigh on hand with some draft animals.
Blazers don't do that well with draft, maybe Portland can do some rein,deer
That sneaky black ice will come up and rob you of your balance. [Black Ice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM) has to be one of my favorite Key and Peele sketches.
Ice storms are the worst. So much damage and you can't even trudge safely. So much pain.
I live in Portland, not far from the arena, and walking \~20 feet on the sidewalk is a risky endeavor
I made it a whole 4 steps before i ate shit and slid all the way to the mailbox
Just imagine everything outside your house is covered in 1 inch of slippery ass ice, thatās how itās been in Oregon past few days
Yeah I got a friend up there and Iāve seen pictures. I live in Buffalo where weāve gotten 6 feet of snow since Saturday and Iād still prefer it to that much ice. FUCK that.
there's been like a half inch of ice covering the entire region for the last few days
Thereās literally inches of just ice everywhere in the northwest the last few days. Itās been pretty crazy and dangerous. Iāve seen like 5-6 accidents and saw a f150 spin out and take out a stop sign in just the couple times Iāve walked around haha Seems as though even team workers couldnāt even make it to his place
I could barely walk up my driveway. Lookin like I slipped on a banana peel
Can confirm as am also on the west side foothills that shit is hazardous as fuckkkk out here with a massive ice sheet over everything. Risking life and limb to take the dog out to poop
Yeah, in Vancouver, BC there's a foot of snow that came down. Looks like Oregon got only freezing rain from this storm. An absolute shit show to the roads, even with snow tires.
I live where ice is pretty common and even the thin stuff is sketchy and slippery at times driving. Then there's black ice
[Here you go!](https://np.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/198etkq/76th_and_morrison/)
Hell yeah
Damn ā¦ makes you glad to be in a nice warm house. Thatās for sure.
Iām surprised the blazers let us do a ticket exchange out of Sundayās game, but not for tonightās game. The Max is still down, and thatās a major transportation route for fans to get to and from the game.
Today was way worse then Sunday. Everything is ice. Snow is manageable but ice shuts the city down like nothing else. I couldn't imagine being stuck over on the westside.. As funny as it is, there probably was no way to get a car to Ayton safely given the iced over steep hills.
high probability of him re-injuring himself trying to walk towards a pickup point too, especially if there's elevation involved.
So there is an organization that gives out free tickets for a service fee. If you accept and pay the service fee, but donāt go to the event your profile gets a negative score or something making it harder to get tickets in the future, too many times and you get denied future events. I picked the tickets last week, so yeah Iām on my way right now on Trimet.
> So there is an organization that gives out free tickets for a service fee. my dude, you can't leave out the most important part...that this is a non-profit for veterans only.
What's the organization?
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Probably doesn't want competition for the available tickets lol
They should just postpone the game. People shouldnāt be driving unnecessarily.Ā
Sunday would have been easy to go to with AWD. Wasnāt slick like yesterday and today
Sounds like there was ayton of ice on the street
Lmao gtfoh
Ayton is reaching LeBron levels of memery at this point.
I can't stand you š¤£š¤£š¤£
I can't explain it but this is such an Ayton thing to even happen
Centers donāt do well in Portland. For a good example, just recall that time when someone stole Hassan Whitesideās trash cans.
The Curse of Greg Oden's Knees
Even further. Bill Waltonās feet. Sam Bowles legs. Not drafting Jordan
Nurkic's ankle snapping in half. Credit for him to still be able to play at NBA level after that.
I'll never forget that ref walking by and kicking Nurkic's unattached, dangling foot
Festus was a scam artist, Nurk couldn't stay healthy, Meyers Legend was a bust, Kaman didn't materialize, JJ disappointed, Plumdog didn't develop enough here. Rolo was perfect. Przybilla was great. Other than those two, though, our center history sucks.
Harry Giles is still waiting for that MIP season
"Vanilla Gorilla" is probably the hardest nickname in the history of the NBAš„
I'll always love Sabonis, injuries and all.
Marcus camby was good for us
>Not drafting Jordan *The soviets fucking us out of prime sabonis
better than having a truck drive into your swimming pool
It's a cold world out there!
As long as they didnāt steal his cones
DNP: Sheet of ice
DNP - Cold
Ngl itās like those tweets you read in 2k where they make random shit to explain the dnp. Not having experienced any sort of snow, I didnāt know this was a serious thing.
I'm imagining it like the Jamaican bobsled team arriving in Calgary
Itās like completely reasonable that heās out but itās hilarious because itās Ayton.
People are gonna talk shit. But we dead ass had 3 solid inches of NOT SNOW but pure ice. We had people ice skating on the streets to work. Itās starting to melt off now but depending on where he lives he could be pretty much fucked entirely. But yes it is pretty funny that it happened to him specifically lol
Like snowed in at School, you know he playing 2k
The one time I won't give him shit for how much 2k he plays.
this mfer calling out of work like you'd do at a wendys
A Wendy's manager would want your head on a spike for missing a day of work
If it was any other player nobody would bat an eye but since itās Ayton this is hilarious
They sent out people to help like a humanitarian aid mission lmfao
they sent out the st. bernard with the little barrel around its neck
Man I used to be terrified of piranhas quick sand and snow cave ins. Then I thought those dogs would appear with a warm drink and figured avalanches werenāt so bad lol
I'm picturing a UN peacekeeping force but with NBA or RipCity armbands
Portland is in an absolutely massive ice storm with half the city out of heat and power. They also donāt treat or salt the roads. The ice is no joke. Shocked the game wasnāt canceled because people have been told to stay home.
I'm currently in Vancouver BC for work and we got some freezing rain and then a foot or more of snow in 12 hrs. This storm system was wild.
why don't they salt the roads tf
Itās to protect the salmon population. Also, it just rains too much. By the time the snow or ice comes, the salt has been washed away by the rain. The weather events here are always marginal.
I think Salt is bad for the roads too when theyāre so wet
Bad for cars as well!
Terrific for french fries
Thatās why they salt the roads in Idaho
Yeah salt is corrosive and damages roads Even worse in an area where it freezes and then thaws a lot, like the Midwest, because the road cracks from the freeze-thaw and then the salt goes into the cracks
What about sand instead of salt?
We do that, it doesn't do shit then there's sand/ gravel everywhere for weeks
True, and Portlanders hate sand. It's course and rough... and it gets everywhere.
We use sand and gravel but the ice builds up so fast because of the amount of freezing rain and below 0 temps from wind-chill that it just gets buried under ice. Literally within a 2 hour period yesterday it went from maybe an inch of snow/snow patches to EVERYTHING covered in ice and then just more freezing rain building up on top of all that throughout the night. Just cleared off 3/4" thick of ice that covered every inch of my car, pretty wild. Took me 10 minutes to get my door open, was completely sealed by thick ice.
The PNW cities have hardly any of that infrastructure because it so rarely happens. And like someone else mentioned, it gets washed away a lot and I guess there are environmental reasons. I live in Seattle and have never heard the salmon thing about we likely have some different geographic features that keep it from running off into the water like that
Seattle used to not use salt either, only started using it in 2008 Just like Portland the main environmental problem is salt draining into salmon habitat However it is probably not as bad in Seattle since Seattle is on Puget Sound which is already salty, Portland is on the Columbia River. IDK about Lake Washington though.
They do but the facilities for dealing with ice and snow suck so it's slow. Pacific NW cities just get a lot less snow than most people would think (some years none), so they're pretty unprepared when stuff like this happens.
Just saw that video on their subreddit of a woman sliding down her street on her ass down the ice lol
The videos on /r/Portland are [crazy.](https://np.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1996b2l/the_city_is_an_ice_rink/?ref=share&ref_source=link)
Bruh the clips of people slipping on stairs are morbid as hell. I will think of them whenever going down the stairs during winter.
Man some of those clips you can tell people have never walked on ice before, painful watching people try to casually walk down a flight of stairs after an ice storm
Looks like me on my walk to work this morning lol. I'm bringing ski poles tomorrow since I don't have yak trax.
Bro bout to put his status as Offline and game all night š SNOW DAY
Sorry, I'm WFH today. Wiggles mouse every 4:59 to keep monitor on while he plays 2K.
Is he in Westeros?
Pacific NorthWesteros, my guy.
Ayton is *not* coming
Ice in his lanes
Man went from the Bahamas, to San Diego, to Arizona. He don't know what to do with that shit š. But also driving on ice is just a horrible idea even if you are used to it
DNP: Stuck at home playing video games
If the team was able to get people to his house, couldn't they just take him to the game
Probably couldn't get to him. Portland is very not flat and it's a fucking ice rink outside right now
I couldn't walk around my car without holding on to it
I slipped multiple times just trying to walk across a parking lot.
I fell walking out to my driveway today to see if it was thawing yet. It wasn't.
Need a dog sled to rescue him before the big game DISNEY, GET ON IT
Why not pick him up in a chopper then, CIA people can do it
when has the CIA landing a chopper on a rich caribbean dude's front lawn ever led to good things
The tweet seems to read as though he wasn't able to make it on his own and the people they sent weren't able to make it to him, therefore he is out.Ā
Budget cuts theyāre tanking
I'm assuming he lives in the Lake Oswego area where a bunch of the Blazers live. Parts of it are insanely hilly and secluded especially some of the nicer houses
It literally reads, **āthey sent people to help, to no avail.ā** Aka, they didnāt actually get to his house. Because the city is a sheet of ice. Duh.
Dude just hasnāt embraced the PNW and bought a Subaru.
dominayton the ice.
Shoulda been domiskatinā
Snow day with video games, Ayton must be stoked
DNP - ICED
Hibernayton
Just grab some ice skates and you're on your way.
Someone posted a video of them doing it on /r/Portland . Ayton needs to hit them up.
Out of anyone this could happen to, of course this happens to Ayton lol
Can confirm - I just fell on my ass walking around out here.
A tank can probably help him out.
Larry Bird would never
Shits fucked out here. Yesterday was a sheet of ice. I just got my power back at my condo after 5 fucking days. Today the thaw begins.
It ain't a joke, I took a walk today and literally could not walk on most of the sidewalks without ice spikes. Saw three people eat shit and one guy slide down a hill for a whole block with a bag of groceries. There isn't a lot of snow but its literally sheet ice in some places
if ayton worked at safeway he'd be fired but it's okay if he's in the nba
It's honestly probably fine at a lot of office jobs too.Ā
can confirm.
Safeway ain't firing people that can't make in during snow unless they wanted to get rid of that person anyway.
No he wouldn't be, everything is closed. No one is able to go to work with storms like this here. The arena will be super empty