[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The typical freezing rain event in Portland, Oregon, every January, creates the most treacherous driving conditions I have ever seen. I lived in that area for a number of years and I learned to drive during winter in Anchorage, Alaska.

The area has a unique set of weather conditions that make freezing rain common. The warmer upper air pushing in from the Oregon coast brings rain while the Columbia River Gorge funnels much colder air from the East. The lower air is freezing as the rain overrides it. The rain falls into much colder conditions, freezing instantly.

It is not like a typical snow-covered street in Michigan or elsewhere.

It is the equivalent of trying to drive on a hockey rink with ice sometimes more than half an inch thick.

You can easily fall on your butt, just trying to step out of a vehicle, even though you know the slickness of the surface.

The simple fact is nobody should get near a vehicle in Portland after a freezing rain.

[KZele]

In this video there is nor was an ice storm --just snow, and only 2-3 inches if that. I live here (Beaverton) and work IN Portland Downtown. This was just assinine, plain and simple.
Born in Minnesota, and have lived in Kansas, Flaggstaff, AZ, Denver, Sun Valley, ID and others )Talk about snow nad ice!!!), I have driven in and seen much, much worse.

The video was shot in Portland, not Seattle --and no ice.

KZ