An Amtrak train with 183 passengers has been stranded in snowy Oregon since Sunday

CNN ^ | February 26, 2019 | Christina Maxouris and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've got a bad feeling about the guy in the dining car.

[Interesting Times]

See, this is why we decided to rename it to “climate change.”

[NativeSon]

Owl Bore must’ve showed up for a “global warming whistle stop tour” ....

[TIElniff]

Are there no helicopters in Oregon? or have they also been outlawed?

[frank ballenger]

Oregon,Washington and CA are all ahead of the curve for the Communist USA.

[frank ballenger]

Owl Bore must’ve showed up for a “global warming whistle stop tour” ....
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Noticed he put on even more weight.
When he got on that train it slowed to a crawl and now can’t move.

[SamAdams76]

Are helicopters able to land and takeoff in deep snow?

[deport]

Are helicopters able to land and takeoff in deep snow?

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Not if the snow touches the rotor.....

[Mogger]

If they told me I couldn’t smoke on the train, I’d have dug us out by now.

A good omen to exercise some self control, grow a set, man up and quit that nasty habit.

[I want the USA back]

Damn that global warming!

[deport]

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Oakridge, Oregon .......... ........ ....... .. Airport

[OldMissileer]

Are helicopters able to land and takeoff in deep snow?

Back in 1991 we had a spring blizzard up at Grand Forks, ND. One of my missile maintenance teams had an accident out in the field and I had to take a Huey out to the accident site. We couldn't land on the road so the chopper pilot hovered about three feet over a farmer's field and I jumped out into waist deep snow. Had to wade to the road but I made it.

[DesertRhino]

If only we had some sort of flying machine that could carry things to the train, and land right on the spot. It could carry work crews, heavy equipment, food, etc. And if need be, it could fly the passengers to safety.

There must be a way.

[DesertRhino]

You know what that snow does right before the helo lands?

[DesertRhino]

You know what that snow does right before the helo lands?

[TIElniff]

I was thinking more like landing on top of the train and carrying off a few passengers at a time.

[jonascord]

"Are helicopters able to land and takeoff in deep snow?"

It's not the snow. Hitting a tree with a rotor blade is contra-indicated. There are A LOT of trees, and the right-of-way is simply not wide enough to land.

They could drop a daisy cutter, to clear an LZ, but that creates other minor problems...

[outpostinmass2]

High in snow-swept Donner Pass, the “City of San Francisco” was marooned! Here is the dramatic story of how the Southern Pacific dug it out....

http://cprr.org/Museum/Stranded_Streamliner_1952/index.html

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Will they correlate the passenger manifest to babies born nine months hence? Sounds like a good incubator.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Let’s hear it for 1830s technology!