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WHAT A SHOCK IT WAS! Prior to last Wednesday's storm, we watched the forecast very closely for over a week. We monitored the prediction of cold weather arriving and the potential for some minor snowy conditions. We planned to pre-treat sites and then react to any minor clearing, as it was anticipated temperatures to drop into the teens.
It started to snow on the east side of Portland and in Vancouver around noon on Wednesday and we began to deploy there with our Hillsboro, Sherwood and Salem offices on standby. By 5:00pm, there was plowable snow on the ground on the east side and in Vancouver, so we deployed our plow trucks and plow sub-contractors. It was very challenging to deploy on short notice after the snow started and especially when traffic began to snarl.
About that same time, snow began to fall in Hillsboro and the southern portions of town, as the forecast was still predicting light dustings! As the evening unfolded and snow began to pile up to the west and south, we again scrambled to deploy our crews and subcontractors there as well.
We brought down thirty team members from the Puget Sound region to assist the Portland crews because there was little to no snow up there. Even PLM President, Bob Grover, spent a 15-hour shift in a plow truck!
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