Roy's bus is showing NO buses on the web, but it's not on the cancelled list. Still, we've been watching and listening and NO bus has gone up or down our road. He's called in that he'll get there if he can.

We've broken a 40 year record for snowfall.

Portland snowfall breaking 40-year record

10:19 AM PST on Monday, December 22, 2008

By kgw.com and AP Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. -- More snow continues to fall in the Portland and Vancouver Metro areas Monday, paralyzing the cities, closing down the Gorge, and keeping travelers stuck at the airport and Amtrak station. Monday's high was only expected to reach 30 degrees.( Read more... )

fickleone! Hope the snowdays aren't driving you totally insane.

What I wouldn't give for food someone else cooked right now. I want a Whopper with a vengeance...

And once he got on the road, the tightener for the left one popped off. Argh. He turned the corner and stopped there. I got called to come operate the van while he fixed it.

The part that goes to the back side of the tire had pulled forward and he had to cut lnk to get it off. The man across the street came to help. He is older, reminds me of Ed Asner with a little beard. He got Roy a saw and a big flat head screwdriver to bend the link out.

Then the neighbor across the street came out to watch, too. I'm sitting in the van, so embarrassed. And this guy looks like Ron White. Seriously, I kept expecting to hear him say, "They call me "Tater Salad".

Eventually Roy got the link off and the chain off, laid the chain back out, I drove onto it again and the shortened chain tightened up much better.

he and Katie made it to the store and then they're going to attempt Burger King. We'll have a late lunch and a later dinner - spaghetti, of which I can make enough to go into tomorrow's lunch as leftovers.

The snow has stopped andsobe stopped through tomorrow, although we're still below freezing so no real melt. Snow again Christmas Eve through Christmas Day. We're supposed to go up to Vancouver 24th. I'm thinking....no.

14 inches since this all began. We're definitely hoping now that we don't get any sort of Pineapple Express, because we REALLY don't want flooding from a sudden melt...