[jyl]

Portland is similarly shut down by snow, though it takes more like 6".

I remember one year it was snowing enough to shut the runways at PDX. TV showed a snowplow, clearing a track in the snow. Then the camera pulled back and showed just that one plow alone on all the runways and taxiways, an ant-like speck in a huge expanse of white. It was funny as heck and I realized my street was never, ever going to be plowed . And it never was.