[Otter74]

As a long time resident of the Midwest, it is easy to laugh at this, and I do.

But as a good friend who lives in Portland points out, they don't get it often, the city doesn't have much snow-removal equipment, and there are hills everywhere. So I get it.

I was struck, when I was in either Seattle or Portland early this year (I can't remember which trip it was) that seemingly every third car had studded tires on it - not hard to tell, since you could hear them from 50 yards away.

Here in Chicago, Streets & San has hundreds of spreader/plow trucks and they squeegee the main streets curb-to-curb as soon as the snow starts falling. I get it why Portland can't do that. Still, it's fun to make fun of them!