Here at Blog Central, the temperature is below freezing, there's a force coming in off the ocean, and that can think just one thing! 
Portland authorities stress that it's very important to make yourself for the potentially deadly weather we might encounter later today.Snow!Ice!Cold!You could die!
here's only one thing to do - remain indoors and stay glued all day to bojack.org StormCenter 9000.2.Do not go outside - do not even seem out the window!We have complete team coverage starting with this update from the Sylvan overpass: We're up here on the Sylvan overpass, and we're seeing road crews out here spraying de-icer on the dead dry roads.This is an important procedure, because it makes the dry roads look like they're covered in black ice.That way, drivers know what black ice looks like, so when they're driving on real black ice tonight, they won't be surprised at how it looks.
Also, you'll find that Portland has both of its snow plows out, and they're up here about the on-ramp, all chained up and set to go.If it snows, the real good-looking people in the city transportation office are Tweeting that barring unforeseen problems, they'll have 10 or 12 of the city's streets completely cleared out in the first 24 hours later the snow stops falling.Back to you at Blog Central. Thank you.Now we're leaving to go go for a study from the StormCenter 9000.2 team up on Crown Point in the Columbia Gorge.Can you see us up there?Take it away:We're up here on Crown Point and it's very windy, and the meteorologists tell us it's release to get still more windy as the storm bears down on us.Also, we're high up here, which way that unless there's an inversion, it's colder up here than it is land beneath us.And so, if it's snowing down there, it's definitely going to be snowing up here.In that case we'll both have snow, which could do for some hazardous travel conditions.Man, it's windy up here.Back to you.It's really blowing up there, isn't it?Now let's get an up-to-the-minute storm forecast from our StormCenter storm-tracking weather experts.They have been monitoring the rage from the observation deck of the debtors' detention center at the top of the Wells Fargo Tower:There could be some precipitation coming our way, and if the temperature stays below 32 degrees, it is likely going to freeze, either earlier or later it hits the ground.There is a definite risk of that happening.If it's snow, or rain that turns to ice, it's likely going to be slippery.Which way that people trying to go on it could slip, and maybe collide with something solid, causing injury.And so it might snow, and you might die.If it doesn't snow or freeze - if it's just plain rain - you'll be o.k.We'll let you live as shortly as it starts coming down.Until then, use caution.Back to you.Meanwhile, here in town people are pitching in to assist those who are most vulnerable to the bitter cold.The Portland police office is offer a free Tasing to anyone who wants it; they urge cold people to get a little knife or pointy scissors to the Justice Center lobby on Southwest Third.Please stop moving right away once you find the Taser and go to warm up.At the United Church of Christ out in Parkrose, the doors will be spread all day, and Reverend Chuck Currie has promised to have a brief sermon every minute on the minute to hold up a rich supply of hot air.City Commissioner Nick Fish and the crowd at the shopping cart locker operation in Old Town will be giving foot massages to the homeless beginning at sunset this evening.And Merritt Paulson, owner of the Portland Timbers soccer team, has offered to let a short or lower-middle-class person sit on the cap of his car after he parks it and heads into Bluehour today for lunch.Paulson's expected to be at valet parking at the restaurant at approximately 11:45 this morning.
We'll be back, live, after this message from Mattress World.Stay tuned to bojack.org StormCenter 9000.2 for all the latest on the Big '11 Storm.
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