What to Do When It Snows in the PNW!

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

We don't get snow very often on the Lower Columbia River.

What is a PNW'er to do?

 

[Comodave]

What to do? Stay out of covered dockage...

 

[tiltrider1]

Dig out your drains and make sure the snowmelt doesn’t back up into the cabin.

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Couldn't stand it yesterday after 3 days of the white stuff. I dug out the cockpit and found the BBQ. T-Bones tasted real good.

Starting to melt already. The weight of the snow sunk part of the dock. I did clear ASD's decks. Bimini top was the hardest. Had the PFD on though!

Portland had a few issues with freezing rain and snow.

https://www.kptv.com/news/snow-and-...cle_cbed66f2-6e78-11eb-9cb5-1ba356ec4688.html

 

[HopCar]

What is this “Snow” of which you speak?

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

What is this “Snow” of which you speak?

Well you all from Florida think 60f is cold....

 

[Ken E.]

Keeping cockpit scupper drains clear of ice is a big deal, lest you have standing water where you don't want it. Also, ice can dam-up and create standing water over fuel fills on some boats.

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Keeping cockpit scupper drains clear of ice is a big deal, lest you have standing water where you don't want it. Also, ice can dam-up and create standing water over fuel fills on some boats.

Good points. Its raining now so the short blast was fun.......

 

[Birdman]

Get in the car, drive to Whistler and SKI!!!~!!!!

 

[PM]

Sorry, no "Whistler" for Americans, Canada is closed.

pete

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Sorry, no "Whistler" for Americans, Canada is closed.

pete

Avalanches too....

 

[OldDan1943]

Leaf blower to get the snow off.
Hot water wash down for the ice if you have significant ice build up that would affect the stability.

 

[markpierce]

Worst here is the occasional icey dock (but not pictured here):

 

[MurrayM]

Wusses.

About a decade ago we had snow in the fields around town for six months straight without melting away.

 

[Bigsalmonfish]

We made a family trip and shoveled...

 

[Lepke]

There were ice flows in the Columbia when I was a kid. I think the late 1950s.

 

[RonR]

Shovel, help others on the dock that cant shovel, shovel. Keep drains clean, stay clear of the ice/snow sheets falling off the coved docks. Help the old guys pull the dinks that hang off the sterns on the covered areas so they don't fill up with snow when the ice/snow sheets fall off. Make spicy hot chocolate. Enjoy as it wont last long (hot chocolate and the snow). Plan out the next garage/home/inside project.

 

[tdoriot]

I live near Portland. Somewhere in this area, a few covered moorages collapsed and sank a few boats. Having been here 50 years, That has happened a few times over the years. I'm happy my future boat seems to be safe in a boathouse elsewhere!

 

[Max Simmons]

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We made a family trip and shoveled...

Westerly?

 

[Birdman]

Grab a bottle of rum, and GO SKIING!!! What’s wrong with you jackwagons???

Snow is a gift from above, enjoy it!

 

[Spinner]

I got some good advice from The Boat Galley FB page: replace those deck fill o-rings annually! As their article pointed out, it doesn’t take much of a crack to let water into the fuel tanks...

Seems like an easy, cheap, preventative to me

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

The snow event of 2021 was short lived! Climbed to the mid-40s yesterday.

 

[GFC]

Since Friday we got about a foot in 3 snowfalls. So, Ya gets yur buns offa da couch and run dis machine...

 

[Bigsalmonfish]

..

 

[Bigsalmonfish]

Westerly?

Yes

 

[rgano]

Saw on the evening nude where some barge-like houseboats were in deep dodo with weight of snow capsizing them.

 

[FF]

"Shovel,"

Actually a stiff broom and a push broom are faster and do less harm.

 

[rslifkin]

"Shovel,"

Actually a stiff broom and a push broom are faster and do less harm.

For powdery snow, yes, sweeping goes a long way. They make a nice foam board on a stick device for dragging snow off higher surfaces that I love (keep one in every car). And for when you have to shovel, it's always worth having a plastic edged shovel around. They suck for most things, but they come in very handy when you need to shovel snow off of something that a metal edge might damage.

 

[High Wire]

Empty out the refrigerator.

 

[OldDan1943]

So cold, keep the frozen meat in the enclosed porch and the beer in the fridge to keep from freezing
I remember those days.
Bird dont fly because of the wind chill, roost or hide under something. Leave your garage door open, the crows will come in to keep you company.