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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 450600" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The snow we are having in the Pacific NW is nothing short of catastrophic.</p><p> </p><p>There is over a foot on the ground. We normally get 2 or 3 inches in an entire winter.</p><p> </p><p>Massive power outages, trees down, abandoned vehicles interfering with what few snowplows we do have.</p><p> </p><p>We went in today at 7:15 and at 3:00 we got paged to drop whatever we were doing and return to the building immediately. The roads were getting worse, at least 10 drivers got stuck and it was a 6 hr wait or longer for a tow truck.</p><p> </p><p>I spent 2 hours parked in the back of my truck with my cellphone, calling my customers up on the mountain to let them know that they could come meet me. Its all I can do. Even the ones with 4x4's said they couldnt make it down the hill. There is over 3 ft of snow up there. There are stops in my truck that have been there over a week now, and hundreds more backed up in trailers that are stranded up in Seattle or over in Hermiston. I should have delivered 150 stops today; I got off 24.</p><p> </p><p>We are on call tomorrow at 6:00 AM, they may decide to not even have us come in. Virtually all businesses are closed.</p><p> </p><p>A rumor I heard is that next week they will bring low-seniority drivers who would otherwise be laid off up from Eugene, Albany and Salem where the weather hasnt been as bad, to help us get caught up. They are members of a different local so the union will have to approve it. I hope they do. We are getting killed here.</p><p> </p><p>Our building is like a clogged toilet, only you cant shut the water off. We can scoop up the water and save it in cups and bowls and buckets, but eventually its all gonna have to go thru that drain and we are running out of places to stuff the packages in the meantime. And the water keeps getting higher and higher in the bowl....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 450600, member: 14668"] The snow we are having in the Pacific NW is nothing short of catastrophic. There is over a foot on the ground. We normally get 2 or 3 inches in an entire winter. Massive power outages, trees down, abandoned vehicles interfering with what few snowplows we do have. We went in today at 7:15 and at 3:00 we got paged to drop whatever we were doing and return to the building immediately. The roads were getting worse, at least 10 drivers got stuck and it was a 6 hr wait or longer for a tow truck. I spent 2 hours parked in the back of my truck with my cellphone, calling my customers up on the mountain to let them know that they could come meet me. Its all I can do. Even the ones with 4x4's said they couldnt make it down the hill. There is over 3 ft of snow up there. There are stops in my truck that have been there over a week now, and hundreds more backed up in trailers that are stranded up in Seattle or over in Hermiston. I should have delivered 150 stops today; I got off 24. We are on call tomorrow at 6:00 AM, they may decide to not even have us come in. Virtually all businesses are closed. A rumor I heard is that next week they will bring low-seniority drivers who would otherwise be laid off up from Eugene, Albany and Salem where the weather hasnt been as bad, to help us get caught up. They are members of a different local so the union will have to approve it. I hope they do. We are getting killed here. Our building is like a clogged toilet, only you cant shut the water off. We can scoop up the water and save it in cups and bowls and buckets, but eventually its all gonna have to go thru that drain and we are running out of places to stuff the packages in the meantime. And the water keeps getting higher and higher in the bowl.... [/QUOTE]
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