Portland's Inability To Handle Snow Amuses the Wall Street Journal

Unicycle-riding, bagpipe-playing, snow-shoveling techie defines city's approach to snowpocalypse.

January 23, 2017 at 9:34 am PST

The snowstorm is over, but the media reaction to Portland's inability to deal with powder continues.

Today's Wall Street Journal includes an anecdote at a goat-yoga business shutting down because of the weather. That tidbit is accompanied by the observation that "'The City That Works,' as it calls itself, doesn't much work when it snows," and this depiction of a local man seeking to do his part to keep the roads clear:

Yes, that's Portland.

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