Hero Portland-Area Woman Makes Five-Foot-Tall Snow Lady

Apparently, it snowed this morning!

As our office is in Slabtown, we may have been some of the only people in Portland not to see it in person, but based on the heavy incidence of #PortlandSnow on Twitter and Instagram this morning, it's clear we've gotten a light dusting. Looks like my creepy Uber driver who told me it would snow for him, no matter what, was right! (Even though he was so, so wrong.)

Portland-area cartoonist Jennie Breeden even gathered enough snow to build a five-foot-tall snowman in the front yard of her Bethany home.

Breeden was about to go for a run when she saw giant snowflakes falling from the temperate Portland sky. Alertly taking note that the flakes were melting quickly, she knew she didn't have much time. Acting fast, she grabbed as much of the snow as she could find, heroically rolled it into big balls and built a snow woman.

She made a time lapse of the construction:

"Unfortunately, I didn't have enough snow to anchor it right. I'm from Virginia and I know how you're supposed to anchor it, and now she's quickly falling over," Breeden told WW. "I might've stolen a little bit of the neighbor's snow."

The snow woman has grass for hair, a leaf for a boutonnière and rocks for eyes. She was not given a name. Breeden says she is slowly melting.

Laurel McCoy, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says all the snow has turned to mostly rain for the day, but we may still be seeing some snow up in the West Hills and above 500 feet. This evening, she says, there's not likely to be a lot of snow, if any.

The next chance for snow will be late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

"It's not going to be a good day on Thursday," says McCoy. "It'll start as snow and then turn to freezing rain and that'll hit the ground and turn to ice."

Anyway, here's a bunch of local #snow pics.