Opinion Column True salvation, or just a shot in the arm? Andy Bryant is looking forward to an easing of Covid restrictions, but believes that the Church will face many more challenges in the coming months and years. When the first lockdown began there was much talk about how this could be an important moment of change. Many talked about a determination that when lockdown was lifted, we should not go back to our old ways. We could seize this moment and build back different and build back better. Twelve months later as we are still enduring our third lockdown and wondering when, and how, it will end, we just want our old lives back. We want to be able to do all the things we used to do. We fear too much has changed and not for the better. Businesses, shops, cafés pubs, arts venues, charities all teetering on the brink. Will anything of our old familiar lives remain? The will to build back better is lost in the desire to just get back to something, anything
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Tens of thousands of people remained without power in the Pacific Northwest after a winter storm blanketed the region with ice and snow and made travel treacherous. The storm is expected to continue to cause problems into Monday.
The storm has left as much as a foot of snow in the northern Willamette Valley and Southwest Washington.
Andy Bryant, with the National Weather Service, said Portland tied a record for single-day snowfall in February: “This will definitely be one remembered in the years to come.”
Freezing rain and ice had the biggest impact. About an inch of ice accumulated in the central Willamette Valley, bringing down trees in the Salem area.
Winter storm brings inches of snow to Clark County
Slippery conditions made for day of fun for sledders, day of woe for drivers, stranded public works plows By Calley Hair, Columbian staff writer, and
Published: February 13, 2021, 6:26pm
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5 Photos Madden Dreier, 6, slides headfirst on Saturday morning while playing in the snow at Sorenson Park in Felida. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The wintry storm that swept across the Pacific Northwest Thursday and Friday continued into Saturday afternoon, bringing snow accumulation as high as 12 inches in some areas of Clark County.
According to Andy Bryant, a hydrologist at the Portland office of the National Weather Service, the storm will likely peter out Saturday night in Portland and Clark County, with occasional flurries on Sunday and continued subfreezing temperatures.