A couple uses skis to cross a snowy street in downtown Portland, Ore. on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. A weekend winter storm that buried northern Oregon and slowed its largest city to a crawl was expected to let up some after spilling into the workweek.click to open
Workers install snow chains on the tires of a bus on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, in downtown Portland, Ore. In Portland, many buses and some light-rail MAX trains ran, though irregularly. The line to the airport closed in the morning because of frozen switches. A weekend winter storm that buried northern Oregon and slowed its largest city to a crawl was expected to let up some after spilling into the workweekclick to open