More than two dozen Portland streets closed due to icy, slick conditions

More than two dozen streets in Portland were closed on Friday due to slick, unsafe conditions or because vehicles were blocking the road.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A day of sunshine and temperatures just above freezing helped thaw many roads in the Portland-metro area, but there are still plenty of icy spots.

Drivers found an unpredictable mix of packed snow, ice and some bare spots on local freeways. On Interstate 84 in Northeast Portland, conditions changed dramatically within just a few hundred feet, from wet pavement to a washboard like surface of ice.

“It’s really slick,” explained one truck driver. His double trailer truck got

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