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PORTLAND — Scattered snow showers fell in Southwest Portland and in the Troutdale area early Tuesday morning, with the wintry mix expected to continue through the day.
Monday night, scattered snow showers were reported across higher elevations of the Metro Portland region and then flakes fell in areas around 1,000 feet in the Willamette Valley early Tuesday. Some residents even saw hail and wind, while others experienced heavy rain.
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"Believe it or not, we’re seeing some snow/wet snow and even some ice pellets this morning," KGW Meteorologist Nick Allard said early Tuesday. "The snow level is ranging between 500 to 1,000 feet. We’ve seen snow already on Slyvan and even up at Skyline."
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In Tigard, high winds toppled trees, including one that landed dangerously close to a home.
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Snow was also forecast for all Cascade passes and also in the Coast Range.
Allard added that the next round of moisture will likely hold off until late Tuesday, and it will be a rainy system.
"The good news is, our temperatures should be above freezing everywhere later Tuesday by the time the rain starts," he explained. "However, there could be some pockets of wet snow before becoming all rain. The coast range, the foothills, and the cascades will all get a healthy helping of new snow as the snow level rises to about 2,000 feet."
PORTLAND, Ore. — A winter storm heading for the Cascades threatened to hamper efforts to find a hiker missing in the Gorge. Katherine Heuther, who’s 24th birthday was Monday, left for a day hike near Table Mountain on Thursday and hasn’t been seen since.
Searchers were concerned about chilly overnight conditions as a new storm brought snow into the Columbia River Gorge.
The last contact from the Portland State University student was a text message she send to a roommate around 3 p.m. Thursday, saying she was headed out for a day hike and expected to be back home around 8′30 p.m. that night.
Heuther’s roommates reported her overdue to Portland Police on March 4. Her vehicle was found at the Pacific Crest Trailhead near the Bonneville Dam just across the river in Washington. That’s the starting point of a popular 7-mile hike to Table Mountain.
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Skamania County Sheriff’s deputies found her car early March 5 but were unaware that it belonged to a missing Portland woman. Nearly a day would pass before the connection was made until a missing persons’ report was filed by Heuther’s family on Saturday night, March 6.
Heuther was not thought to be carrying any communications devices; her cell phone was in her car, Undersheriff Dave Cox said. He did not know how prepared she’d been for the hike. Her roommates said she was an experienced hiker but were not sure whether she had a backpack.
The only other clue so far was a credit card receipt with Heuther’s name on it, found by another hiker on the trail near Table Mountain.
By Monday afternoon, the search for Huether had expanded to include two helicopters, nine dog teams, more than two dozen search-and-rescue specialists as well as friends.
The search was focused on a a 12-square-mile area where the Pacific Crest Trail heads north into Washington state, and where Heuther’s car was found, empty, early March 5. Timeline’ Kate Heuther search and rescue
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Cox told KGW on Sunday that his office did not learn of a missing person report until Saturday, March 6, at approximately 9 p.m. — about 20 hours after a deputy first ran a registration check on Heuther’s car.
"The Skamania deputy received notification that the vehicle registration owner she had checked the previous evening was now showing as a missing person through the Portland Police [Bureau] through a missing persons report … " and a search was immediately organized, initially focused in the immediate area, then widened and extended Sunday morning to include resources from police and sheriff’s offices spanning both sides of the Gorge, Cox said.
Air support with heat-seeking radar was requested after a hiker on Sunday evening found a credit card receipt belonging to Heuther, searchers said. The receipt was found on Table Mountain.
The U.S. Air Force and Washington National Guard dispatched helicopters Monday afternoon as the storm front moved east. Snow was reported in Cascade passes and had fallen as far north as Seattle, although Gorge temperatures hovered in the low 40s, according to KGW First Alert Storm Team meteorologists.
Heuther’s parents live in New Jersey.
PORTLAND — An employee at a small Portland market said he narrowly avoided being shot during a robbery on Monday night.
The Portland Police Bureau said that at 5′21 p.m., they were called to the Woodstock Market at SE 86th Ave. & Woodstock Blvd. on a report of a robbery. One bullet was fired into the cigarette case behind the counter of the market, according to police. The market employee said the bullet grazed his hair, but he wasn’t hit by the bullet or injured otherwise.
Police said the robbers got away with money and cigarettes. Police are looking for at least two suspects involved in the robbery, but there were no descriptions of the robbers available Monday evening.
A fire official said a brief wind storm left a school bus trapped between two downed power lines Monday afternoon in the Clark County community of Hockinson.
Police said they are looking for a man who robbed a Beaverton coffee stand while wearing a gorilla mask.