08-19-2020, 11:42 PM
I live outside of Portland.
It used to be a weird, quirky city filled with some great restaurants and Powell's Books. (I love that place!)
But whenever I'm in Portland (usually one week out of the month) I stay at a secure hotel, eat at the hotel, take the interstate to the hospitals where I need to work, eat at the hospitals, then go right back to the hotel using the interstate.
I avoid the surface roads always.
Last time I was there (3 weeks ago) I was awoken several times over a couple of nights by flash-bangs the police were using to break up the riots.
One morning I found what happened to be a can of mace and several cell phones in some bushes by the hotels smoking area.
Some rioters looked to ditch their phones and hide at the hotel.
Cops still tracked them and arrested them.
Businesses are not just boarded up.
They are leaving Portland.
They can't afford the shutdowns, the lootings, the riots.
This will be looking like Detroit in a few weeks.
It's such a damned waste.
It used to be a weird, quirky city filled with some great restaurants and Powell's Books. (I love that place!)
But whenever I'm in Portland (usually one week out of the month) I stay at a secure hotel, eat at the hotel, take the interstate to the hospitals where I need to work, eat at the hospitals, then go right back to the hotel using the interstate.
I avoid the surface roads always.
Last time I was there (3 weeks ago) I was awoken several times over a couple of nights by flash-bangs the police were using to break up the riots.
One morning I found what happened to be a can of mace and several cell phones in some bushes by the hotels smoking area.
Some rioters looked to ditch their phones and hide at the hotel.
Cops still tracked them and arrested them.
Businesses are not just boarded up.
They are leaving Portland.
They can't afford the shutdowns, the lootings, the riots.
This will be looking like Detroit in a few weeks.
It's such a damned waste.
"I be ridin' they be hatin'."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln