The nearly 11 inches (28 centimeters) that fell in Portland amounted to the second snowiest day in the city's history. The National Weather Service, which had predicted only a slim chance of significant snow, planned to review its work. Kim Upham endured a 13-hour ordeal as snow brought to a standstill the traffic on U.S. 26, a mountainous highway that connects Portland to the coast. The weather service originally predicted a 20% chance that Portland would get more than 2 inches (5 centimeters) of snow. The forecast changed rapidly as the storm approached, said Colby Neuman, a weather service meteorologist in Portland.
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