Protecting your home against ‘atmospheric rivers’ 🌧️

Sandbags! Get Your Sandbags!

With this recent deluge of rainy weather, there are flood watches in effect through today. Portland has set sandbag-filling locations across the city. If you’re in a flood-prone area, you can grab sandbags at Lents Park, Gabriel Park, or SE 111th Ave and Harold St. The bags are free, but BYO shovel. Fun! [KPTV]

Plows and Salt Trucks’ Budget Gets a Boost

Gov. Tina Kotek and legislative leaders announced they’re pumping an extra $19 million into ODOT to keep roads clear this winter. The money will be used to buy 10 new snowplow trucks, deicer and salt, and cover overtime costs for workers, among other things. ODOT is still facing a massive budget shortfall. [Oregonian]

Subsidizing Middle-Income Homes?

Kotek's Housing Production Advisory Council is considering a proposal to spend $300 million to help finance 10,000 units of middle-income or workforce housing. That’s defined as housing for residents making between 60% and 120% of an area's median income. It’s one of several housing ideas the Oregon Legislature could take up during next February’s short session. [Portland Business Journal 🔒]

• Related: Why It’s So Damn Hard to Fix Housing in Oregon [City Cast Portland 🎧]

🎅 Santa Clones | Through Jan. 1 | 4 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Portland’s favorite annual holiday hunt is back! Hundreds of small Santa Claus statues are hidden somewhere on the Eastside. Check the link for hints. [Free, Central Eastside (we think?)]

🎹 Hania Rani | Wednesday | 8:30 p.m.

The Polish pianist and composer says her most recent record “Ghosts” is about “life and death, light and darkness, real and unreal.” Sounds like a chill Wednesday night! [$39.40, Eliot]

🎶 The Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition | Friday | 6 p.m.

Grab your friends and compete in Portland’s premiere holiday caroling throwdown. Top caroling crew wins $1,000. [Free, Downtown]

Remembering Old Portland with a Punk Rock Icon

In honor of our show’s one-year anniversary—which is today!—we’re going back to the very beginning with our very first guest: Toody Cole of the legendary Portland rock band Dead Moon. She talks with host Claudia Meza about the golden days of DIY Portland and how she’s watched the city change throughout the years.