If you can make it to PDX, the airlines are ready for you. Planes are still taking off and landing at Portland International Airport even as the metro area enters its second day of winter conditions.

Here are the details from the Port of Portland: Port of Portland reopened the south runway today at Portland International Airport, following the complete reconstruction of the 11,000-foot runway.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Portland International Airport is readying its runways for the snow and ice storm forecast to hit the Willamette Valley on Thursday and Friday. Port of Portland ...

Airport runways need to be smooth and flat so planes can take-off and land safely. But if the ground under the runways is sinking, that surface can dip and crack, requiring expensive repairs.

SAID THEY DO NOT COMMENT ON ONGOING CASES. IN AUGUSTA, I'M JACOB MURPHY FOR MAINE'S TOTAL COVERAGE A SMALL PLANE -- SLIDING OFF THE RUNWAY AT THE PORTLAND JETPORT THIS AFTERNOON... CAUSING A DELAY.

But if you squint out your window seat, just past the runways at Portland International Airport, you might spot a team keeping watch over an entirely different kind of traffic — the feathered kind.