Winter storm warning (Pittsburgh, Erie, Green Tree: house, neighborhood, camper)

[SammyKhalifa]

Yeah, it was definitely more than a "dusting" though, especially for those that live on any kind of hill.

[Craziaskowboi]

Some people say it's a dusting when it doesn't remind them of March 13, 1993.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

Last night was the first night since I've lived in Beechview that I had to leave my car in a parking lot on Banksville and walk home up the hill because the car wouldn't make it, so I wouldn't say the weather was nothing. About halfway home I realized I should have left the car at work and taken the bus, but by then it was too late.

Same here. I left for work at around 3 PM yesterday under the impression we were supposed to receive "a slushy accumulation less than one inch." In the end we must have had 3" or 3.5" at my home judging by what I shoveled last night. I saw how bad Paulowna Street here in Polish Hill looked and decided to park my car near the abandoned school and walk home. I moved my car around midnight when the salt trucks had time to catch up. I was making deliveries in my Civic all night last night until we closed early around 9 PM, and to say the roads were atrocious is an understatement.

The city was woefully underprepared to deal with yesterday's storm (as usual).

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by youngabe

I just keep telling myself that this winter has been beyond mild thus far. I would say last night was the most snow we've seen all in one event this entire season, eh?

True. We've been spoiled thus far. With that being said if last night is any indication of how understaffed our DPW is then I am DREADING working tonight when we're going to have freezing rain in addition to snow!

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

True. We've been spoiled thus far. With that being said if last night is any indication of how understaffed our DPW is then I am DREADING working tonight when we're going to have freezing rain in addition to snow!

Looks like 40s all next week.

[fleetiebelle]

Last year or the year before it felt like I was shoveling the sidewalk every day at least once. I hadn't touched the shovel for about two weeks until this morning, so I guess that's something.

[SteelCityRising]

To be fair to the DPW crews I think there were just WAY too many vehicles out on the roads past rush hour last night. I didn't notice a discernible "calming" of traffic on our surface streets until 8 PM, which means people were getting home from work and then proceeding to pointlessly prance around in the snow in their SUVs INSTEAD of just sitting tight at home to let the road crews do their work without being impeded by traffic. I didn't notice a single plow or salt truck out at rush-hour, which tells me the DPW director must have advised his crews to delay snow removal until traffic cleared. A better strategy would have been to pre-treat the roads with salt, but I've noticed we're not always very "forward-thinking" here on some issues.

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

To be fair to the DPW crews I think there were just WAY too many vehicles out on the roads past rush hour last night. I didn't notice a discernible "calming" of traffic on our surface streets until 8 PM, which means people were getting home from work and then proceeding to pointlessly prance around in the snow in their SUVs INSTEAD of just sitting tight at home to let the road crews do their work without being impeded by traffic. I didn't notice a single plow or salt truck out at rush-hour, which tells me the DPW director must have advised his crews to delay snow removal until traffic cleared. A better strategy would have been to pre-treat the roads with salt, but I've noticed we're not always very "forward-thinking" here on some issues.

Heck, forget forward thinking--even backward thinking would help. It's not like we've never had snow before: you'd think we could have figured something out by now.

[gg]

Why do people live here if they hate winter so much? I don't think I will ever understand that? MOVE!

[youngabe]

Originally Posted by SammyKhalifa

Looks like 40s all next week.

I am so excited for that. Winter is basically my version of hell. I love Pittsburgh and my entire life is here, so that's what prevents me from relocating to a warmer climate!