Snow Way: Can you dig it?
February 11, 2010 by Ashley Goodsell
Filed under 2010 Spring, Current News, Featured
By Point Park News Service
The last thing Ohio native Janet McCloskey expected she would witness during her one-year program at the Art Institute was a blizzard. Waking up Monday morning to an email notifying all Art Institute students that school was canceled set in a sense of relief for McCloskey. The Photoshop project due for Monday mornings graphic design class was anywhere near close to being finished. The sense of release quickly vanished as her power went out in her Crawford Square apartment.
“At first I was really excited but once my power went out I got really scared. I’m not from Pittsburgh and I’ve only been here since August,” McCloskey said.
McCloskey, along with approximately 3,600 people, where left without power as the blizzard continued to bring heaps of snow to the city and the surrounding areas.
“The snow just kept coming and getting worse. I made arrangements to stay with one of my friends from school who had power, “ McCloskey said. “I knew it would be dangerous to drive, but I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t know when my power would come back on.”
Luckily, like so many Pittsburgh residents McCloskey had a place to stay until her power was restored. Fellow Art Institute student and Pittsburgh native, Becky Roth was more than happy to host her friend.
“We were so lucky to have power, I was happy to have Janice stay until everything started to clear up,” said Roth. “I can’t believe how much snow we got it’s almost as bad as the blizzard we had in 1993.”
Caption: Travelers avoid some of the few main roads that were cleared of snow due to downed power lines such as these on Nadine Road in Verona, PA on Saturday, Feb. 6th 2010. The snowstorm, ending up with nicknames such as “Snowmageddon” and the “Snowpocalypse,” left the Pittsburgh area covered in 21 inches of snow. By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service.
A snowman built in front of the snow covered dinosaur outside of the Carnegie Library in Oakland on Saturday, Feb. 6th, 2010. Although the snowstorm covered the Pittsburgh area in 21 inches of snow, people still left their traces in the snow by sundown. By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service.
A pedestrian and her dog march along the un-shoveled sidewalk along Boulevard of the Allies in Oakland on Saturday, Feb. 6th, 2010. The snowstorm, ending up with nicknames such as “Snowmageddon” and the “Snowpocalypse,” left the Pittsburgh area covered in 21 inches of snow. By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service.
The sign outside of Phipps Conservatory in Oakland that reads “The Tropics” against a backdrop of the second snowstorm in Pittsburgh, PA on Wednesday, Feb. 10th, 2010. The parking lot for Phipps sat vacant except for a few people unloading sleds and snowboards to play in the snow on Flagstaff Hill. By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service.
The sun sets over Schenley Park in Oakland on Saturday, Feb. 6th, 2010. The “Oval” part of the park was paved with sled tracks by sundown after the storm covered the Pittsburgh area in 21 inches of snow. By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service.
Before anyone can completely clean up from the weekend storm, Downtown Pittsburgh gets hit with a second wave. Photos by Shelva Ulery, Point Park News Service.
The Monongahela River flooding The Mon Wharf Parking Lot as well as the “bathtub” portion of the Parkway East in downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Jan. 26th, 2010. Due to flood waters, The Mon Wharf Parking Lot was closed to commuters and the highway was shut down before 9am, causing traffic to be backed up along the parkway most of the day.
By Leigh Ann Letta, Point Park News Service
Snow Storm 2010
By: Briley Braine, For Point Park News Service
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PennDOT workers work through the night to clear out water covering I-376 in bound to downtown after the Mon Warf flooded on Tuesday, Jan 26. By Bethany Foltz, Point Park News Service.
PennDOT workers work through the night to clear out water covering I-376 in bound to downtown after the Mon Warf flooded on Tuesday, Jan 26. By Bethany Foltz, Point Park News Service.
Students at Point Park University participate in snow fights to recover from cabin fever after more than a foot of snowfall. By Bethany Foltz, Point Park News Service.
Local fire stations responded to hundreds of emergencies with in the first day of the February snowfall, but they too dealt with the difficulties of the storm.
