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As we embark on a mighty big thaw, here’s a site to check for the water levels of nearby rivers and lakes. (Thanks for sharing Councilman Dowd.) The last major snow-related floods happened back in ’96 when there was actually less snow in the mountains than there is now.

CITY OF PITTSBURGH | Office of the Mayor Public Safety Updates Sent 02/25/2010 @ 12:07 pm MAYOR GETS CITY READY FOR SNOWSTORM; REMINDS PUBLIC TO STAY SAFE, TAKE PRECAUTIONS (PITTSBURGH) Feb. 25, 2010 – Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today urged City residents to prepare now for hazardous weather conditions in anticipation of another major winter storm [...]

DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2010 TIME: 9 am – 11 am LOCATION: PCRG Conference Room 1901 Centre Ave, Suite 200 Sponsored by PCRG, the goal of Safe Neighborhood Networks is to bring neighborhood public safety activists together to share strategies, discuss root causes of crime across communities, receive training from public safety experts, and build safe communities [...]

A little over a year ago, a request for an occupancy permit for a strip club on Carson Street was rejected unanimously by the City Planning Commission. That would have been the end of the story save for the fact that Pittsburgh City Council failed to hold a public hearing on the matter, which led Judge James of the [...]

Mike Madison over at Pittsblog wrote an interesting post exploring both sides of the Pittsburgh parking chair debate. Even as the snow melts, I continue to see a lot of chairs,  TV trays, garbage cans, benches, etc. reserving spaces for hours and even days around Mt. Washington. My fear is that people will start to think “Hey, if no [...]

If your comments and e-mails are any indication of the larger population, most people are directing any anger they have about the City’s response to this winter’s snow storms at the Mayor. I think this simplifies a complex issue, but I’m just reporting what we hear here at 15211. Although yesterday someone did send an [...]

Impassable streets in 19 neighborhoods were attended to by the City yesterday. Here’s the list. I can’t hold the suspense any longer–Mt. Washington isn’t on it. No one has reported why these neighborhoods were chosen. I don’t think these decisions were politically motivated. At least I hope they weren’t.  I had started to map each neighborhood back to [...]

Not sure where you all live, but our street still hasn’t been touched by a plow or piece of salt. I guess it’s considered tertiary so I’m thinking we’re looking at March until we get some help digging out. Anyway, I didn’t realize that this has been the snowiest February on record. According to the PG, [...]

UPDATE @ 3:30pm: 41E Mount Washington bus back in service. UPDATE @ 3:00pm: Rendell shuts down major interstates (83, 78, 81). READ MORE. UPDATE @ 1:45pm: still no 52 Allentown T service UPDATE @ 10:15am: The 52 Allentown light rail route is not operating. Port Authority is reporting delays of 30 to 45 minutes on [...]

Councilwoman Rudiak to lead snow removal task force Tuesday, February 09, 2010 By Timothy McNulty Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak will lead a council task force on the city’s snow removal performance, her office announced today. The effort may include an offer from Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon to design a snow operations [...]