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Ok everyone it stopped snowing, the sun is out, get out and shovel your sidewalk.  If you have any seniors living near you, do your good deed for the day.. This goes for both home owners and renters.

I think that it is an important reminder that we should all help our neighbors.  Doesn't matter if you own property or rent.  Lend a helping hand.  Everyone is not able to shovel their own sidewalks or dig out their cars.  My neighbor was a superhero today helping our entire block.  Kudos to you Shawn! 

Its crazy how we pay the city so much money and they cant even plow the damn streets i watched 4 salt trucks with plows on them drive down my street and they did put salt or even plow the road there just driving around for the hell of it

You can dig you car out, but there is no where to go.  the only street off Mt Wash that is open is Boggs Ave, all others including McArdle is closed. 

And my Comcast Cable TV has been out since Friday, and they can not reconnect it until this Thursday…Thank you Comcast for great customer service.  They accidentally disconnected it…and no one has said they are sorry yet.   So three days stuck in the house with no Comcast Cable TV…nice, huh???   Guess I am better off than those without electric and heat or water..

When is the weather supposed to warm up?   (remember I do not have cable )  There is just too much snow, when you dig out your car where do you put the snow???

I finally got off the mountain this morning.  51 is open at Woodruff and Boggs, but McArdle is still closed.  I hope they get to the secondary streets today.  Downtown is a complete mess,  but I made it to work in Cranberry without incident.

Landlord – the news folks are calling for 6 more inches of snow on Tuesday PM.  Don't think we'll be getting much of a break for a while.  

Foodland didn't have much as of yesterday, so hopefully they'll get a shipment in today (specifically bread – though they did have some at the bakery).  

Thanks to all my neighbors who helped us dig out and push the car when we got stuck.  What a great neighborhood.  

Good luck everyone. 

Can anybody tell me how the roads are up there? I have been stuck at a friends house since friday and I want to go home to see my daughter. I have a 95 rodeo rear wheel drive, I want to be safe but I hear that only greenleaf is open. Can you please provide me with accurate updated information. Thank you for your time I do really appreciate it

Woodruff/Boggs/Warrington to Beltzhoover to Boggs are the only ways on/off the Mount.  Earlier looked like they had made progress on McArdle, but it still wasn't open when I last went past.  Upper Kearsage (intersects with Grandview) still not plowed, and sort of clear/sort of horrible for driving.  They plowed the other side of Kearsarge though (intersects with Belonda).  MAIN roads on the Mount are somewhat clear…but even if you get up here, there is NOWHERE to park, other than the Foodland lot and/or the municpal lot across the street.  Over Boggs/Beltzhoover way, lots of folks still not dug out, side streets unplowed/untreated.  No wonder there's no school tomorrow.  Power outages are still sporadic up here, so that's another concern…

Anyone else notice all of those power lines sagging under fallen trees on Woodruff near the Wabash tunnel?  Lovely lovely lovely. 

The city is a joke, anyone with common sense would know the way to clear the streets is to lay down salt when the snow is falling. Salt melts SNOW! Then you don't have to pile it 90 feet high in the middle of the street. It would be nice to see Ulysses cleared rather than a place where you can see how many loops your car can do in a single spot. If anyone with a plow is kind enough stop by Ulysses, the residents would appreciate it.

Post edited 9:12 am – February 10, 2010 by sammykhalifa

Hey guys,

I live on West Sycamore, and have been snowed out all week.  I was gone during the weekend, and then basically told not to bother trying to come back because of the conditions. 

Have things gotten ANY better?  I just want to go live in my apartment again.

Hey "Resident". Are you employed? I mean do you have to be concerned about making money that requires being able to travel to your place of employment during the week? Everyone I know that doesn't live on Mt Washington is making it to their destinations quite alright. Our problem is that every road in or out of Mt. Washington is being neglected. Plow Woodruff and everything should be good. Everyone wishes they could "go with the flow" but living in New England for 20 years I realized Pittsburgh is terrible at handling snow storms. Everyone just waits for the snow to fall and then "attempts" to clean up, where as other places plow as it falls so it's not an issue when the storm passes. As far as parking, they are city streets, you snooze you lose.