Dateline Pittsburgh: The Blizzard of '93 10th Anniversary Special
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2025
- This 2003 special takes a look back 10 years prior to how Pittsburgh and its people handled the Blizzard of '93. This tremendous superstorm affected people from Canada to Honduras, with most American citizens experiencing severe blizzard conditions during St Patrick's Day weekend. WPXI's staff tells stories from that weekend, along with some information about how these types of storms are predicted.
Wooooow these car commercials are a blast from the past man haven't heard them since I was like 5
I will never forget that year when I was working at Great Valley Foodland on US 30 in North Versailles the day before the storm, and my grandmother called me from the hospital and have me get groceries for the weekend while I was living with her in her house. Every hour I would shovel her front sidewalk so the mailman can deliver her mail, and her driveway from the garage down to the alley.
I bet you used to shop at the Ames across the street where the goodwill is now
@@mikec3949 I used to shop there with my grandmother
@@deandevirgilio3068 I remember shopping there with my mom at some point. I can't remember what year it was honestly but it was probably the 90s. I used to live in N. Versailles but now live in Monroeville.
For the Blizzard of '93 I was 10 years old living with my grandparents in Squirrel Hill. Schools closed for 2 days while I got to go sledding and be an absolute idiot playing in the snow lol. Other events that I'll always remember is the tornado on Mt. Washington, the severe storm that killed someone at Kennywood in 2002 and the snow storm in 2010 then the ice storm the very next weekend.
Also, the blizzard of 2010 left us buried as well. We got 26 inches overnight in New Brighton, Pennsylvania and I had a Cadillac. I dug my car out, but my keys fell out of my pocket into the snow and it took me 2 hours to find them. I tried to get to Monroeville to work, but I couldn't make it to Interstate 376 that day, so I went back home. I still have pictures from that day and it's March of 2021.
Ya dropped ur keys into the snow...WoW....lol
Don't drop your keys, stupid.
You would have found your keys much faster if you were lucky enough to have a metal detector.🔑
I was living in North Versailles, PA with my grandmother on this day. I remember this day.
I just moved here in 92 and we got hammered with this blizzard down here in Atlanta. I can't even imagine how it was way up north. And I'm from PA. Never seen anything like it
Coming from the Chicago area I know what it is like when you get a couple of feet of snow in a urban area but where I live at 8400 elevation in Colorado now the snow amounts are considerably higher. In March of 2003 we had a 3 day storm that dropped 96 inches of snow where I live and one spot nearby got 11'6"(138 inches) in those same 3 days. Herds of Elk were killed when stuck in that deep snow. Mother nature is pretty crazy sometimes. By the way I am a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan!
I was a freshman at Point Park College in downtown Pittsburgh at the time of this blizzard. I was living in the dorms. Looking back, it was some of the best times in my life.
I was 11 years old at the time and remember this blizzard well, there was a creek behind the house I grew up in and it froze up good that year, the ice was very, very thick so when the weather warmed up and all that ice finally broke up and started moving down the creek well obviously the creek flooded into our backyards and when it subsided it left massive chunks of ice laying all throughout our yard, no joke we still had ice in our yard until dam near July, it was crazy, we started swimming in the creek before all the ice melted from the yard, I'll never forget that blizzard, or the blizzard of 96.
Lived in extreme Eastern North Carolina then, measured one snowdrift eighteen feet high and winds in the area had topped 100 miles an hour. I walked five miles round trip to care for two horses, took from 4 pm to 1130 to make trip. It was the most brutal trek of my life, but I loved the challenge.
I worked for Bell Atlantic downtown Pgh. and got to do the weather updates on the phone for when folks called the weather and I worked that week end and my boyfriend had a four wheel drive truck so he came to get me saturday and I told mgt to get folks in hotels and to order food...I was happy I was off on monday, tried to leave but stayed home and won a large prize!
Bell Atlantic. The NOSTALGIA!!!
Did you marry that boyfriend?
I was here I remember this. Snow up to your window sill, loved it.
In that year i was living in yabucoa puerto rico it was sunny outside and highs in the mid 80s i must have been at the beach that day thank God i mist out on it but i remember the blizzard of 1978 in Framingham mass over 5feet of snow we couldn't get out for weeks
The news said the pressure for that blizzard was lower than hurricane Andrew the summer before. Andrew was a cat5 in '92.
So I lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania during this blizzard, but I was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania and I currently live in New Brighton, Pennsylvania (and have for the last 21 years), but I remember this blizzard well. We got 28 inches overnight and we got an additional 9 inches the next day. We were lucky and didn't lose power or water, but we couldn't go anywhere or do anything. I had alot of fun on my sled with 10 foot high snow drifts on each side of my driveway. I was 10 years old when that happened.
Was on a farm in a valley in Pennsylvania. We measured 65 inches in the driveway.
Im from youngstown ohio, and we also were hit with that. I was in seventh grade. I loved it cause no school and i just loved the winter back as a kid and playing backyard football in the snow!! Now days kids never go outside especially in the cold. Lol
Yup me too football awesome in the snow. I'm from PA.but I had just moved down to Georgia in 92. So I loved it when we got nailed
We remember the Blizzard of 93 here in Mount Union Pennsylvania.
I was in the 8th grade in 93. Where I was, it was all I’ve storms. We were out of school for a month.
It was the whole east coast.we got hit went to school for 1 hour got dismissed and went home in 8 inches of snow that was around 8 am.
I was 11 when this happened, it was a great time making money shoveling sidewalks/driveways, and jumping off the back roof into big ass snowdrifts. What a time to be alive 💯
Where was this ?
2:20 what about the amtrak services? I bet they stopped running trains as well.
I was 3 years old....in florida......prob sweating in my dipar
lol
The blizzard of 93 gave us a daughter 😎
This doesnt come close to 1978
I always little drizzle compared to the Blizzard of 78
2 feet of snow is no big deal by today's standards.
This sounds like fun i hate ppl so being inside for a cpl days sounds great its been 8 months into covid 19 n it hasent got old yet i lovd it!
202 just me ok 😭🤷🏾♀️
What he say lol
I was 9 at the time living in wi
PIZZA WAS GOOOOOOOOD IN 93
Ol cocaine kev😂😂😂😂
HE USE TO STAY WIT THE POWDER NOSE LOL
The Pittsburgh blizzard was a true crime story?
(That's because "Dateline NBC" today is a true-crime documentary series).
The commercials are stupid as hell. I just broke my TV. Hey michalena