Weather Warning

[dewdropsonrosa]

If the relentless rain and flooding has gotten you down, the National Weather Service has a twist in store -- a winter storm watch has been posted for Western Pennsylvania for Thursday evening through Friday evening

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[_orz]

The Groundhog lied! It was supposed to be six weeks of spring, dammit!

[jtmulc]

Time to go hunting.

[jtmulc]

Not really concerned about that at this point

[guitarstrings]

No. Make up your damn mind weather. You get flooding OR snow...NOT BOTH. *shakes fist*

[sleepsong]

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[blk]

.. but because the bathtub only floods "on average, about once every two years," it's not worth it to PennDOT to fix. What city was that spokesman looking at? Hasn't it flooded pretty much every year in the past while, sometimes twice?

[xuth]

Note that it only floods as "rarely" as it does because there are upstream dams to control water flow. It would be much worse without those dams. Since at least some of the flood control dams on the Monongahela, the Allegheny and their tributaries weren't built at the time of the parkway's construction it boggles the mind that it (the parkway) would be built under such conditions.

Also, it has to be horrible on the road's foundations for the water to be trying to float it when the water is at the limits of the flood stage. This is the stated reason why the retaining walls around the parkway aren't raised any higher (ie the road would start to float off of it's foundations destroying itself).