I was attending The Art Institute of Pittsburgh at the time, it was closed down for over a week because of the flooding, and when the school was finally reopened many of my classes were relocated because most of my Special Effects Makeup classes were in the basement, which was still flooded. Thanks for sharing this video. :)
This always blows my mind. I may have been 11 but a flood is something you remember. I remember seeing it rain when I was in a restaurant with a friend's family on Mt Washington overlooking the point. But that's it. My sister was in Pitcarin that was bad business there. I was clearly kept safe and unaware till I got back to my parents in turtle creek. Monday maybe? Seriously always a surprise
I did sound for those symphony gigs. Great story about that stage. As the summer shows progressed they'd do early morning rehearsals with a load in at 7:30 AM. I'd get there before everyone and go in through the back door using a key. I began to notice that every time I'd do this, I'd hear something crawling on the chain link "curtain". Figured it was a raccoon or some other animal. So one day I had one of our riggers - we called him Jungle Jim - and a city cop stand out front as I unlocked the door. I hear the jingling and then "FREEZE!". I'm thinking why would a cop tell a raccoon to freeze? So I get out front in time to see the cops talking away some homeless guy. I send Jim up to see what the heel he was doing up there. Jim comes down and says, "You recall that gray material you saw in the reed player's reed water cups? Well the guy was sleeping on one of the wooden light fixtures and defecating on the another one... been doing it for while since it was dryed up and gray..." Oh my god I thought... wow. I didn't have the heart to tell the orchestra's manager when they showed up. I did tell one of the IATSE stage hands assigned to them. I did tell him to get the reed players to start using lids on the cups. I think he told them something about paint/rust or similar...
love the music and sound track with this LOL, I took a bunch of pictures of this flood, that floating barge restaurant i think it was I took a few shots of that and got 3 rivers stadium in the background really cool pics. I uploaded them to the Pittsburgh pictures facebook group. if anyone is interested. So many memories. I was lucky, just about under a block away from where the water reached on 44th street. The river flooded up to the railroad tracks, it was really something to see.
I remember when I was working at the Fulton Building during the 1996 ice storm/flood watching the ice flows on the Allegheny and then an entire section from the Fox Chapel Yacht Club - with boats and all - just smash into the Sixth Street Bridge pier in a ball of splinters. Then watching the Wind Symphony barge float up onto the flooded cars parked on the wharf and just sit on top of them when the water receded . th-cam.com/video/KyIHoZcynls/w-d-xo.html Watching the ice flow down the Allegheny kinda made you motion sick... In the Fulton Building (now the Renaissance ) we had a basement parking garage and under that a sub-basement that used to take sewage to the river. About mid 20th century ALCOSAN had put a pipe in and capped off the giant pipe that went to the sub basement. Well, the cement cap blew off and it looked like a geyser coming out of it when the flood came up the thru the sub basement. We had fish flopping around in the garage. I recall Ricky Stern (building owner) laughing about it.
I remember working in an office building right next to the Allegheny River. I was one of the few that got into the building early. Ice and mud were surrounding our building.
Yeah. It was the perfect combo of snow and it got too warm too fast to melt and then the rain made it so much worse. I think if it would have got warm but without the rain it wouldn’t have been as bad
nah I disagree. 60 degrees by itself isnt melting giant piles of snow in parking lots in 48 hours. It was getting 3 inches of rain in 3 hours that melted that snow. If the temperature was low enough, that would of been a blizzard for the history books. an inch of rain = 12-13 inches of snow. We would of got 3 feet. The hard rain melted the snow piles so fast. 3 inches of rain on a normal day and normal river height will flood the wharf in the city , which doesnt take much. Now throw in all that melted snow. My city didnt help, we stored all our snow from the main streets right next to the river next to our little league and pony league baseball fields.. We had 25-30 foot piles. That snow is there slowly melting until late April or even May I have seen if it is high enough, slowly melting, kids practicing right next to it, we havent had a bad year of snow in awhile but 96 was one of them. That torrential rain broke it all down in a day . Every town up river contributed, it was just a perfect storm as they say but the rain was the main factor. We had 48 hours over 50 degrees, that isnt breaking down giant snow piles by itself. Put a solid block of ice in your sink and let it sit, it will take a LONG time to melt, turn the faucet on it full blast it melts much faster. Thats what happened, but the "faucet" was on way faster than a sink for 3 hours. @@davidford3968
I was attending The Art Institute of Pittsburgh at the time, it was closed down for over a week because of the flooding, and when the school was finally reopened many of my classes were relocated because most of my Special Effects Makeup classes were in the basement, which was still flooded. Thanks for sharing this video. :)
It will be 20 years that you will never forget when the flood swamped Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This always blows my mind. I may have been 11 but a flood is something you remember. I remember seeing it rain when I was in a restaurant with a friend's family on Mt Washington overlooking the point. But that's it. My sister was in Pitcarin that was bad business there. I was clearly kept safe and unaware till I got back to my parents in turtle creek. Monday maybe? Seriously always a surprise
I was 9 when this happened, but I’ve never forgotten it. One of the oddest things I ever witnessed was seeing the point flooded like that
I did sound for those symphony gigs. Great story about that stage. As the summer shows progressed they'd do early morning rehearsals with a load in at 7:30 AM. I'd get there before everyone and go in through the back door using a key.
I began to notice that every time I'd do this, I'd hear something crawling on the chain link "curtain". Figured it was a raccoon or some other animal.
So one day I had one of our riggers - we called him Jungle Jim - and a city cop stand out front as I unlocked the door.
I hear the jingling and then "FREEZE!". I'm thinking why would a cop tell a raccoon to freeze?
So I get out front in time to see the cops talking away some homeless guy. I send Jim up to see what the heel he was doing up there.
Jim comes down and says, "You recall that gray material you saw in the reed player's reed water cups? Well the guy was sleeping on one of the wooden light fixtures and defecating on the another one... been doing it for while since it was dryed up and gray..."
Oh my god I thought... wow.
I didn't have the heart to tell the orchestra's manager when they showed up. I did tell one of the IATSE stage hands assigned to them. I did tell him to get the reed players to start using lids on the cups. I think he told them something about paint/rust or similar...
Decent work! Thanks a lot. :D
Thank you! I was lucky to get this VHS tape at the University of Pittsburgh. The audio hiss was how it was on the tape, not due to my capture deck.
I remember this! I was a teen! Wow how times have changed
love the music and sound track with this LOL, I took a bunch of pictures of this flood, that floating barge restaurant i think it was I took a few shots of that and got 3 rivers stadium in the background really cool pics. I uploaded them to the Pittsburgh pictures facebook group. if anyone is interested. So many memories. I was lucky, just about under a block away from where the water reached on 44th street. The river flooded up to the railroad tracks, it was really something to see.
No thanks.
My grandpas construction company helped clean up Pittsburgh after all that chaos
Congratulations
Respect bro I'm from the burgh
I remember when I was working at the Fulton Building during the 1996 ice storm/flood watching the ice flows on the Allegheny and then an entire section from the Fox Chapel Yacht Club - with boats and all - just smash into the Sixth Street Bridge pier in a ball of splinters. Then watching the Wind Symphony barge float up onto the flooded cars parked on the wharf and just sit on top of them when the water receded . th-cam.com/video/KyIHoZcynls/w-d-xo.html
Watching the ice flow down the Allegheny kinda made you motion sick...
In the Fulton Building (now the Renaissance ) we had a basement parking garage and under that a sub-basement that used to take sewage to the river. About mid 20th century ALCOSAN had put a pipe in and capped off the giant pipe that went to the sub basement. Well, the cement cap blew off and it looked like a geyser coming out of it when the flood came up the thru the sub basement. We had fish flopping around in the garage. I recall Ricky Stern (building owner) laughing about it.
I had this on VHS! lol
Whats that mans name at the fort pitt museum?
If you had to find a negative about living in Pittsburgh, it's the unknown weather.
cambria county flooded pretty bad too this same time
cottodabodykill .....Cambria county? That’s a pothole, right?
so many records were destroyed in the flood,
Part 2?
Should have showed up on the right hand side with the related videos, but here is the video. th-cam.com/video/KyIHoZcynls/w-d-xo.html
I remember working in an office building right next to the Allegheny River. I was one of the few that got into the building early. Ice and mud were surrounding our building.
I remember that!! :D
Good couple years ago my 4th grade teacher put this on for a lesson on it. Kinda nostalgic
"It's slippery out here, yaugh!"
That's Pittsburgh all right.
Should be slippy not slippery
Isn't yaugh the base of the shaft? Shit yinz jag offs don't know much
There's always a blizzard in pgh on my birthday (jan 7) lol
no
Nelphoto ....who cares
Move !!
I was at Townsend Dam(New Brighton, PA) on Ohio River. Insane. I doubt I ever see the river that high again. Biblical.
lukkyluciano .....not quite biblical Einstein
Yeah. It was the perfect combo of snow and it got too warm too fast to melt and then the rain made it so much worse. I think if it would have got warm but without the rain it wouldn’t have been as bad
nah I disagree. 60 degrees by itself isnt melting giant piles of snow in parking lots in 48 hours. It was getting 3 inches of rain in 3 hours that melted that snow. If the temperature was low enough, that would of been a blizzard for the history books. an inch of rain = 12-13 inches of snow. We would of got 3 feet. The hard rain melted the snow piles so fast. 3 inches of rain on a normal day and normal river height will flood the wharf in the city , which doesnt take much. Now throw in all that melted snow. My city didnt help, we stored all our snow from the main streets right next to the river next to our little league and pony league baseball fields.. We had 25-30 foot piles. That snow is there slowly melting until late April or even May I have seen if it is high enough, slowly melting, kids practicing right next to it, we havent had a bad year of snow in awhile but 96 was one of them. That torrential rain broke it all down in a day . Every town up river contributed, it was just a perfect storm as they say but the rain was the main factor. We had 48 hours over 50 degrees, that isnt breaking down giant snow piles by itself. Put a solid block of ice in your sink and let it sit, it will take a LONG time to melt, turn the faucet on it full blast it melts much faster. Thats what happened, but the "faucet" was on way faster than a sink for 3 hours. @@davidford3968
LOL @ 1:46
Typical Pittsburgher when you put a camera on him.
why did they blow the air horn
i was like 5 or 6
I remember that blizzard on Serbian Christmas.
I was born in ‘04 in Pittsburgh
So what's it like being 15?
I cringe every time someone calls a creek a crick.
How about you hear bring in place of take ?
That's why they call us shitsburgh all snow rain and cold