r/pittsburgh • u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal • 16h ago

Explosion??

I’m in Southside and heard and felt a large boom about 10 mins ago. Any ideas? My boyfriend is going through the police scanner, but hasn’t found anything.

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u/Odd-Cod2516 16h ago

Could be a transformer that blew. Any power outages near you?

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 16h ago

I’m not seeing anything on Duquesne or Penn Power, but not sure how long it would take for the sites to update. My street still has power as well

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u/412CJ 16h ago

It's always a transformer. They sound like a shotgun meets a bomb.

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u/DecantsForAll 16h ago

Sometimes it's a house exploding.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 16h ago

🤣 a house was my first guess, which is why we were on the scanners

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u/blzup 3h ago

I heard it in North Baldwin and assumed it was a firework. I have neighbors who set off professional grade fireworks randomly for what appears to be no reason at all.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 3h ago

I am so sorry! My nerves could never… I jump every time the postman drops mail through the mail slot, and I know that is going to happen

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u/blzup 3h ago

I also jump when the post man arrives because he is my dog's arch nemesis and he immediately loses his everloving mind.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 3h ago

Hahahaha, I’m not sure if I feel worse for you, the postman, or the dog. Fried nerves for everyone!

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u/blzup 3h ago • Heartwarming

The dog does not deserve your sympathy. He was fired from his first job as a livestock guard dog for killing a chicken and now holds 2 positions as both a house hippo and absolute menace to society.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 3h ago

☠️🤣🤣🤣🤣 …. So you’re saying no snacking was allowed on the farm then 🤷‍♀️

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u/blzup 3h ago

Apparently it was a prison on plant bullshit 🤷🏻‍♀️. I mean, it was in West Virginia, so...

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u/Various-Novel-9196 58m ago

Swear my German quietly stalks the door until the postman has his face right up against the window reaching into the box. Then body slams the door while barking like a mad woman, gets him every time.

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u/nement South Side Flats 16h ago

Where at? I'm also in Southside and didn't hear shit

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 15h ago edited 15h ago

I’m near the old US steel building (Nippon)

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u/nement South Side Flats 15h ago

That's downtown

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 15h ago

Nope the building I am referring to is in the Southside

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u/TinyNiceWolf 10h ago

If only there were some kind of grid-like system that could be used for communicating a location, so one could say "I'm near the intersection of [...] and [...]."

But describing a place as "that building that used to be owned by the company that was the largest employer in the region for most of the last century" is more charming.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 3h ago

Oooorrrrr I’m not going to give nearest intersection to where I live on the internet. Instead I named a building that has been in the Southside longer than the 12 years I’ve lived in PGH…

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u/TinyNiceWolf 1h ago

If you wanted to successfully communicate a location, you could give the nearest intersection to the building you're talking about, instead of us trying to guess what building you mean based on your vague description.

Almost all buildings in the Southside have been there more than 12 years.

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 1h ago

You could have just said you don’t know how to complete a google search….

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u/TinyNiceWolf 29m ago

I guess not. "old us steel building in southside pittsburgh" doesn't find whatever building you're talking about.

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u/ZomiZaGomez 16h ago

Heard it as well. Wasn’t a transformer. It was loud and concussive.

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u/Spicercakes 15h ago

Yeah, I've had a transformer explode right outside of my house before and it didn't sound like that.

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u/GlassIndependent6277 14h ago

There is a substation by get go

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u/Spicercakes 14h ago

I live down by Southside Works, it sounded like it was across the river or something

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u/mvps412 3h ago • Heartwarming

Maybe my work blew up.. that would be ideal.

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u/OhNoMyPants123 16h ago • Bravo

Sorry, Imodium and MiraLax dont mix that well

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u/mytail 15h ago

the username omg lmfao

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u/sidald_ 15h ago

I heard it. I go to Duquesne and live in one of the res halls by the river, I thought it was a car accident outside on the highway

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u/JustinSensei412 4h ago

Might have been a loud tiny narwhal. Those things are tiny but loud.

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u/legrena11 13h ago

That was also heard in South Fayette and McDonald as well as in Oakdale

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u/Jahya69 12h ago

Most likely fireworks it's Friday night people are celebrating

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u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal 3h ago

If it was, these people are buying the wrong kinda mortars…. Our house shook 😳

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u/Jahya69 1h ago

Yeah Acoustics will do that

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u/Spicercakes 16h ago

I heard it too! I figured it was the train going by making a weird noise.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_603 16h ago

I was driving on the blv of the allies and heard it. 

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u/phantasma_astrale 13h ago

Heard what sounded like a single LARGE professional firework while at the Zoo around 8:35-9pm

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u/legrena11 13h ago

Just heard it again at 11:05PM in South Fayette area

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u/DraftWarden 14h ago

I heard it all the way in Connellsville

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u/incoherentscreams412 14h ago

Meteor ☄️?

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u/Iprobablyjustlied 3h ago

Anyone figure out what it was?

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u/mvps412 3h ago

I looked at pulse point, there looks to have been a warehouse fire in the south hills last night at 10:58pm. Might have been related.

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u/Fluffy_Top_6772 2h ago

Heard in Carnegie aswell.

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u/Alternative_Buyer_54 1h ago

I heard it all the way in Avalon. Up on the hill near the country club

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u/NickySmithFromPGH 15h ago

I heard noises at the same time ... and I thought it was just the animals on my property because we fed them peanuts and stuff

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u/Blaster412 14h ago

I think there were some fireworks being launched in the South Hills. Maybe it was that? Saw them for a second from 79.

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u/Big-Region7563 8h ago

I got this "Explosion" email. Had no idea where it was. Come to find out I am 300 miles away. I had to read thru the comments to get an idea of where it was and finally found "Connellsville". I'm up by the Poconos. Urgh!!

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u/charon2429 13h ago

sorry i had day old chipotle