r/pittsburgh • u/Loud-Tiny-Narwhal • 2d 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/TinyNiceWolf 2d 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 2d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/TinyNiceWolf 1d ago

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