Blizzard of 2010 Pittsburgh - Snow plow gets police escort at CMU

Look at this snow plow getting police escorted down Forbes Avenue near Carnegie Mellon... Right before the video started, the cops were on loudspeakers telling people to get out of the street and walk on the sidewalk. Sure that makes sense, but it's easy to say from a inside a car. The snow on the sidewalks was pushing 2 feet in some places!

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[Francesc2000]

This is really beautiful. That police car is very nice looking and the snow makes it seem surreal. Very cool video.

[BoringPittsburgh]

@Francesc2000 Thanks for the nice comment. That night definitely felt surreal!

[BoringPittsburgh]

If you listen closely when the snow plow comes, the driver slows down a little so we could get the plowing on tape.

[LordOfNothingham]

Thats also an exclusive shot of the only snow plow owned by the city of Pittsburgh.

[vscales61]

LOL! That's backwards.

[xboxplaya420]

crazy times in the burgh

[scottiebobson]

@Whateverintheworld

I live near Pittsburgh. When the snow is falling at 1-2 inches per hour, salt doesn't help for long, so trucks generally wait until huge snowstorms are over before applying salt. If the snow is still falling heavily, the plows are primarily focusing on keeping the roads open and reasonably passable.

[Whateverintheworld]

I don't get these cities back east that plow without laying down salt. None of these snow plows are spraying salt as they are plowing.

[myjugganaut24]

this blizzard fucking sucked money nuts, if any of you lived here or around it you would know how much this sucked

[padude64]

2 feet of snow fell that night

[derail14]

mother nature is grand its a thing we can not control in our modern tech world, Does that make you scared?