OH MY GAWD IT LANDED! TORNADO! TORNADO!

The following tornado video transcript should be read aloud with a heavy yinzer accent:

Get out here guys!
Alright, it’s hailing reeeally bad right now.
We got a twister, you see that twister?
DO YOU SEE THAT TWISTER?
(On the phone with his mom now)
Hello? yeah.
There’s a tornado right over our house ma.
It’s a tornado.
Ma, it’s a it’s a huge tornado.
I’m getting it on video tape.
I’m inside mom (no he’s not), I gotta go.
I’m gonna shut the door, and shut it and lock it up.
It’s right above us mom.
It is humongous.
Mom, it’s hailing golf balls.
This is horrible. Ok.
I’m staying in ok? (hangs up the phone, but he’s still outside)

That’s a tornado.
Right now we’re in Hempfield, Pennsylvania.
March twenty third, two thousand and eleven.
This tornado, we don’t get tornados here.
This tornado here, its comin’ hard.
It’s comin’ down hard.
DO YOU SEE THAT?
DO YOU SEE THAT?
OMG it’s rippin’ stuff apart.
This is a tornado guys.
This is a tornado.
OH MY GOD, if you could see that!
OH MY GOD, IT LANDED!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!
TORNADO, TORNADO!!!!!!11

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This Sucks

3-6" of snow in mid-March (via @LappyGirl)

Picture via @LappyGirl

It’s being reported that we’re going to see between 3-6″ of snow this weekend. Based on the map above, it looks inevitable. This might be the last (hooray!) snowstorm we see before Spring really springs itself into action. It’s not easy, but we were thinking of some ways to make it as unboring as possible…
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Six Degrees of Precipitation in Pittsburgh

Six degrees of precipitation in Pittsburgh t-shirt by Mongoware

Six Degrees of Precipitation in Pittsburgh t-shirt by Mongoware

One of our readers sent us a link to this parking chair shirt, but after browsing a few of the other designs, this one was hilarious – especially since weather is a topic of choice around BPGH. This shirt covers it all: Scattered Shahrs, Shahrs, Warsh Out, Snow Shahrs, Slippy Conditions, and of course SNOMG. Notice the bread and milk below the SNOMG label? They forgot the carton of eggs.

The shirts are sold under the name Mongo and the entire collection of Pittsburgh themed tees can be found here. Some of our favorites are Slippy, Pittsburgh Flag (Steelers fans will get a kick out of this one), and of course Stinkbug (which says “There’s one on me isn’t there?”).
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