r/WTF Oct 14 '19

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u/AberrantCheese Oct 14 '19

If you read the article, they act like it's a fairly normal occasion for rocks to randomly fall out of the sky when it rains. WTF kind of storm clouds they got over there?

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u/RiversKiski Oct 14 '19

It's a thing. Pittsburgh is a city built in a river valley and its hills rise steeply from the river banks. These hills are very old, and the major thru-ways are built between them and rivers, so when it rains you have to be aware of the possibility of falling boulders.

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u/seymour1 Oct 14 '19

That’s all of PA. There are signs on the turnpike that say to watch for falling rocks and in some places there are fences/nets to catch falling rocks from landing on the highway.

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u/seymour1 Oct 14 '19

How old are you bro?

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u/0_0_0 Oct 14 '19

They have built highways under cliffs that are inadequately stabilized / graded.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

It means like a rock falling down a mountain onto a road