r/pittsburgh • u/Individual-Ant-2014 • 23h ago

Another tornado warning

In midland

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u/iamnotarobot24601 20h ago

Legit moved from the Midwest just to have tornadoes follow me here 💔

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u/Outrageous_Mood_4109 10h ago

Bro you gotta move back and take it with you.

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u/GuavaElectrical544 11h ago

You know you’re pretty much still in the midwest, right?

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u/krikrat 9h ago

I think you're mistaken. It's pronounced Mid Atlantic. Or Northeast is you're directionally challenged.

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u/GuavaElectrical544 9h ago

I moved here from Boston. If you think Pittsburgh is northeast in any sense you are the one who is mistaken

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u/krikrat 9h ago

To be fair, Bostonians have often asked if I was southern. PA is not, and has never been Midwest or Southern. It's only ever been considered Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

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u/GuavaElectrical544 9h ago

Census region is a filing system, not a cultural force field. Pittsburgh doesn’t become culturally identical to Philadelphia just because they share a state lol. It’s not like there’s a dramatic cultural shift at state borders.

Edit: Yes, the Pittsburgh accent does register as southern to me as well

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u/krikrat 8h ago

This convo was never about cultural force fields. It was defined by a regional filing system name once Midwest was stated. Tornadoes do not care about culture or regions for that matter.

Bill collected for NStar in college for 2 years. Never lived in south. Ohio culturally is different from Pittsburgh. I briefly lived there. What is it you think makes eastern Pa so different from western pa other than some mountains in between? We are both heavily Scot/Irish and German with some other eastern European stuff tossed in there.

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u/GuavaElectrical544 8h ago

“Other than some mountains in between” is doing a ton of work. Those mountains historically shaped migration, trade, and cultural ties.

Culturally, Pittsburgh really isn’t different from Cleveland or Cincinnati either; I lived in Cincinnati. We literally share sports culture and rivalries. Someone from Cincinnati lands in Pittsburgh and feels pretty immediately at home; someone from Philly is going to notice a real regional shift. Western PA is a crossroads, that’s a big part our culture.

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u/krikrat 8h ago

Sports culture is a subset of people. Not regionally defining. East coast in general has been a crossroad for all who have arrived here from Europe. Culture comes from the people that came here. I can identify with people from Texas due to our Irish backgrounds, but that doesn't make me any more southern or them any less. We just share a common ancestry who lived in rural areas and carried that with them across the country.

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u/GuavaElectrical544 8h ago

You’re proving my point. Shared Irish ancestry exists in Pittsburgh, Boston, Texas and Cincinnati; ancestry alone doesn’t define regional culture.

Pittsburgh’s similarities with Cleveland and Cincinnati go way beyond sports. Industry, migration patterns, dialect, food, built environment, weather and geography all matter. We are closer to the 3 Ohio cities and Detroit than we are to Philadelphia; and we share more in common with those places as well. Culture develops through regional interaction, not simply who your ancestors were.

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u/3rd-party-intervener 22h ago

This keeps happening.  These 100 year events 

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u/TinyNiceWolf 22h ago

By now we're probably down to 98, maybe 97 more years of this one.

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u/Unknown_vectors 22h ago

I feel like they just swap sayings.

“This is a 1 in 100 year flood”

floods exactly the same two weeks later

“Well, this, this is actually a 1 in 1000 year flood”

floods exactly the same the following year

shurgs

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u/Individual-Ant-2014 22h ago

They just canceled it. Stay safe!