Duquesne is part of PJM.

Also #3 on "Top" r/Pittsburgh, with some other suggestions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/zteqzo/before_you_ask_how_the_roads_are/

511 PA definitely first choice, but also Waze or Google Maps can show you how many accidents are out there on your usual route. Once you see all the crash icons and red lines, you can safely commit to staying home. :-)

I know it's mostly forbidden by landlords for renters, but a kerosene heater is essential in this type of situation. I personally use a Mr Heater Big Buddy + propane tank instead. You can vent the air by leaving a window slightly open for draft. It's perfectly safe, as long as you're monitoring the flame and not running out for errands away from home with it burning.

For infrastructure security reasons, those are not published (I believe). Some utilities used to back in the day. Your best bet is having a friend who works for the power company or used to work for one and can either visually see the circuits or read the pole markings.

In general though, it's fairly easy to know where your local substation is, if you drive around a lot. That's about the only way.

Also, if you're one of the people whose power goes out a lot with even the slightest wind, or if you regularly have low voltage in the summer, you're probably at the end of the circuit.

I'd say the chances are fairly high. I remember the wind storm of Feb 2019 and I'm expecting similar effects but maybe less in duration. I am at the beginning of my circuit so I don't expect to lose power unless a substation is out, but if I were closer to the end of the circuit I would definitely expect to be without for a day or two.

Edit: If anyone is affected by power outages, the City is operating warming centers also. (But apparently waiting till Saturday to open them?)

Yup I was there in summer 2020 for a couple weeks and WOW the number of Washington and California people relocating there was insane.

Yep 100000% unfortunately :-\

Stop it. No. We don't need more people moving here chasing cheap real estate and driving prices up (i.e. less affordable). Lol.

My friends stayed at Linn Run State Park last year in the snow and gushed about how relaxing it was. I don't think they were really impressed with the cabin itself, but it got them where they wanted to be.

https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/LinnRunStatePark/Pages/Stay.aspx

I would check the DCNR web site and see if any state parks on the north/central part of the state have cabins you'd be interested in.

I thought this was a simple enough question, but PennDOT's GIS site only has deck area, lanes, and length, but no clearance or height information. Weird. I'm glad the other commenter thought of using the topo maps.

I take the long stick pepperoni and slice it into 4 wedges like you might slice a pickle, and i put them into bread roll dough from the freezer, when i need my fix. I dunno, it just tastes better to me. I hadn't thought of using pizza dough. This post and my own craving talked me into getting supplies yesterday to make some this week.

This may help https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/z5akga/where_do_you_go_for_pepperoni_rolls/

I'm pointing out how many times you glossed over the correct spelling of Pittsburgh, a place you intend to live, only to come in and misspell it like virtually 2/3 of new posters here. But yeah now that you mention it, you'll probably get some better results in r/Pitt.

Edit: err, I see you're going to CMU. Makes a bit of a difference.

https://imgur.com/a/lD738sa

This is a great question. Around here at the c-stores I only see the ones with the round sliced pepperoni. I really really really miss Tomaro's pepperoni rolls from Clarksburg WV with the sliced pepperoni strips. I have not found anything like that around here but I will look into some of these suggestions in this thread.

Btw you're a good friend for hunting this down for your friends!

You might as well just take down this post and try again. You will get zero helpful answers from this prompt.

Start with the subreddit FAQ for moving/renting and ask from there. We get far too many people asking moving questions, and we can't/won't really adult for you if you've done zero homework.

Hint: Most of the suggested neighborhoods on the list are fairly low-crime.

Some people are mentally ruined when they don't get to enjoy their annual holidays. It kind of reminds me of when my high school dance was canceled due to a student tragedy, and some people pretty much lost their shit because they were so invested in this dance. I have a lot less patience for that attitude in the past couple years. We need to be able to adapt and change when there's, I dunno, a destructive virus going around.

My family all ended up with bronchitis this week and decided to postpone Thanksgiving dinner to Saturday, but I'm still not going. If they're not healthy today, two days isn't going to make a difference, and I'm not risking getting sick given I'm pleased with how healthy I've been this past year or so.

Haha maybe. I'm not sure that's a salve. She's probably out telling everyone she encounters "Well dammit nobody wants to work anymore!!"

What in the hell with all these vehicles crashing into buildings??

I don't discuss/debate politics or religion, sorry. Lol

Heck yeah. Shmuffins are great.

I have noticed a huge uptick in the last 6 months of people parked at green lights looking at their g-d phones. Or I pass people on the highway and they are holding it below the steering wheel obviously staring down at it. ugh. Please buy your loved ones a phone cradle for the holidays. They're going to look at it anyway, might as well be safer about it.

r/steelers probably has good suggestions.

Edit: Also I love the user name. But the DX was a little too expensive at the time, so my family got the SX. Oh well haha.

I'm glad I saw this story. I was at the Giant Eagle today and noticed it wasn't available this time. I was really fond of their greens. I'm kind of curious what precipitated the closure. It seemed like a pretty lean business model that didn't depend on anything excessive, fancy, or expensive. My intuition tells me like any other startup, they were probably pricing below their true costs.