in april twenty twenty-five
a huge wind storm felled hundreds of trees across pittsburgh and caused a power outage for over three hundred thousand people.
in the following year, out of embarrassment and urgency, the duquesne light company cut down dozens more trees to delay the cost of updating the grid. they didn’t consult the residents or find a pruning solution.
they just cut.
in early twenty twenty-six, at least three dozen more healthy trees in pittsburgh neighborhoods were clear cut for greedy developers, including on penn ave in garfield.
and, of course, pittsburgh cut down an estimated seventy to one hundred trees to accommodate a one weekend football convention in april (aka the nfl draft).
this triggered the return of the
and now he’s fucking pissed
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