Pittsburgh Regatta will go on without boats, water events

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | July 3 | Tom Fontaine

[PghBaldy]

Organizers of this weekend's EQT Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta said Friday they canceled all scheduled boat races because of hazardous river conditions

[PghBaldy]

The Feds were involved in decision, including DHS. It did rain here recently, but it rains all the time. So the one time they cancel is weekend of supposed massive terror threats?

[BwanaNdege]

So the one time they cancel is weekend of supposed massive terror threats?

ISIS using submarines now? Minelayers?

[PghBaldy]

I give up.

[GeronL]

Is the river on fire again?

[PghBaldy]

It is very bizarre for them to do this. Never happened before. The first time coincided with so-called massive threats, worse since 9/11. It always rains here in June. I think the threat issue pushed them to do this, with rain as the excuse.

[PghBaldy]

That was Cleveland.

[GeronL]

lol

thanks

[BulletBobCo]

Everyone knows there is a HUGE Amish threat in the region.

[prisoner6]

No. That was Cleveland. Here the only deadly thing in the rivers is the Allegheny whitefish.

Oh and that...”THING, REALLY BIG THING” at the base of the Emsworth dam.

[Average Al]

Just rename it “The Great River Boat Demo Derbies.” ;-)

[GeronL]

lol

[Flick Lives]

“hazardous river conditions”? What, whitecaps? Sharks? This article is very vague as to the specifics as to the problem. And how does one have a regatta without boats?

[PittsburghAfterDark]

The amount of rain we’ve had the past 2 weeks has been insane. There have been numerous flash floods, severe thunderstorms, there were threats of flooding certain near water level parking lots etc.

The rivers are as high as they usually are after the spring thaw and at that point they are actually quite dangerous for any recreational boating. Some of it due to water flow rates and levels, it’s also a potential debris issue and numerous branches being in the water from all the tributaries to the rivers.

I’ve never seen it cancelled but I’ve never seen as much rain as we’ve received in June either. They wouldn’t have done this lightly, you don’t tell 300,000 people that the boat races aren’t going to take place without good reason.