Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFourth of July festivities were delayed in Pittsburgh due to severe weather rolling through for much of the evening. Gates reopened on the North Shore and at Point State Park just after 8 p.m. Since everyone was trying to get inside all at once, the lines were massive and created unexpected wait times. Many folks decided to stay outside and just watch the fireworks show from the sidewalks downtown. \u201cIt was insane. Oh, I’m expecting a line this long, I’m out here. But, I mean, it is a big celebration. Oh, God, that was crazy. But nothing like I ever seen before,\u201d said Denise and Deliliah Roush of Baldwin. The lines were shorter on the North Shore, and people were able to spend time in the bars and restaurants on North Shore Drive during the shelter-in-place order. In all parts of the celebration, people still enjoyed vendors, music, food and of course, fireworks. They say some rain didn\u2019t put a damper on their celebration.\u201cObviously like the grass is a little wet from the rain, but the funnel cakes are good, the fried Oreos are good. Everybody seems to be having a good time. I’m just so excited for the fireworks,\u201d said Jaelyn Carr of Uniontown.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Fourth of July festivities were delayed in Pittsburgh due to severe weather rolling through for much of the evening. <\/p>\n
Gates reopened on the North Shore and at Point State Park just after 8 p.m. Since everyone was trying to get inside all at once, the lines were massive and created unexpected wait times. Many folks decided to stay outside and just watch the fireworks show from the sidewalks downtown. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was insane. Oh, I’m expecting a line this long, I’m out here. But, I mean, it is a big celebration. Oh, God, that was crazy. But nothing like I ever seen before,\u201d said Denise and Deliliah Roush of Baldwin. <\/p>\n
The lines were shorter on the North Shore, and people were able to spend time in the bars and restaurants on North Shore Drive during the shelter-in-place order. <\/p>\n
In all parts of the celebration, people still enjoyed vendors, music, food and of course, fireworks. They say some rain didn\u2019t put a damper on their celebration.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously like the grass is a little wet from the rain, but the funnel cakes are good, the fried Oreos are good. Everybody seems to be having a good time. I’m just so excited for the fireworks,\u201d said Jaelyn Carr of Uniontown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUNDS AND CELEBRATED THIS MILESTONE IN OUR NATION\u2019S HISTORY. WELL, IT WAS A LITTLE LATER THAN EXPECTED, BUT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,8120,101745,749,1515,77227,101286,14003,7865,14131,6016,523,73,101746,75,74,2822,976,526,27740,47773],"class_list":["post-236200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-america250","tag-big-celebration","tag-downtown","tag-food","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-july-firework","tag-line","tag-music","tag-north-shore","tag-part","tag-people","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-fourth","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rain","tag-restaurant","tag-time","tag-vendor","tag-weather-delay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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