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Pittsburgh road buckling, yard crumbling after rain, flooding

PITTSBURGH — A road is buckling in Pittsburgh’s Overbook neighborhood after rain and flooding earlier in the week.

A resident of Maytide Street taped off the damaged area to prevent anyone from getting hurt and to stop drivers from driving over it.

The buckled portion of the road is near the sidewalk in front of Jim Smith’s home. Chunks of concrete are scattered in his front yard.

Smith said the street filled with water Wednesday night and, within minutes, parts of it started crumbling along with his front yard.

“It just started raining, and it just started collapsing. There wasn’t too much you could do. It started to carry the concrete wall like it was paper,” Smith said.

Channel 11 saw cars drive over the buckling street passing the hole on the side, and some residents said, it's not only a problem on Maytide Street.

"Especially in the South Hills because it's like we are in a gully. We get it from the top all the way to the bottom. 51 is worse than this, but this is pretty bad and a lot of people go through this, as you can tell," resident Jose Colon said.

As for Smith, he wants the city to take action soon.

"I want them to take care of it. People pay taxes to take care of roads like this. I understand  there's landslides everywhere but this here is a main road," Smith said.

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