You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.