A Singaporean company owned ship, headed to Sri Lanka and run by a 22 men crew entirely from India.
That is lot of fodder for loony RW.
Baltimore bridge collapse
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That is lot of fodder for loony RW.
Fecking loons
Oops, yeah, that is a big distinction.
White Christian Conservative men.
Anything to validate their racism. It's so gross.
It's a miracle so few people were on the bridge at the time of collapse, despite the time. The footage of several vehicles crossing safely as the ship approaches is incredible, those people must feel so fortunate. Still can't get over how quickly it collapses.
Funny that they think Trump would've been able to sleep with that speed cocktail he takes in him.
Monday night at 1:30am is really not a peak time.
saw this on twitter, sobotka won 20 years later (and then presumably the bridge collapse fecks things up again)
Good to know that these things worked.
Heroes indeed.
Poor Frank
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Scanner traffic records the traffic conversations before and during the accident, asking for cars to be stopped on to the bridge.
Edit: Apparently, except the working crew, no other traffic was on the bridge at the time of the accident.
Edit: Apparently, except the working crew, no other traffic was on the bridge at the time of the accident.
I’d like to understand the thinking there.
“THERE’S A MASSIVE SHIP ABOUT TO SMASH INTO THE BRIDGE!!! STOP ALL THE TRAFFIC!!! DON’T LET ANY CARS ON!! STOP ALL THE TRAFFIC! What? Oh those lads? Sure let them crack on. Wouldn’t want to interrupt. Probably doing important stuff out there…”
Probably harder to get in touch with the guys on the bridge? It's easy to stand either side and stop traffic going on.
Even though you may know what company they work for, doesn't mean you have a direct line to them.
Kind surprised the guys working didn't just ball ASAP after feeling the collision. How long did it take from ship hitting the bridge to the collapse? Do we know?
3 Seconds. check the video
yeah just looked back and seen that. Insane. The guys working on it had no chance.
I live in New Orleans where we have the largest continuous bridge over water (maybe it's second place now?) on Lake Pontchartrain and this would scare the ever living beJesus of me considering if I don't go for a piss before you go on the bridge I'm nearly half dying - 25miles without a rest stop.
Amazing that only eight are unaccounted for.
And all those fecking bumps on that bridge, hellacious on a full bladder.
Best estimate is a 'multi-year' effort.
Yeah that is what read at the beginning, but thanks for the tone
I've driven that. It makes you wonder why the feck anyone would even live at the end of that road. Is that really classified as a bridge though and not more of an elevated causeway of sorts?
True, but most of that thing is like 10 feet high and the lake is pretty damn shallow in most places, right?
That being said, I have been on that thing at the very end of a long trip (used to come down from B'Ham a few timers a month for work) and you are not lying about red alert bladder time.
insane thing through a sometimes rough sea, i would never go on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong–Zhuhai–Macau_Bridge
Been to NOLA as a tourist and have taken the causeway just to get an idea how it feels to drive over the water for long. It was fun. But not as much as driving on the seven mile bridge to Key West.
Not really. Time of night and they got a warning out
The mayor looks younger than my son.In action:
Is the mayor still going on about this? I mean, build a bridge.
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Its crazy how one pilar gets hit and everything falls apart like that. Would it be possible to design a bridge with extra "backup" pillars? So in case one gets hit (the probability of multi ships hitting them at the same time should be way lower), the bridge still stands.
Christ Twitter is a fecking cesspit.
would that even work? The front of these big ships are very pointy so maybe it would hit the middle of the pillar before the base? Also, this is an outlier, we don't see bridges collapsing for that reason left and right
Also, what a coworker point out. Wouldn't this ships need to be towed by tug boats till they are out of risky areas like ports/bridges?
I was wondering this myself but maybe the bridge is too far away?
Even if all the city official's were white some black person somewhere would've been blamed