Baltimore Bay bridge collapses

[Axtremus]

Looks very bad.
No numbers on casualties yet.
Hoping for the best.

[bachophile]

I’ve felt a long time that American infrastructure is decaying before our eyes. Europe has always seemed much more modern and maintained than the US.

[George K]

Interesting.

[George K]

This explains it all:

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Has anybody brought up the fact that the bridge is named for that racist ZSOB Frances Scott Key?

Are you kidding? That was literally the first thing I thought of.

BTW Key also has a bridge in DC named after him. Better stay off it!

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

I hope it doesn’t inspire terrorists.

I'm pretty sure my post earlier provided the inspiration. (waves to FBI)

[89th]

@Axtremus said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Hoping for the best.

They all miraculously landed in rafts!

[89th]

@George-K said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Interesting.

Quite surprising those foundational supports aren't protected more given the sizes of ships going between them, obviously this is viewed in retrospect.

[Copper]

@89th said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

BTW Key also has a bridge in DC named after him. Better stay off it!

What do the Key Bridge and Jimmy Carter have in common?

(a popular question when I worked in DC during the Carter Administration)

[Jolly]

@89th said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

@George-K said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Interesting.

Quite surprising those foundational supports aren't protected more given the sizes of ships going between them, obviously this is viewed in retrospect.

Hindsight is 20-20.

Did we have container ships in the 1970's like the one that struck the bridge?

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

@89th said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

@George-K said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Interesting.

Quite surprising those foundational supports aren't protected more given the sizes of ships going between them, obviously this is viewed in retrospect.

Hindsight is 20-20.

Did we have container ships in the 1970's like the one that struck the bridge?

Installing bumpers isn’t hindsight, it’s something they’ve been warned about. Bridges have been having them installed for several decades.

[Axtremus]

System designers and engineers have written reams and reams on "single points of failures."
Yet avoiding them in the real world is really, really hard; or really, really expensive.

[xenon]

Yeah - this seems like a freak, highly improbable thing.

[Mik]

We’ve had barges run into the bridges in Cincinnati, but no such damage. The Ohio River Bridges are not nearly as high or long. That’s a factor.

[LuFins Dad]

@xenon said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Yeah - this seems like a freak, highly improbable thing.

Freak, highly improbable things eventually happen when you have 2000 cargo ships going in and out every year

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

This post is deleted!

[jon-nyc]

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:

Was P Diddy on the bridge at the time?

[George K]