Baltimore Bay bridge collapses

[89th]

So dumb, the odds of timing a power outage just at the right time to make the ship shift with the current just in time to hit the bridge support...

[89th]

Yeah @Mik I thought those were cars at first but those lights were construction crews in the middle of the bridge.

[LuFins Dad]

Holy crap, that is going to be devastating to Baltimore. That’s about the only thing in the city.

Tragic for the workers on the bridge.

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

[jon-nyc]

Crazy footage.

I hope it doesn’t inspire terrorists.

Also, imagine the liability? Probably north of $3B

[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]

[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]

[LuFins Dad]

[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]