Baltimore Bay bridge collapses
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wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 14:05 last edited by
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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?
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 14:36 last edited by@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!
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Crazy footage.
I hope it doesn’t inspire terrorists.
Also, imagine the liability? Probably north of $3B
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 14:37 last edited by@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)
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@Axtremus said in Baltimore Bay bridge collapses:
Hoping for the best.
They all miraculously landed in rafts!
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wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 14:39 last edited by
@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.
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@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!
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 15:07 last edited by@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)
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@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.
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 15:14 last edited by@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?
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@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?
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 16:16 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 16:25 last edited by
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. -
wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 16:43 last edited by xenon
Yeah - this seems like a freak, highly improbable thing.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 16:55 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 26 Mar 2024, 17:03 last edited by
@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
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Some images from some area photographers.
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wrote on 27 Mar 2024, 17:45 last edited by
Beautiful. I wonder if the replacement bridge will be the same design?
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wrote on 27 Mar 2024, 19:00 last edited by
It looks fragile.
We need something to inspire confidence
