Baltimore: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

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Mar 26, 2024 7:20:09 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

I can’t imagine the terror those people felt as the bridge collapsed under them. It’s literally everybody’s worst fear when driving over a bridge. This goes without saying but hopefully there were no fatalities or serious injuries.

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The port handled a record amount of cargo last year, making it the 20th biggest port in the nation ranked by total tons, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. It ranks first in the United States for the volume of automobiles and light trucks it handles and for vessels that carry wheeled cargo, including farm and construction machinery, according to a statement by Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland last month.

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This is a devastating development.

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This was such a horrible headline to wake up to. I hope they find the other missing people. This reminds me of the i95 highway overpass collapse in Philadelphia last summer except orders of magnitude worse. The non stop work to get i95 functional again took less than two weeks as it is a vital piece of roadway. They need to get at least a small corridor cleared in the river to maybe let some sea traffic safely flowing again, but I am not a salvage or engineering expert so who knows how long that will take never mind how long rebuilding the bridge that was well over a mile long would take.

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And yes, Republicans and Fox News being the absolute ghouls that they are somehow blame Democrats and the border for the accident. Never let anything go to waste without blaming the Democrats. Truly despicable people in every imaginable way. Normal people would be concerned about the victims of the tragedy, Republicans wonder “how can we pin this on Biden?”

www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-and-fox-news-pundits-blame-bridge-collapse-on-open-border-and-covid-lockdowns

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Mar 26, 2024 15:27:27 GMT -5 hoyaguy said:

This was such a horrible headline to wake up to. I hope they find the other missing people. This reminds me of the i95 highway overpass collapse in Philadelphia last summer except orders of magnitude worse. The non stop work to get i95 functional again took less than two weeks as it is a vital piece of roadway. They need to get at least a small corridor cleared in the river to maybe let some sea traffic safely flowing again, but I am not a salvage or engineering expert so who knows how long that will take never mind how long rebuilding the bridge that was well over a mile long would take.

The currents and depth of the Patapsco are tricky and many ships rely on tugboats to get them to and fro. There are a lot of engineers working on this as we speak to open the port but the sheer tonnage of 1.6 miles of bridge debris is not easily moved.

The longer term issue is rebuilding it. Where a short section of I-95 could be rebuilt quickly, this bridge was five times the distance of the more familiar Key Bridge in DC and nearly 200 feet above the Patapsco: the original 1972 project took five years to complete.

The only comparable U.S. bridge disaster of this type took place in St. Petersburg, FL in 1980, when a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on a rainy morning, collapsing one of the two spans and killing 35 people, most traveling on a Greyhound bus which never saw it coming and subsequently plummeted 150 feet into the bay--all of whom died. To this day, it is the largest loss of life in US ground transportation history. It took seven years before the bridge was completely rebuilt.