Key Bridge, Baltimore, has collapsed.

Gray said:
It was nothing to do with gender, the ship suffered a brief power outage just before the bridge. So some sort of mechanical failure at completely the wrong time.
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Just said to the wife what an unbelievable set of circumstances that the boat suffers failure, hits the bridge and then people crossing the bridge. All at the same time. The ultimate definition of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Dropped its anchors to try and slow down. Seems nothing the crew could have done to correct the malfunction would have been enough. The fact that radio’d in, and in turn the bridge was then closed shows it is looking like a low as possible death rate here.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Sounds like they stopped more going on, but it's 3 miles long.
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The bridge itself is 3 miles long, but the collapsed bit is quite a lot less than that, as it only bridged where the ships went under in a fairly narrow channel.

There are also 2 power pilons close by, that are obviously about the same width (slightly larger), that take power lines high above the ships.
 
Gray said:
It was nothing to do with gender, the ship suffered a brief power outage just before the bridge. So some sort of mechanical failure at completely the wrong time.
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Is that what initial views think happened then?
 
TinFoilHat said:
It shows how much the economy could be affected by the way Biden came out straight away and said were paying to fix it.
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Not only that, but it’s a perfect infrastructure project to show government at work using the infrastructure dollars Biden fought for…using American labor and raw materials!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Not only that, but it’s a perfect infrastructure project to show government at work using the infrastructure dollars Biden fought for…using American labor and raw materials!
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No doubt he'll order a timescale to get it rebuilt as quickly and safely as possible along with it.

If by some miracle is operative by election day he's onto a winner. I suppose it all comes down to what is damaged.
 
TinFoilHat said:
No doubt he'll order a timescale to get it rebuilt as quickly and safely as possible along with it.

If by some miracle is operative by election day he's onto a winner. I suppose it all comes down to what is damaged.
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There’s no way that bridge is finished by November, but “being seen to be doing” is important and people seeing the bridge being rebuilt is probably sufficient.

Assuming people died in this accident, it’d be hard to use it as the backdrop for a campaign rally…at least by Biden.

Trump knows no shame, so he’d be out there today talking about how shithole foreigners on a shithole foreign ship going to some shithole foreign country have hit our beautiful Francis Scott Key (look him up!!) Bridge, but he is going to rebuild it bigger, better and more beautiful, because nobody knows construction better than he knows construction!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
There’s no way that bridge is finished by November, but “being seen to be doing” is important and people seeing the bridge being rebuilt is probably sufficient.

Assuming people died in this accident, it’d be hard to use it as the backdrop for a campaign rally…at least by Biden.

Trump knows no shame, so he’d be out there today talking about how shithole foreigners on a shithole foreign ship going to some shithole foreign country have hit our beautiful Francis Scott Key (look him up!!) Bridge, but he is going to rebuild it bigger, better and more beautiful, because nobody knows construction better than he knows construction!
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Singapore is practically ChyNa, isn't it?
 
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