Key Bridge, Baltimore, has collapsed.

[Blue Mist]

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.

That's the point, the woman captain was tidying up and turning everything off that those 'bloody men' had left on.


Soz @normskih

 

[cleavers]

It shows how much the economy could be affected by the way Biden came out straight away and said were paying to fix it.

Biden (and trump) will be dead by the time they start rebuilding this bridge, it'll be years before they can, it's going to take months to reopen the port, never mind start building a bridge again.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Singapore is practically ChyNa, isn't it?

“It’s foreign” is enough for his mouth breathing troll cult who can’t find the United States on a map, let alone the speck of land that is Singapore on the other side of the globe!

 

[LWashington]

Looks like a really low budget album cover.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Biden (and trump) will be dead by the time they start rebuilding this bridge, it'll be years before they can, it's going to take months to reopen the port, never mind start building a bridge again.

I beg to differ. I think they’ll clear the high bridge section of debris as soon as the rescue-recovery-removal is complete and they’ll open the waterway. It’s too important to the jobs in the city and too much money would be lost by dilly-dallying on reopening the deep water channel.

I have no civil engineering background, but I did stay at Holiday Inn Express last night (a joke for the Americans!).

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Looks like a really low budget album cover.

For shit singer named Tex!

 

[cleavers]

I beg to differ. I think they’ll clear the high bridge section of debris as soon as the rescue-recovery-removal is complete and they’ll open the waterway. It’s too important to the jobs in the city and too much money would be lost by dilly-dallying on reopening the deep water channel.

They'll obviously open the port as soon as they can economically, but they'll have to clear the mess out of the way first, that'll probably need a salvage company. The ship will likely need refloating, it could be badly damaged under the water, then they'll have to do some serious checks under the water to make sure the channel is still viable, it may need dredging after several days/weeks with no ship movements as its tidal, so every 6 hours, water and sediment move back and forth, I don't know what the tidal spread is.

On the bridge rebuild, they'll still have the concrete piers to build on, so that could help.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

They'll obviously open the port as soon as they can economically, but they'll have to clear the mess out of the way first, that'll probably need a salvage company. The ship will likely need refloating, it could be badly damaged under the water, then they'll have to do some serious checks under the water to make sure the channel is still viable, it may need dredging after several days/weeks with no ship movements as its tidal, so every 6 hours, water and sediment move back and forth, I don't know what the tidal spread is.

On the bridge rebuild, they'll still have the concrete piers to build on, so that could help.

You sound like you have me at a disadvantage with your knowledge, so I’ll defer to you on the requirements for any reopening of the channel.

However, as the outer harbor bridge, it has shutdown a very active east coast port which will be doing everything in its power to open asap.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I beg to differ. I think they’ll clear the high bridge section of debris as soon as the rescue-recovery-removal is complete and they’ll open the waterway. It’s too important to the jobs in the city and too much money would be lost by dilly-dallying on reopening the deep water channel.

I have no civil engineering background, but I did stay at Holiday Inn Express last night (a joke for the Americans!).

That would be my thought. The central channel should be clearable reasonably quickly - well, as soon as a ship with a really big crane can get there.