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There's already a tunnel the other side of the port 4 miles up river.
Key Bridge, Baltimore, has collapsed.
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"Can the ships' Captain please come to the bridge?"
"Please clarify which one - we have two!"
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It was normal then. Don’t judge someone from yesterday based on today’s supposed moral standards.
And, that was clearly not why the bridge was named after him.
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Don’t confuse Trump, or Trump Cult Members, with the truth!!
I see it didn’t take long to make Biden responsible! I’m assured it was well past his Ovaltine time, so he had already had his bedtime story and was fast asleep with Mummy.
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Not sure the ships would be able to fit through it, mate.
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I suppose we should be grateful that it wasn't nose to tail traffic on there when it happened.
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Yes, six hours later or earlier and it would have been.
It is awful to say, but if it had to happen, that was the best time for it that day.
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I'm wasn't judging anyone, unless you take a few exclamation marks as proof of that. I assume the bridge was named in honour of him for writing the words to star spangled banner, fair dos. But the real standout for me was that for somebody who led the american colonisation society, he still ended up 'owning' slaves when he died. Wasn't right then and it's not right now, I think we can agree on that moral standard.
Yeah, it would have been going backwards.
Probably demolished the Port instead though;-)
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Slavery has always been a part of the human story. I’m glad I live today, when it is decried and considered morally repugnant.
No; you can see that the weight of the debris resting on the bow has caused the ship to be slightly trimmed down by the head and listing to port. It's hard to tell definitively from the pictures, but it appears that most of the damage to the ship is above the waterline and ahead of the collision bulkhead. None of those things should have a significant effect on its stability.
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Will the fiends still be able to get to the low rises?
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You can't get the big trucks in the tunnels plus certain goods being carried cant go in them either
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Very interesting read . . . .
cleavers
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Sounds like a very unfortunate set of circumstances if true.
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Sounds more like a company interested only in profit, unwilling to invest properly in ship maintenance, coupled with regulatory failure to force said company to comply with standards; that such a ship was allowed access to the harbor points to inadequate regulation allowing this catastrophe to occur in the first place. This isn't the first time that the ship which crashed into Key Bridge has been involved with mishap.
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Lloyds names must be shitting themselves.
The ship, the containers, the port and the bridge all fully insured by Lloyd’s!
Baltimore bridge disaster likely to be ‘biggest marine insurance loss in history’
www.thetimes.co.uk
The ship, the containers, the port and the bridge all fully insured by Lloyd’s!
Baltimore bridge disaster likely to be ‘biggest marine insurance loss in history’
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Bigg Bigg Blue
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It's At Lloyd's not with Lloyd'sLloyds names must be shitting themselves.
The ship, the containers, the port and the bridge all fully insured by Lloyd’s!
Baltimore bridge disaster likely to be ‘biggest marine insurance loss in history’
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They underwrite almost every insurance company ever anyway. This is why I always get the annual hump when it comes to renewing car insurance. They all serve the same ultimate boss anyway, its a game and a load of shitLloyds names must be shitting themselves.
The ship, the containers, the port and the bridge all fully insured by Lloyd’s!
Baltimore bridge disaster likely to be ‘biggest marine insurance loss in history’
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