Disaster "Mass casualty incident" declared after Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

No article yet as this just happened, but could be big. One of the largest bridges in the world according to Wikipedia.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/breaking-news-key-bridge-collapsed

 

[draggs]

But it was. Truss bridges are like that pretty much by design. Something breaks and the whole thing collapses. It was known around 20 years before that one was built.

No it wasn't. How many truss bridges are collapsing from getting T-boned by container ships every year? There is no way to build a bridge strong enough to handle that much weight hitting a pier unless the piers are many times more massive. This bridge is allegedly rated to be able to take a hit of a 250,000 tonne ship going 10 knots, look at how huge the piers are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge

 

[Roggishi]

What a shitty way to go, on your way home after another crappy janny shift, only for some pajeets to end up killing you, trapped in your car in total freezing darkness as you drown.

RIP

 

[glass_houses]

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Purple is the Key Bridge.

Also apparently boat traffic is starting to back up around the Bay Bridge to the south.

Honestly, if I were a business in the area, I'd just shut up shop and spend the next few days drinking my sorrows. I wouldn't even load the truck/boat/train, I'd just put a "closed for renovation" sign on the front door, and go buy a 100L drum of methylated spirits and drink all of it.

 

[Sad Chad]

I have some sympathy for the crew if it was a legitimate fault with the ship. It's not often that you get to witness an inevitable crash over the course of minutes.

There is nothing faster then a ship hurdling towards a dock at 4 knots. 13 knots towards a bridge sounds like a pants shitting experience.

 

[GenociderSyo]

They had a cruise ship go out that afternoon on 3/25 which now has to divert to NJ. Probably going to have some effect not only on commerce from cargo, but that business as well since it was one of the main ports for a few cruise lines. Only diversion port seems to be NJ at moment since NY for some reason stopped being a port for many cruise ships this year.

 

[bangdingow]

FUCK YOU, BALTIMORE!

 

[Metatron]

Having your car fall into the water is horrifying during the day, but most nightmarish at night. Holy fuckaroni.

 

[LeChampion1992]

Are bridges supposed to just annihilate themselves when a support is clipped? Wouldn't they be designs for only a segment to fall off?

This is a steel frame bridge, despite it being designed to go off in segments it isn't prepared for a ships power failing at a high speed to ram it especially after reaching its build design limit.

I think this one has the ship's comms overlayed onto the video
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You can hear the guy screaming turn right turn right, turn right,

 

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You can hear the guy screaming turn right turn right, turn right,

I'm pretty sure that's fake audio, but, Turn Right would be... aiming the ship right towards the pier. They'd want to turn... left, right? Or do I need to get checked for dyslexia?

E: Also, don't they use different terms than left/right on ships?

 

[Basement Dwelling Dork]

I remembered during a hurricane in my state a ship had just slammed in one of the bridges column. Luckily it only damaged it and the bridge didn't collapse.
All it caused was that bridge to be shutdown untill they repaired it.
No doubt this event would cause a worse kind of yearly traffic jams.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

$20 says a nigger was involved.

$40 on a woman because this was caused by bad driving (navigating?)

It’s a democrat run city. Odds are good it could be both at the same time.

 

[draggs]

I think this one has the ship's comms overlayed onto the video
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"SAMEEN SIR, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN SIR, SIR REDEEM SHARP RIGHT"

"SIR SHUT UP SIR, DO NOT REDEEM SHARP RIGHT SIR"

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

They had a cruise ship go out that afternoon on 3/25 which now has to divert to NJ. Probably going to have some effect not only on commerce from cargo, but that business as well since it was one of the main ports for a few cruise lines. Only diversion port seems to be NJ at moment since NY for some reason stopped being a port for many cruise ships this year.

Carnival can't catch a break. Their ship is one of the only ones that uses Baltimore as a home port. A few days ago another of their ships caught on fire at sea and was on fire for hours while passengers freaked out below decks.

I definitely wonder about the possibility of a cyberattack against this bridge. With all the tech out there to know exactly where ships are at any given time, cutting the power at just the right moment could be within the realm of possibility for attackers. If so, we're in a new era and shit's going to get a lot worse.

 

[Roggishi]

I'd like to hear from James Cameron.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

No it wasn't. How many truss bridges are collapsing from getting T-boned by container ships every year? There is no way to build a bridge strong enough to handle that much weight hitting a pier unless the piers are many times more massive. This bridge is allegedly rated to be able to take a hit of a 250,000 tonne ship going 10 knots, look at how huge the piers are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge

This isn't about durability. It's about structural integrity, of which truss bridges have very little. The ship collided with the truss support, and the entire truss collapsed.

The exact same thing would have happened here if any of the supports on the left were struck.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Mayoral Statement on Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and plan to build George Floyd Memorial Bridge and Baptist Church

 

[Bec Noir]

No it wasn't. How many truss bridges are collapsing from getting T-boned by container ships every year? There is no way to build a bridge strong enough to handle that much weight hitting a pier unless the piers are many times more massive. This bridge is allegedly rated to be able to take a hit of a 250,000 tonne ship going 10 knots, look at how huge the piers are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge

There seems to be a miscommunication, unless I misunderstand Pierre. I believe he is saying that other bridges could've had less of a catastrophic collapse. Any bridge would collapse under this circumstance, and there's no way around it, but a truss bridge is more prone to massive collapses like this in these disaster scenarios. There are other types of bridges where less of the bridge would've collapsed.

 

[Shark Senpai]

I'm pretty sure that's fake audio, but, Turn Right would be... aiming the ship right towards the pier. They'd want to turn... left, right? Or do I need to get checked for dyslexia?

E: Also, don't they use different terms than left/right on ships?

They use port/starboard for ships. Though "sharp right" might make sense if the context is using tiller commands for some reason since tiller commands are inverted. I don't believe tiller commands are utilized anymore though.

 

[ZipDisk]

The front of the ship is in scientific terms, turbofucked. The livestream keeps zooming in, and I'm glad I don't have to clean that up.

 

[Bec Noir]

They use port/starboard for ships. Though "sharp right" might make sense if the context is using tiller commands for some reason since tiller commands are inverted. I don't believe tiller commands are utilized anymore though.

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The audio is from a viral youtube video. It was meant as a joke.