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

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

If a suspension bridge loses a tower, then what do you think happens to the cables?

Is that a trick question? Because all suspension bridge collapses resulted in their total destruction, unless you count that one case in Indonesia where two pillars were left standing.

Yeah Einstein, I'm sure any other type of bridge would've been a-okay if it got rammed by an object the size of a fucking building.

Cool strawman. Reread what I posted. The damage would have been catastrophic regardless of what bridge type, but the severity of it would vary GREATLY. A suspension bridge would have likely collapsed completely. Same with the truss section. You can compare it to someone being pushed into water while holding on to another person, and that person is holding yet another person, and so on. In the end they all end up in the water.

The type of bridge is irrelevant for both cases.

I give up, there is no getting through to you. Ask any actual engineer why truss bridges are dangerous. I only have secondhand experience and can't be fucked to reason with you anymore.

 

[Aqua Panda]

The only saving grace about this situation was that it was pre-dawn hours and not the middle of rush. It means we are looking at ballpark 50 or so casualties instead of hundreds.

Still colossal fuckup that is going to have major ramifications. The entire eastern seaboard shipping trade is about to get fucked up and we will likely see prices jump on everything from food to gas.

 

[Manu7]

They'll never figure out how to rebuild that bridge. That's the sad part. It's just fucking gone.

without trying to powerlevel too much, I can say that non-pajeet Engineers can figure out for sure how to rebuild that bridge exactly how it was (of course that'll be a bad idea, there are better standards now), the problem is modern laws/city officials/anything management related that makes doing anything way more complicated and expensive for no good reason.

Not sure if this is a common case in the US, but where I live engineers can't be blamed for a unnecessary expensive/slow expansion of infrastructure when +50 childless Karens is all it takes for city officials to stop a multi-million dollar project and "reevaluate" stupid shit like "environmental impact", even though it was been already approved and certified.

 

[Bec Noir]

it shouldn't have said the n word

If the mayor of Baltimore can say "Baltimore Strong," then every Bostonian can say "nigger." It's only fair.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Total Journalist Death

Makes sense. It is pointless to ask questions you know people have not had enough time to find the answers to and you know they’ll be a plan to deal with delays so you can actually find out the answer.

Credit to the last one, she pushed the Governor asking him how they know vehicles were stopped because they were told sonar is picking up vehicles at the bottom of the river.

Because they have video of when it hit the bridge and the time of when the warning is sent. So they can close the bridge after that.

You aren’t able to stop the people that are already crossing the bridge before that warning goes out.

Maydays never go out fast enough.

Honestly, what a silly question to ask As was the guy getting mad at the question.

 

[mlanguishi]

The only saving grace about this situation was that it was pre-dawn hours and not the middle of rush. It means we are looking at ballpark 50 or so casualties instead of hundreds.

Incredibly I just heard only still 6 missing, but they're probably all gone. Even so, that's an amazingly low number.

 

[Humble Architect]

Hopefully this galvanizes the apes against the poo people, that would be the best thing to come of this.

This is black people’s 9/11 if you think about it.

 

[i440BX]

Holy shit. This is troublesome. How many times a ship has hit bridges. I don't think too many. It might predict the rot of US civilization.

 

[TooManyKittens]

If gas and food prices j

The only saving grace about this situation was that it was pre-dawn hours and not the middle of rush. It means we are looking at ballpark 50 or so casualties instead of hundreds.

Still collasal fuckup that is going to have major ramifications. The entire eastern seaboard shipping trade is about to get fucked up and we will likely see prices jump on everything from food to gas

I hope the latter you're slightly wrong on. If gas and food hop any higher than currently in another big jump i sincerely think the knock on effects of that will be a whole lot worse than the bridge itself in terms of casualties and likely overall destruction. Otoh if Baltimore burns it wouldn't exactly be a loss.

 

[Meat Target]

They said it was going 8 knots. Im not a boat person but I assume something that big doesnt just suddenly stop.

Yeah.
An anchor would not be able to stop that mass from coming to a sudden stop.
Newtons law and all.

Ahh, that's true.

For those without a conversion chart, 8 knots is about 10 mph, which is fast for a big fuckoff cargo ship.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

If only we had the technology to stop boats from running into bridges

 

[Bec Noir]

Why not drop the anchor?

They did drop the anchor. It had already begun to pull on the ship at the time of the collision. The anchor doesn't do shit when there's that much momentum.

 

[30+GameOvers]

The country is quite literally falling apart now. Can the current city governments, with the inflation and competency crisis and what have you, even rebuild it at this point? Either way this is a disaster that will be felt for a long time.
Do we have casualty numbers yet?

 

[Not a bee]

I went back and forth across this bridge regularly as a kid, always peering out the window thinking about something exactly like this. You catch yourself holding your breath until you’re on the downhill side. I can’t even be funny about it. I’m so sad and horrified for anyone who was on it.

I loved travelling over this bridge when visiting friends. Especially at night so you can see how pretty it was.
This hits close to home. I am sorry friend.

 

[Super An Hero]

This ain't news. This happens every Tuesday in Baltimore.

 

[sperginity]

Ah america, where it funds top dollar infrastructure, free education,security, and healthcare everywhere else but it in its own soil because reasons, and both democrats and republicans seriously believe it can't be done.

I need not to remind, that whoever was at the helm isn't responsible, yes he is a fucking moron, but bridges shouldn't collapse entirely specially ones in a harbor against a ship slowly moving.

Bridges are supposed to collapse in stages, not all sections at basically the same time, there are bridges in Vietnam who got bombed for 7 years straight and remained operational, the Crimean bridge had a truck full of explosives blow off a section of it, but it was quickly rebuilt.


I'm a engineering student, this shit screams either poor upkeep or poor design who doesn't account for redundancies, which is a e key aspect of civil engineering.

your post (and the neg ratings) got me curious, so I asked the only engineer I know IRL and fwiw he agrees with you.

 

[4090 Chad]

Has the media figured out how this is Trump’s fault yet?

 

[a terminal posture]

I give up, there is no getting through to you. Ask any actual engineer why truss bridges are dangerous. I only have secondhand experience and can't be fucked to reason with you anymore.

I am a literal structural engineer who designs bridges. You are some nigger retard who heard somewhere that trusses are non-redundant structures (mostly true) and trying to flex zher 'knowledge' . You know what also weren't redundant structures? The Key bridge piers. This was a failure due to multiple total substructure failures and you're jerking off about the superstructure.

 

[netscape navigating]

Holy shit. This is troublesome. How many times a ship has hit bridges. I don't think too many. It might predict the rot of US civilization.

The only collapse I've seen footage of that comes close to this is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse

This collapse was caused by collision with a ship, too

 

[Rei is Shit.]

The weight and speed of the ship are a moot point. Any bridge would have sustained heavy damage and had its bits collapse. But only a truss bridge would collapse in its entirety, which is what that section was.

Is that a trick question? Because all suspension bridge collapses resulted in their total destruction, unless you count that one case in Indonesia where two pillars were left standing.

Just lol!