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

 

[Automaton Type 2B]

Has the death toll been confirmed?

I keep hearing conflicting reports of a "cyber attack".

 

[MadStan]

As much as this fucking physically pains me, I agree with your outrage. The cause of this whole incident was made clear the moment it was discovered it was an all Indian crew. People, this isn't hard, Indians and electricity do not mix and they're the single least competent ethnicity on the planet. They just choose a spectacularly poor moment to do the needful and fuck the ship's electrical grid.

We're talking about a country that fucked up a $2 Billion dollar submarine because the dock workers left a hatch open and no one checked.

Indians and electricity:

Spoiler: dead

 

[lol cow supreme]

There is a lot of repeated questions of "Where were the tug boats?"

With my 3000 years of turkish seamanship let me explain why there were no tugboats assigned to this passage.

The simple statement? There is no need. It is calm waters in a calm harbor with very predictable current, and the bridge encounter is during a very large run up and straight away.

Tugs are used on big ships in tight quarters, with limited maneuverability space. A group of tugs would not be practical to take a container ship on such a large straight away trip. by the time they get to the former Key bridge, they are on a large straight away. This is not "Just getting out of harbor" They are actually fully underway. In fact the bridge span was 1-2 miles away from any "maneuvering" this ship would have had to do with tugs depending on location. Its just not a tight passage and isnt done. Ships go under bridge and around things all the time without tugs. Its how the channels were established and designed. This area is literally wide open, with the span target over 1200 feet, nearly 1/4 of a mile, the Dali could have gone through sideways and and had enough room for another to pass by, or 6 of them could have passed side by side underneath with 30 feet in-between each.

Tugboats dont haul large ships through straight open areas when there theres a 1000+ foot target window they have to hit.

And you might say "ok they only have to do it through the bridge encounter" This is actually more dangerous as you have ships trying to stop and wait their turn for a tug team to come and tie up and perform the tug operations queuing on both sides of the bridge.

Would tugs have prevented this? Would having every child cross the street holding the hand of a trained crossing guard reduce pedestrian deaths? Sure.

This is what tugboats maneuver big ships around and out of port. This is Dublin.

 

[PaladinBoo]

We're talking about a country that fucked up a $2 Billion dollar submarine because the dock workers left a hatch open and no one checked.

That sounds so unbelievable but since this is pajeets we are talking about I can believe it. Pajeets are much like the dodo. You wonder how they have survived as long as they have as a people.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Well...it probably won't have the same design and would be an entirely different bridge, so as convenient the opportunity is, I won't fault them for naming it something else unless they name it after a criminal like George Floyd.

If it’s true that the DOT workers on the bridge blocked traffic before the ship hit then it needs to be named for them.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I unapologetically love this flick.

 

[inception_state]

Leaked audio from the ship during the incident.

Spoiler

It's a meme, obviously don't take this seriously. https://poa.st/@thefinn/posts/AgFq9yHp8BSARM6ZCy

 

[Margo Martindale]

Do you know who will be paying for a new bridge and all the damages? Im guessing the shipping business has some kind of insurance that wpuld cover this?

 

[Mikoyan]

At least the front stayed on.

After a bridge fell on it no less! See, you can engineer the front to stay on.

The brand new billion dollar bridge in Detroit is being named after a White Canadian hockey player, ease up on the black pills, ma boi.

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

That's because Canada's paying for that one. Though we'll see.

Don't the wokies have a hateboner for Key anyway?

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Has the death toll been confirmed?

I keep hearing conflicting reports of a "cyber attack".

I think 6 poor Spanish speaking subcontracted migrants is going to be the death toll. Thankfully they stopped traffic on the bridge about 2 minutes before the ship hit. If you watch footage you can see a few headlights clear the end of the bridge about 90 seconds before impact.

On the radio traffic you hear the guy stopping northbound traffic volunteer to go get the road crew off the bridge as soon as someone else comes to relieve him, but then the bridge was gone 30 seconds later. Guy would have died going to warn the road crew to gtfo.

You get the idea everyone thought this was just a precaution due to a ship losing steering, not a seconds from total disaster situation,

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Indians and electricity:

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It's always electricity and trains.

That sounds so unbelievable but since this is pajeets we are talking about I can believe it. Pajeets are much like the dodo. You wonder how they have survived as long as they have as a people.

Prepare to be shocked and amazed. And we outsource everything to these people, because they're cheap. But they're cheap for a reason, and we're obviously overpaying.

 

[Otterly]

In fact the bridge span was 1-2 miles away from any "maneuvering" this ship would have had to do with tugs depending on location.

Also informative. So then, why were they headed for the pillar? Doesn’t that imply they’d been drifting a while? It’s a big gap, and they seem to be on the right heading - then turn and hit. What caused the turn? Of the engines crap out and you’re heading for a huge gap you’d just go through the gap.

 

[ChadBrazilian]

Video (source) showing the aftermath:

 

[FedPostalService]

Have we considered that Gamergate may have caused this?

 

[Sicko Hunter]

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.

Just wanted to point out this user lives in Brazil. A Brazilian is trying to act smug about American infrastructure.

 

[Unique User Name]

At the very least expect some kind of debate over what the name should be when the bridge is being reconstructed or a new one is built.

Be aware that this was only a few months ago.

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Out of all the raging debates about that bridge that have gone on in the past 2 decades, the name has been settled on now for nearly 8 years. A, currently dead, octogenarian billionaire spent millions suing two federal governments because he didn't want a "government bridge" wrecking the demand for his own bridge, they uprooted a bunch of niggers in a shithole neighborhood and thought there would be a larger outcry but were surprised when they all just took the gibs for the eminent domain and moved into the white suburbs, the political climate at the time was so tenuous around funding that Canada said "fuck it, we'll pay for it all just to get all the fucking trucks out of downtown Windsor, even the American Customs building".

The name for a long time was Detroit River International Crossing or "DRIC", then New International Trade Crossing or "NITC", before the Canadian trucker association head finally did the obvious thing said the name that made sense to everyone; Detroit hockey legend and Canadian citizen Mr. Hockey himself.

Also, I can personally attest that Gordie Howe never owned slaves, and the worst thing he ever did was cameo on the Simpsons, but it was one of the good seasons.

 

[Betonhaus]

I see a lot of people saying this is some high conspiracy glow op shit. Has anyone considered that perhaps it was just a really bad accident this time? Call me a brainwashed soyboy but I can't imagine what the point would be for this one.

Is it still considered a conspiracy if the conditions that led up to the accident were deliberate? Like (((they))) wouldn't know exactly what the accident would be but they did set the stage for a big one?

 

[GunCar Gary]

subcontracted road crew guys

Spanish speaking subcontracted migrants

Spanish speaking immigrants or migrants

you sure have a lot of euphemisms for "illegal mexicans"

 

[Clarence Big Boss]

Man, my whole life bridges have always made me feel uneasy and this seriously does not fucking help, lads.

I suggest you don't watch final destination 5 then.

 

[Anti Snigger]

Jokes aside, momentum is a bitch with something this large, and when you're floating in a fluid, brakes aren't exactly something you can rely on. I can easily imagine they went to fast at a bad bearing and it was a slow motion disaster for them while they tried to do what they can. Who can say though.

I just saw a clip, the fact that they hit the bridge given the clearance in both axes is almost impressive.
These niggas were high on something, I retract this charitable poost