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

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

It will be named after Clive Johnson. Clive was a Boston born black man, a descendent of slaves and the first African-American to graduate with an engineering degree in the state of Massachusetts. In 1876, Clive Johnson was the actual first inventor of the bridge, which white people later took credit for.

Baltimore is in Maryland, not Massachusetts.

 

[Oxyjen]

I think 140,000 people work at that port. There is going to be a lot of jobless people.

They are mostly white (Polish) people if The Wire taught me anything.

 

[Overly Serious]

How many similar disasters would it take to bankrupt the USA?

The US is now over $34 trillion in debt. But the USA prints the world's currency. No amount of disasters will bankrupt them. But one amount of the world using something else to trade oil will wipe them out in a moment.

 

[JustStopDude]

We can see from the video that not many vehicles were on the bridge at the time. The headlights visibility is strong.

The harbor pilots, these are the local water way experts that take over the ships during entering and exiting ports, called out the emergency to the coast guard when they initially had power issues. So the coast guard had the highway shutdown, hence the lack of cars. Those on the bridge were ones too far gone for the MD state police to stop. Had that call not gone out, more cars would have been on the bridge.

Good. Let the LNG imports drop.

The US is a net exporter of oil and gas. We don't import oil and gas from other countries anymore. We really haven't done that for years.

 

[Baked Al-Aqsa]

That anyone can even pantomime concern for people living within 100 miles of D.C. is astounding to me. If the cargo ship had instead been carrying a nuclear payload, its benefit to the world would be a net positive.

Spare me the plight of the commuters. I'm more concerned about the crabs.

 

[Male Idiot]

The US is a net exporter of oil and gas. We don't import oil and gas from other countries anymore. We really haven't done that for years.

I know. I just want the eu to eat crow and list after the ruski oil.

 

[エボラちゃん]

 

[JustStopDude]

I know. I just want the eu to eat crow and list after the ruski oil.

Well some of us actually have to bring in income. We can't all just live in our parents' basement acting edgy on message boards.

 

[Dick Mason]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-conspiracy-theories-online-rcna145105

Unfounded conspiracy theories spread online after Baltimore bridge collapse​

Major news events — like the pandemic, natural disasters and mass shootings — now consistently serve as fodder for fringe figures.

Can you fringe figures quit with your conspiracy shit already? You've greatly upset Mrs. Rosenblatt here.

Well some of us actually have to bring in income. We can't all just live in our parents' basement acting edgy on message boards.

Have fun at work today! Can you pickup some pizza on the way home? I'll take out the trash tomorrow, I promise.

 

[Male Idiot]

Well some of us actually have to bring in income. We can't all just live in our parents' basement acting edgy on message boards.

The curse of the wagie. Redeem cagie sar!

 

[CHARizard]

https://twitter.com/sambrandt99/status/1772842929083543821

How many Rav4s did the Twin Towers take on 9/11?

 

[Wodanaz]

based nulledge posts. if everyone decrying this as a horrific tragedy would be willing to deport by force all useless niggers who suck up welfare, maybe I would compromise with them and say this is somewhat sad.

 

[CHARizard]

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-law-pay-port-of-baltimore-workers-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse/

https://archive.ph/iaqaw

Maryland lawmakers draft bill to pay Port of Baltimore workers impacted by Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse​

By Rohan Mattu
Updated on: March 27, 2024 / 8:51 AM EDT / CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE -- Maryland lawmakers are drafting emergency legislation for income replacement to assist thousands of Port of Baltimore workers impacted by the Tuesday collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The bridge crumbled early Tuesday after a strut was hit by a large container ship that had lost power, sending eight people into the Patapsco River. Search operations are ongoing Wednesday for six people, who are presumed dead.

"The human cost of lives lost yesterday is overwhelming and tragic. The economic and stability loss to the thousands impacted in the days ahead cannot be understated," Senate President Bill Ferguson said in a social media post Wednesday.

Ferguson, a Democrat, said he is joining Del. Luke Clippinger and other delegates representing the port to procure the emergency funding.

No further details were immediately available about the bill.

An economic lifeline​

The Port of Baltimore is the ninth busiest port in the United States, according to census data, and handled more than $80 billion in import-exports in 2023, the most in 20 years. It is also home to Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Norwegian cruise lines.

Directly, the port supports 15,300 jobs, while another 140,000 in the area are related to port activities. The jobs provide a combined $3.3 billion in personal income, according to a CBS News report.

All vessel traffic in and out of the port was suspended in the wake of the collapse, but it will remain open for trucks. The Port of Baltimore said Tuesday that it is unclear how long ship traffic will be suspended.

Search for victims ongoing​

The six men missing were working for Brawner Builders, filling potholes on the center span of the bridge, at the time of the collapse.

Search and rescue operations were suspended at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday as officials transitioned to recovery efforts. The search resumed Wednesday morning. The Coast Guard is leading the recovery mission

 

[emergenigger]

"Oh boy I sure couldn't possibly hate pajeets more than I do!"
22 Indians on a international cargo freighter:

 

[Pat Fried Rice]

"Oh boy I sure couldn't possibly hate pajeets more than I do!"
22 Indians on a international cargo freighter:

See, whenever I hear anyone complain about safety and inspection regs, I'm gonna point to incidents like this and remind these mental deficients that, a majority of the time, those regulations and rules are bought and paid for in blood. No one gives a shit until someone dies.

To play a bit of devil's advocate on myself, it really could be just a freak accident. Lord knows I've had my fair share of them in my career, but this smells more of incompetence and corner cutting than random unfortunate happenstance.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Baltimore is in Maryland, not Massachusetts.

This is true. It will have to be a local.

Real talk, right now there are dozens of offices of Baltimore, Maryland, and US civil rights grifter organizations desperately googling for a worthy black engineer or civil rights leader to name the bridge after. There is zero chance they would let it stay named for a dead white guy who wrote the national anthem of a slave country.

They also could simply rebuild the missing section to original specs and be done in 2 years. Of course that won't happen. They will cry that it had to be redesigned to be safer (not possible with this kind of accident, any more than the designers of the Twin Towers could have made their building airplane proof). Engineering companies will be falling over each other to get the bid on the most expensive and ultramodern bridge, like the Mario Cuomo bridge that replaced the Tappan Zee.

It will be a stunning architectural achievement, showcasing American ingenuity and Build Back Better. It will cost trillions and take 7 years to build.

It's all so tiresome.

 

[CHARizard]

It'll be the Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge, you all know thats what they will pick, Baltimore was in flames because of that guy.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

The demographics are ruined irreparably.

A wise man once said, that the only rational position is optimism. He said it on some podcast or something. I really liked that guy.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

See, whenever I hear anyone complain about safety and inspection regs, I'm gonna point to incidents like this and remind these mental deficients that, a majority of the time, those regulations and rules are bought and paid for in blood. No one gives a shit until someone dies.

To play a bit of devil's advocate on myself, it really could be just a freak accident. Lord knows I've had my fair share of them in my career, but this smells more of incompetence and corner cutting than random unfortunate happenstance.

It's not that pajeets don't care or hurry past safety measures; they're simply too stupid to enforce them.

A pajeet is simply too stupid to look at 10 screws and write "1 is a bit rusty and needs replaced". They look at the rusty screw and their mind goes like "uhhhh good enough" and they pass the inspection.

 

[theshitposter]

The government is corrupt. The courts are broken. The demographics are ruined irreparably. The population is complacent and docile cattle. There's no where to run and no place safe; the rest of the world is just America's property.

I don't care about a bridge or the people on it. There is no combination of words in the English language that can persuade me to give a single shit. I'm happy to see something happen for once. I hope similar things happen every day. The more terrible things that happen, the fewer economic migrants we get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHYwprmWMfY&t=35

tt 0:35