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

 

[dustbuster]

My deepest condolences to the families of these men from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. They took on the burden of moving to the USA to support their families back home, and the USA rewarded them by dropping a shoddily constructed bridge without redundancies on them, and now idiots on forums all over will be laughing about how happy they are that "at least the victims weren't white".

If the Democrats won't defend America against invaders, at least their neglected infrastructure will.

 

[Desu Mountain]

My deepest condolences to the families of these men from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. They took on the burden of moving to the USA to support their families back home, and the USA rewarded them by dropping a shoddily constructed bridge without redundancies on them, and now idiots on forums all over will be laughing about how happy they are that "at least the victims weren't white".

¡Me amarraron como puerco!

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

My deepest condolences to the families of these men from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. They took on the burden of moving to the USA to support their families back home, and the USA rewarded them by dropping a shoddily constructed bridge without redundancies on them, and now idiots on forums all over will be laughing about how happy they are that "at least the victims weren't white".

If it was shoddily constructed, it wouldn't have lasted for almost 50 years straight and required a direct hit from a container ship to take it down.

 

[Susanna]

If it was shoddily constructed, it wouldn't have lasted for almost 50 years straight and required a direct hit from a container ship to take it down.

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Points five and six.

 

[I Do Not Post]

this is so sad alexa play cumtown baltimore impressions compilation

 

[Adolphin]

Empire in decline.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Points five and six.

That doesn't mean it was shoddily constructed, that means it wasn't constructed with modern container ships going past it in mind.

 

[dustbuster]

lasted for almost 50 years

Romans built bridges out of stone and sand and they're still standing.
They often went without maintenance for centuries.
Some have fallen, to modern artillery fire.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Pittsburgh bridge collapses in 2022.

Norfolk Southern Train derailment in Ohio in 2023

California-Nevada pipeline leak in 2023.

Baltimore bridge collapses in 2024.

Almost a year ago, I said this:

America’s infrastructure, manufacturing base, and agricultural sector appear to be under a silent attack.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Romans built bridges out of stone and sand and they're still standing.
They often went without maintenance for centuries.
Some have fallen, to modern artillery fire.

Which bridges in particular were without maintenance for centuries?

 

[Breadbassket]

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For Point 5 "The Key Bridge has almost no redundancy - the ability to function when damaged" and Point 6 "Pillars not prepared to handle modern cargo ships", one must wonder how many bridges have been constructed with functionality in mind after a container ship collides with one of its support columns.

If it stood for 47 years before this incident, when a massive vessel ran into it, is the design itself really at fault?

To get an idea of scale here: Trajan's Bridge across the Danube was 3,724 feet long, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was 8,636 feet long.

 

[dustbuster]

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California-Nevada pipeline leak in 2023.

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Baltimore bridge collapses in 2024.

Almost a year ago, I said this:

America isn't under "silent attack"
It's under OVERT attack.. by Democrats.

 

[Me262PrinceOfTurboJet]

Those spics would still be alive if they didn't come here. I know we're all very sad that some dime a dozen beasts of burden took a swim, but I'm sure they'll get a nice funeral service courtesy of our tax dollars. They'll be playing The Mexican Hat Dance on the organ, while their lowrider hydraulic caskets are bouncing, and their sombrero slips off a little more with each bounce. Maybe they can get tombstones with the epitaph "He didn't fly so good."

 

[draggs]

lol run a modern container ship into one of muh roman bridges and the ship wouldn't even notice it was there

 

[Tealeaf]

For Point 5 "The Key Bridge has almost no redundancy - the ability to function when damaged" and Point 6 "Pillars not prepared to handle modern cargo ships", one must wonder how many bridges have been constructed with functionality in mind after a container ship collides with one of its support columns.

A bridge with a redundant design will, at minimum, stay standing with the remaining support columns. Failures are localized to the actual failed part instead of propagating through the entire structure. This bridge failed far beyond the one lost column. That’s not redundant.

Even higher redundancy would allow for an entire support column to fail without (completely) collapsing the bridge deck. If the deck twists and deforms instead of straight up collapsing, that’s pretty good redundancy.

 

[draggs]

A bridge with a redundant design will, at minimum, stay standing with the remaining support columns. Failures are localized to the actual failed part instead of propagating through the entire structure. This bridge failed far beyond the one lost column. That’s not redundant.

Even higher redundancy would allow for an entire support column to fail without (completely) collapsing the bridge deck. If the deck twists and deforms instead of straight up collapsing, that’s pretty good redundancy.

So they should have built muh redundancies which would have closed off the port of Baltimore to modern freighter traffic? That sounds like a really retarded idea

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

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Pittsburgh bridge collapses in 2022.

That bridge was/is maintained by the City of Pittsburgh and owned by the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania. It fell on the city to maintain it and they didn't. That said, the new bridge already was completed over a year ago and it didn't take forever to construct as some assumed.
https://www.asce.org/publications-a...ollow-bridge-was-replaced-in-less-than-a-year

 

[CowPox]

The bridge expert kiwi's should all be round up on a container ship and sunk in the deep cold ocean. I've noticed that you are gay etc.

 

[dustbuster]

That bridge was/is maintained by the City of Pittsburgh and owned by the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania. It fell on the city to maintain it and they didn't. That said, the new bridge already was completed over a year ago and it didn't take forever to construct as some assumed.
https://www.asce.org/publications-a...ollow-bridge-was-replaced-in-less-than-a-year

That's less a bridge and more a large overpass.
The cost increases exponentially by scale.

 

[Tealeaf]

So they should have built muh redundancies which would have closed off the port of Baltimore to modern freighter traffic? That sounds like a really retarded idea

Having less of the bridge fall into the shipping lane would be strictly better.