Nearly 800 Barges Stuck In Lower Mississippi River From Bridge Crack

[Hodrod]

Earlier this week, in a routine bridge inspection, an engineer climbed onto the section of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River and spotted a massive fracture in the frame that resulted in the immediate shutdown of the bridge on Wednesday.
Traffic is being rerouted to Interstate 55 Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, creating traffic jams in the Memphis area. On the Mississippi River, the situation is much worse. Hundreds of barrages are piling up on either side of the bridge as the US Coast Guard has closed the critical waterway.

 

[Hodrod]

This is not good...a huge amount of goods travel up and down the Mississippi river.....wonder who Biden will blame for this...(hint: Trump and the republican's)

 

[cowadle]

oh crap!!!! this is not going to end well.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I'd say replace the bridge with Rearden Metal. That should hold for a couple centuries ...

Woody

 

[adamsredlines]

Seems pretty unprecedented to have two major shipping waterways be shut down like we have recently.

 

[El Pablo]

It reopened for water traffic earlier today.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

How is sailing under the bridge now any different than a week ago? The whole goal is to not hit the bridge right? There's just as much risk of collapse now as the day it opened.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

This is not good...a huge amount of goods travel up and down the Mississippi river.....wonder who Biden will blame for this...(hint: Trump and the republican's)

Nahhhh……people are still blaming Bush for everything.

 

[tRidiot]

I'd say replace the bridge with Rearden Metal. That should hold for a couple centuries ...

Woody

Hank took off a long time ago, with his recipe. They're gonna use Biden Metal with BLM rivets. It'll last until the sun burns out.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

BLM

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