Have you noticed all the transportation “mishaps” since “Mayor Pete” was put in charge? In fact the only accident period was when he was on maternity leave. I bet he is really from China…..
They should have named it the GOP bridge given how fast it folded.
So you are 100% satisfied and believe 100% of the news you receive? Do you also think authority should be 100% question free? Not trying to be rude or start a fight, news and government have done much to kill my trust, and that is all news services. Awfully fast answers IMHO.
OSA needs to start a novel writing contest. Some on here obviously paid attention in their English comp classes.
lol. what a disingenuous thought. No one has to be '100%' satisfied about the news to still give the updates coming from the government credence. A rational person understands that the early reports are almost never entirely correct. But that doesn't mean they are intentionally misleading, either.
If another source has facts that contradict the official report, those should be considered too. But 'it doesn't look like i think it should look' isn't contradictory proof here. Nor is the fact the the bridge didn't have bumpers.
That bridge had a previous strike that didn't cause this type of damage. Per a quick search, CNN had this
"In August 1980, a Japanese container ship crossing the Baltimore harbor lost propulsion about 600 yards from the Key Bridge after its electrical control board shorted out in the early morning hours. The ship then crashed into the bridge, colliding with one of its piers, according to a National Research Council report on ship-bridge collisions.
The collision ripped out a 30-foot section of a protective structure around the bridge’s concrete piling, according to a 1981 article published in The Evening Sun newspaper that cited a Coast Guard report on the incident. But the piling itself was only chipped, not significantly damaged. The accident caused $500,000 in damage to the bridge and required $350,000 in ship repairs, the Sun reported."
It goes on to point out one big difference is that ships are now much bigger.
"One major difference between the two accidents was the size of the ship. Data from the maritime tracking website MarineTraffic suggests the ship that crashed into the bridge in 1980, then known as Blue Nagoya, was about a third of the length and a fraction of the weight of the Dali."
So yeah, the government and news sources could be lying. Or they could be telling the truth as they currently understand it to be.
Good lord. They just can't help themselves.
All else aside, that ship appears to have a bow that sticks out further than the distance between the outer perimeter of the bumper and the pilings. It looks to me like the bow of the ship likely hit the pilings before it ran into the bumper. Add that to the possibility the incident was planned and executed ... the ship being the perfect device to take out that bridge.
Like most mass murders taking place in gun free zones, a couple of suitable tug boats guiding that ship would likely have prevented or stopped the ship from taking out that bridge, like a gun or two could stop most mass murders.
That said, bigger bumpers should have been constructed prior to allowing such large ships in that harbor. Yeah, I know. Common sense is too rare a commodity for such forethought.
Woody
Like most mass murders taking place in gun free zones, a couple of suitable tug boats guiding that ship would likely have prevented or stopped the ship from taking out that bridge, like a gun or two could stop most mass murders.
That said, bigger bumpers should have been constructed prior to allowing such large ships in that harbor. Yeah, I know. Common sense is too rare a commodity for such forethought.
Woody
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