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I used to take that bridge daily and man it’s tall as gently caress. It feels like you are driving into the sky as you get onto the truss part. I can’t imagine how horrifying that must have been for the people on it. gently caress.
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Random Stranger posted:Large cargo ships loving things up is funnier when they're sideways in major trade routes rather than when they're collapsing bridges and killing people. They should do more of that. We had one of those too not long after the Suez Canal one in the bay just south of Baltimore, I went to gawk at it from a local park. I don’t think I’ll be doing that this time.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:05
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bolind posted:My armchair analysis: There was an entire work crew still on the bridge doing regular maintenance. In my experience driving past work crews on the key bridge this is usually painting and rust removal. It seems unlikely there was a closure since the crew wasn’t evacuated. Just “lucky” it was late at night.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:53
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dr_rat posted:And risk mummies talking over Baltimore???? The rats will take care of the mummies no problem I’m unconcerned. From an acquaintance who works in the harbor- “Its local Baltimore port hired people who pilot the ships until they get to the Bay Bridge(further south of Baltimore in the bay) - the cargo companies are not allowed to self pilot in our harbors. The pilots that move these cargo ships through the harbor are extensively experienced in navigating through those specific waters and have been cleared through the federal TWIC issuance process. From what I can gather, the ship hit a rock wall coming out of port and sustained a hull breach. Subsequently they had a total power loss. They did try to send an emergency alert indicating a hit was imminent so they could get people off the bridge and stop people from getting on, it just all happened so fast. It looked like a direct hit because the ship tried to execute a turn when power was lost and it cut their ability to continue the turn or perform further evasive maneuvers.”
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Mar 26, 2024 14:03
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goatface posted:They'll find another port. Your sex arse might be a bit late. I think we need to all sit down and think about the poor Sri Lankans that have to go without high quality Baltimore made sex arses.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:30
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6 missing, two living people recovered , one seems to be in rough shape at Johns Hopkins Shock Trauma, the other refused treatment. Crew was repairing potholes. There was some warning and attempt to get people off and prevent them from going on to the bridge but things happened very fast. All from governors press conference. Imagine being on a bridge that fell down and being like nah I’m good with the hospital ima head home.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:19
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DiomedesGodshill posted:I was wondering "why weren't there any structures to prevent a ship from even hitting a bridge support column?" I went looking around and shockingly few bridges in/around major ports have barriers around their support columns. Looks like the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into NYC has it's support columns in shallow water (it's also a suspension bridge). The Golden Gate has a barrier, but even if there are barriers I guess there's little anyone can do to stop a container ship that large from hitting a support column. There were some basic walls around the pylons but I mean is it even possible to build anything strong enough to stop something that big?
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Mar 26, 2024 15:26
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Milo and POTUS posted:...pyramids We’re trying to stop boats not store our grain buddy
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Mar 26, 2024 15:31
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Lamar Jackson quarterback of the Baltimore ravens kept saying his catchphrase Big Truss and now this happens to our big truss bridge. We need to find out what he knew and if he was trying to warn us.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:36
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Nfcknblvbl posted:Please don't make a movie after this with Marky Mark as the protagonist. *heavy Boston accent* we have to get these sex assholes to Sri Lanka I don’t give a drat about no bridge
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Mar 26, 2024 16:00
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Forget fenders were mountin rail guns to every bridge in America bb. Next time some Sri Lankan motherfuckers want to play well show em.
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Mar 26, 2024 17:25
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Mr trashwheel has his work cut out for him for awhile. Poor guy.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:01
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The tunnels still have some road work going on in the toll plazas and on 95 I believe. So basically we have 695 west which is way the hell out of the way, the two tunnels that can’t take many trucks or any hazmat and I suppose there’s also the Hanover street bridge on 2 but that’s also kind of out of the way and goes right into a fairly truck unfriendly part of the city.
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Xerol posted:The hanover street bridge is another disaster waiting to happen. I wasn't a huge fan of driving over the key/bay bridges but the hanover street bridge is a straight up nope from me. They did some work on it from 2019-2021 but yeah it’s old and it’s a mess. Also you have to drive through Brooklyn which is good if you want fentanyl and bad if you want your car to have a functional suspension from all the pot holes.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:27
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AndrewP posted:Hanover St bridge is definitely a real piece of poo poo and probably should get double checked if it’s gonna have an influx of traffic now I had to walk across it once because traffic for the ravens Super Bowl celebration thing was so bad. It was weird being able to see the water through holes in the bridge lol
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Mar 26, 2024 18:41
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Baltimore used to be the number one exporter of high quality American made sex arses. But then the silicone mines out Pittsburgh dried up and the private equity firms started making them oversees. My grandfather bought a rowhome in Brewers Hill working down at the sex rear end factory, his dad too. The last one closed back in 86, but they say sometimes when the wind is right and the tide is low you can still hear the sound of flesh on plastic, pumping away into oblivion.
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Mar 26, 2024 19:03
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Hazo posted:Can somebody explain the “sex arse” thing? Sometimes people buy sex toys to have sex with. In this case it is a small portion of the human body that includes the genitalia, a bit of torso, a butt and a small section of leg.
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Mar 26, 2024 19:27
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Wizard Master posted:I actually think the loss of human life and psychological/emotional impacts thereof is more important the the logistical issues with regards to supply chains etc. that are inevitable with an event of this magnitude I really feel for the road workers and their families in this state right now, just a year ago 6 workers died on the other side of 695 because two idiots couldn’t share the road and decided to go drive 120 mph trying to pass each other directly into a construction zone.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:16
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Vegetable posted:Collapsed bridges are how new bridges get built You have to fertilize the bay floor with bridge to make sure a new bridge grows back. It’s nature.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:36
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Build the bridge at sea level. Then build a ship elevator with a fun slide for the ship to go back down.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:09
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biznatchio posted:It's Baltimore. Just leave the ship parked and everything of value will be gone by morning. I bought this rudder straight cash I don’t have to answer for poo poo. $12,000 on Facebook marketplace must pick up.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:40
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500excf type r posted:It was like 45 billion newtons of energy, loving " errant ship" like it's a little dinghy I’m fairly sure it woke me up and I’m a couple highway exits from the bridge.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:25
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Such a big boat
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Mar 27, 2024 02:31
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Three Olives posted:1 left against medical advice, presumably because they are undocumented and/or terrified about the cost of treatment, so not a great outcome on that one. You are probably right and it’s so loving sad
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Mar 27, 2024 03:10
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I guess one of the containers that fell off the ship was full of fur pelts because they are washing up everywhere this morning. There’s about to be some thrift stores and pawn shops full of some nasty rear end fur.
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Mar 27, 2024 14:46
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wesleywillis posted:At some point in the process of rebuilding that bridge, we're going to find out that the dude who the bridge was named after, was a sex pest, racist, anti-gay or some other poo poo like that and then the new bridge will be named after a woman, someone not white/heterosexual and then it will be "THEY Don’t read the rest of the Star spangled banner poem (the defense of fort m’henry) lol
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Mar 27, 2024 19:08
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Hazo posted:Elon is push-notifying posts like this, from insane right-wing q conspiracy loons It would be hilarious how wrong they are about almost everything they say about the bridge and the conditions at the time if it weren’t so loving stupid. The part about how the key bridge only has construction at night made me laugh. I’ve been stuck in one lane traffic behind a semi struggling to climb that bridge at rush hour so many times.
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Mar 27, 2024 19:32
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Hazo posted:That’s literally the only correction in the “Readers added context” section What are you talking about, after the crash since I’m below the mason dixon line I immediately have strong opinions about states rights and that contemptible fool Abraham Lincoln.
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Medullah posted:
lol I made the mistake of opening Facebook for the first time in like 6 years and the first post was some dumb gently caress I used to work with complaining that his cruise was being canceled or changed and he said they should just send in a ship to “plow over all the bridge debris and clear a path” and that Biden was to much of a bitch to do it and Trump would have had the harbor open yesterday.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:06
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Earwicker posted:well yes, but thats eactly what spread this poo poo. giving people with paranoid conspiratorial beliefs a community full of people telling them their beliefs are correct and that they are finally hearing "the truth" is exactly what leads to destabilizing events like jan6 and the militia movement the various shootings by paranoid assholes in the last many years and whatever is going to happen next time Don’t u understand that Joe Budden did 3/26
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Mar 27, 2024 23:19
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Earwicker posted:lol yes geocities was notorious for being full of completely sane websites and an utter lack of whackjobs, basic html is clearly an impenetrable barrier conspiracy theorists cannot cross Yeah but they were mostly funny grandpa yelling about 8 dimensional bathrooms was good for a sensible chuckle, grandpa storming a pizza place looking for slave children is less so
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Mar 28, 2024 20:11
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wesleywillis posted:Has anyone said that if Baltimore had been a Russian city it would now be called blyat-imore? Suck the poo poo out of my rear end in a top hat cyka
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Mr Teatime posted:https://youtube.com/watch?v=I8F7GZnERNU&si=zn9hl4-NBL3LfXn5&t=34 Have you considered boating less poorly?
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Mar 28, 2024 23:33
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Log082 posted:As someone who grew up in Sparrows Point which is basically south Dundalk I really want you to understand how hard this made me laugh. I demand access to the back river and women with 90s haircuts.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:20
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Ralph Crammed In posted:Why make a tunnel (old tech, more or less a cave) when you can make a bridge to the future? lol I had friends that would steal the salt from roadside storage buildings to make money in Baltimore, if you put ships at robbery accessible levels next to a major highway someone’s going to be pawning entire containers.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:28
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GolfHole posted:did they fix the bridge yet People always forget to spay and neuter their bridges
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Mar 30, 2024 23:17
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biznatchio posted:It won't take 10 years. It'll be rebuilt in 18 to 36 months. That and I’m sure they’ll establish a ferry for appearances alone
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Mar 31, 2024 00:12
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500excf type r posted:Does Reckless Ric's still exist in glen burnie If you are talking about reckless Rick’s in point pleasant it’s some rams head dockside crap now
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We took all the leaning scramble addicts and piled them up into a bridge they will literally never fall down. I have never seen a motherfucker leaning fall down.
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Sophy Wackles posted:Goon project: bid for a contract to rebuild the bridge. Someone go find taxman’s spine, I have an idea.
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