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BBC News - Baltimore: Key Bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship. -- (link)

Posted by LMS (aka RufusS) Mar 26 '24, 00:49

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ouch! -- nm - Karl_S Mar 26, 05:45
Expect this to be offline for months. This isn't a quick 28-day job to replace a few sections like Atlanta few years ago. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 05:41 5
- I think they’ll clear enough of the fallen debris quick so the commercial ship traffic can get to the harbor quickly, but replacing the bridge - Landbeck Mar 26, 05:45 3
  - Correct. Restoring the waterway won't take long. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:03 2
    - Depends on the type. They could speed it up by constructing a different type of bridge. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 06:04 1
      - True doctrine. Engineering and construction have changed in the past half century since this bridge was built, it took five years then. -- nm - Landbeck Mar 26, 06:16
- I'd imagine years. that whole bridge is toast -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 05:45
Yikes. -- nm - znufrii Mar 26, 05:39
Closeup shot -- (link) - budice Mar 26, 05:20
I feel like it should have all collapsed like that, but I'm not an engineer. - ty97 Mar 26, 05:14 4
- very common for bridges to fail in this way. Especially ones with large spans -- nm - Karl_S Mar 26, 05:41 1
  - It was a continuous truss, meaning the weight was distributed across the entire structure instead of each individual span. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 26, 06:30
- Decline is correct. Failure type is going to depend on how it was constructed. This is very rare but not impossible -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 05:37
- not an engineer, but from my vast experience with bridge building apps on my phone, suspension bridges are all interconnected -- (edited) - decline Mar 26, 05:20
that is crazy. lucky it was 1:30 AM and not PM for sure though -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 26, 04:27
Trying to be optimistic, early in the video you can see trucks moving along the bridge but at impact I couldn't see any vehicles. - Max Mar 26, 04:03 2
- CNN is saying at least 7 missing people. -- nm - Inigo Mar 26, 04:06 1
  - There was a construction crew doing pavement repairs on the bridge but also reports of multiple cars in the water -- nm* - decline Mar 26, 05:14
Holy crap. I saw the video 5 minutes ago and just assumed it was fake. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 26, 03:58
With the amount of sea faring cargo that goes in and out of the Baltimore harbor, I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before. - Landbeck Mar 26, 03:13 2
- Oh, man. I didn't know your IM. I've driven across that bridge hundreds of times. -- nm - Inigo Mar 26, 05:27 1
  - Yeah, that day there was an accident in the tunnel, so the bridge was faster. And I usually went south on I-97, but the state road - Landbeck Mar 26, 05:43
wtf, the ship had two pilots.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 26, 02:07 2
- The ship appeared to be losing power in the time leading up to the inpact, lights on and off. Likely they couldn't steer and just drifted. -- nm - colin Mar 26, 04:19
- So is that too many or not enough? -- nm - mafic Mar 26, 03:30
That video footage is intense. Good thing it didn't happen at a busier time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 26, 01:00

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