|
03-26-2024, 02:22 AM | |
Chiefs
Join Date: Feb 2009
|
Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after it was struck by a container ship
|
Posts: 23,779
|
03-26-2024, 03:39 PM | #136 |
Needs more middle fingers
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: San Diego
|
|
Posts: 65,831
|
2 0 |
03-26-2024, 03:47 PM | #137 |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
|
Given how much money currently isn't flowing into that port, I'd be surprised if it takes more than a week to at least get a lane open. There are a **** ton of companies that will lose a **** ton of money with all those ships sitting idle.
|
Posts: 52,511
|
03-26-2024, 03:56 PM | #138 |
No Keys, No Problem
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver
|
Then you have to open or smash the window...swim on out. then it's get to shore or land and take them cloths off. Next it's a constant rub down and movement. Don't stay still.
|
Posts: 31,770
|
1 0 |
03-26-2024, 03:57 PM | #139 |
No Keys, No Problem
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver
|
It's not hat simple but there will be some kind of round the clock work. I'd say at least a month. They should be planning right now and getting equipment in place.
|
Posts: 31,770
|
03-26-2024, 04:01 PM | #140 |
go to work wasted
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Boise
|
good reason why Norfolk has the bridge-tunnels. Suspect Norfolk will be taking on a lot of the Eastern seaboard commerce from Baltimore for a while.
|
Posts: 2,775
|
03-26-2024, 04:04 PM | #141 |
Champion Golfer Of The Year
Join Date: Aug 2001
|
Never been on that bridge. But I spent a great deal of time recently in the southeast and have traveled over the Talmadge bridge that spans the Savannah River in Savannah and the Cooper River bridge in Charleston.
Amazing seeing the size of those ships navigating a channel so narrow and passing side by side with another of the same breadth. There is a proposal to raise the Talmadge bridge another 20 feet to nearly 200 feet, so that the largest container ships can pass underneath. They’ll replace the cables and and raise the bridge that way. I’ve taken a tour on a ship through the Savannah River and you can see the graffiti on the underside of the bridge where merchant marine folks had climbed to the top of the container as they passed the bridge and wrote messages underneath. |
Posts: 35,405
|
1 0 |
03-26-2024, 04:10 PM | #142 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2012
|
|
Posts: 6,185
|
1 0 |
03-26-2024, 04:11 PM | #143 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
|
it took 13 months to rebuild I35 in MPLS. Just for comparison.
|
Posts: 38,312
|
03-26-2024, 04:13 PM | #144 |
What's up braj?
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Placencia, Belize
|
I haven't read the thread but my guess is the ship lost power
|
Posts: 16,313
|
03-26-2024, 04:20 PM | #145 |
No Keys, No Problem
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver
|
|
Posts: 31,770
|
03-26-2024, 04:24 PM | #146 |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
|
I have to imagine that the design process will slow things down, too. I'm sure there will be endless debates about how to make it so strong that it can withstand a ship impact in the future.
|
Posts: 52,511
|
03-26-2024, 04:24 PM | #147 | |
Fight, build, win!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: KC
|
Quote:
Sent from my SM-G986U1 using Tapatalk |
|
Posts: 25,262
|
03-26-2024, 04:29 PM | #148 |
MER
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Colorado
|
|
Posts: 23,340
|
1 0 |
03-26-2024, 04:30 PM | #149 |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
|
Does there have to be a new bridge? How about going with a fun and retro ferry system?
|
Posts: 143,131
|
03-26-2024, 04:32 PM | #150 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: KC
|
|
Posts: 7,571
|
|
|