Major Bridge in Baltimore Collapses After Being Struck by Cargo Ship

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

If they start today, it’s going to take years to get a new bridge built and open.

They’ll fire up the money printers and put some insane completion bonus on it and the private guys will get it done asap. The 35 bridge in Minneapolis got built in about a year.

This one will take a bit longer but they will hammer it out .

 

[jeepyj]

Typically, the harbor uses pilots and tugs for large ships entering and exiting the port. Captains take over once out in the channel. This is going to majorly screw traffic and import/export.

There's a ton of ships bound for Baltimore that are just sitting near Annapolis right now.

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[JD Mark]

They’ll fire up the money printers and put some insane completion bonus on it and the private guys will get it done asap. The 35 bridge in Minneapolis got built in about a year.

This one will take a bit longer but they will hammer it out .

Private guys...in Baltimore?

 

[Scooter]

Yeah, like up here we have Sanzari, J. Creamer etc. They take guys off crews/projects and bill the .gov quadruple what the normal would be.

 

[Landslide]

 

[Landslide]

 

[DFW Rusty]

Welp.... this unlocked a new way of which I'd prefer not to die.... driving on a bridge as it falls into the water.

I feel terrible for all those that lost their lives this morning on that bridge, that had to be un-imaginable on how scary that shit had to be!

 

[aczlan]

Yeah, like up here we have Sanzari, J. Creamer etc. They take guys off crews/projects and bill the .gov quadruple what the normal would be.

I think he is saying Non-Union vs Union in Baltimore.

Aaron Z

 

[Chzbrgr]

There's a ton of ships bound for Baltimore that are just sitting near Annapolis right now.

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That is where they stage typically, outtside the bay bridge. Harbor pilots pick up there.

 

[JD Mark]

I think he is saying Non-Union vs Union in Baltimore.

Aaron Z

Correct...non-union will never happen.

 

[jeeptj19992001]

Imagine having a 30 minute commute, and waking up this morning to find out you now have a 1.5 hour commute for the next X years

Happen to me a long time ago, Over 20.
A giant sink hole opened up on rt 33 in Nazareth pa. On a Sunday evening.
Closed down the road for over year.
That Monday morning, traffic was backed up 10 miles.

 

[KungFooMASTA]

Anyone seen Mothman flying around the area recently?

 

[bgaidan]

They’ll fire up the money printers and put some insane completion bonus on it and the private guys will get it done asap. The 35 bridge in Minneapolis got built in about a year.

This one will take a bit longer but they will hammer it out .

My former employer built that new bridge. In fact, the division manager that I worked for was the lead on it. There were insane early completion bonuses on it and in turn, insane amounts of money being spent to hit them



I'd bet there were already salvage crews en route within hours of that thing going down last night. I bet they'll have the main channel opened back up in under a week. Way too much money riding on keeping that port moving.

 

[Slander]

Wild!! My wife never needs to see this, she hates bridges because they are "fickle and will just fall down". Babe no they won't.....

 

[Sceep]

I don't know shit about boats but in that last linked vid, obviously the footage is sped up, but look how big the splash/impact was. Seems like the thing was hauling ass to make that big a splash? She's got a 6'min-70'max Draught and that splash was over the deck (@ 0:44 seconds)

 

[KungFooMASTA]

Prayers for everyone involved.

 

[Motorcharge]

tinfoil speculation time

 

[bgaidan]

 

[Motorcharge]

Sir you can't park there.

 

[bad zuki]

You Can't park there,Sir.

 

[billdacat]

Watching the I95 traffic cluster fuck on Google Maps....Shit is getting ugly.

 

[bgaidan]

Holy fuck. I had to find better pictures of the intact bridge to udnerstand what I was seeing.

He hit that first double column pier on the main span almost dead-on. The whole fucking pier is laying across the bow of the ship.

It doesn't look like it did any significant damage below the waterline, which is probably a miracle in itself. If that thing were to have sunk there, it would be a bigger salvage mess than the entire bridge.

 

[Sceep]

Hot off the presses!

 

[Sluggy]

Wow that's totally f'd, hope the don't try to source all the parts from China like they did with the bay Bridge here. Ended up being a big turd that cost 4x then building it within.

Hope there wasn't that many people on the bridge late at night.

 

[bgaidan]

Fuuuuu

 

[Talon2006]

Is it just me, or did they seem like they had stopped traffic across the bridge? I see a bunch of cars going across, then don't see anymore as it got closer

 

[bad zuki]

Fuuuuu

Shout out to that ship builder. Fully loaded with containers, destroys a massive concrete pier, which drops a bridge on the bridge, and the ship still floats.

 

[Slander]

Is it just me, or did they seem like they had stopped traffic across the bridge? I see a bunch of cars going across, then don't see anymore as it got closer

It was also 1:30am. Looks like there is a construction crew up there though.

 

[Sceep]

Shout out to that ship builder. Fully loaded with containers, destroys a massive concrete pier, which drops a bridge on the bridge, and the ship still floats.

"For now"

 

[Void_of_Light]

Fuuuuu

There seems to be protection barriers around the power poles but nothing around the bridge legs? I doubt they would be very effective against a fully loaded ship, but seems weird to have 1 but not the other.