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You know Boeing is sending a nice fruit basket to the container ship industry.
 
At least 10 vehicles and 7 construction workers on the bridge, and your response is that's awesome??! What a garbage fucking response. Maybe just stick to posting your videos nobody watches.
 
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The dead were already dead before I posted. They are still dead now. My posting R.I.P. wasn't going to save one single life. Period.

Before crapping on another member here, you should understand. I am still recovering and my emotions don't always match the situation. If I see a tragedy in a good mood, my response will be different from a depressed mood. I am in a great mood this morning. And the video of the bridge collapse was awesome to see, just like in a movie. I posted what I saw. You post what you want.

Supposedly it's a free forum. Apparently... not if you are different.

One last thing. If you don't like me or my posts. Intelligent people use the ignore function...

Edit: You care for Ukrainians, yet turn a blind eye to Palestinians being starved to death by our ally Israel. If you can do that, you are nothing more than a callous hypocrite yourself.
 
Road Ratt said:
Edit: You care for Ukrainians, yet turn a blind eye to Palestinians being starved to death by our ally Israel. If you can do that, you are nothing more than a callous hypocrite yourself.
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WTF are you talking about? you're right, ignore function is the way to go.
 
Ive not seen anything written or in videos, if there were tugs assisting? One of the reasons tugs are used in ports to to guide ships at a safe and accurate pace.
 
Just read where the the three tugs were on the way, so ship was not assisted. Three tugs with big power and most do now days may/would have helped contain the run a way ship.
 
Road Ratt said:
The dead were already dead before I posted. They are still dead now. My posting R.I.P. wasn't going to save one single life. Period.

Before crapping on another member here, you should understand. I am still recovering and my emotions don't always match the situation. If I see a tragedy in a good mood, my response will be different from a depressed mood. I am in a great mood this morning. And the video of the bridge collapse was awesome to see, just like in a movie. I posted what I saw. You post what you want.

Supposedly it's a free forum. Apparently... not if you are different.

One last thing. If you don't like me or my posts. Intelligent people use the ignore function...

Edit: You care for Ukrainians, yet turn a blind eye to Palestinians being starved to death by our ally Israel. If you can do that, you are nothing more than a callous hypocrite yourself.
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Search and rescue is ongoing in the water. Infrastructure of our country was destroyed. The city of Baltimore is going to suffer economically from this, surely. If you think a tragedy like this is awesome, you should just watch some planned implosion events or something. Sly joking about Boeing is probably in bad taste too, but at least it was funny. Your post was celebrating American deaths. Wow.
 
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Road Ratt said:
The dead were already dead before I posted. They are still dead now. My posting R.I.P. wasn't going to save one single life. Period.

Before crapping on another member here, you should understand. I am still recovering and my emotions don't always match the situation. If I see a tragedy in a good mood, my response will be different from a depressed mood. I am in a great mood this morning. And the video of the bridge collapse was awesome to see, just like in a movie. I posted what I saw. You post what you want.

Supposedly it's a free forum. Apparently... not if you are different.

One last thing. If you don't like me or my posts. Intelligent people use the ignore function...

Edit: You care for Ukrainians, yet turn a blind eye to Palestinians being starved to death by our ally Israel. If you can do that, you are nothing more than a callous hypocrite yourself.
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Intelligent people don't take pleasure in tragedy.....or make excuses when they exercise poor judgment.
 
I don't know Baltimore very well, but from what I have read, it sounds like this would be the equivalent of the Markham bridge or maybe the I-5 bridge being destroyed.
 
How quaint, ones emotions explain how someone responds to something.

I should use that excuse when I yell "Yahtzee" when I see a dog getting beaten.
 
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I don't know Baltimore very well, but from what I have read, it sounds like this would be the equivalent of the Markham bridge or maybe the I-5 bridge being destroyed.
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Not really.

The FSK bridge has about 30K cars per day, Marquam has 140K per day, Fremont about 101K. Hell, Ross Island has 60K a day.

Based on usage, I'd say it's more like the Sellwood, Steel, Hawthorne or Broadway.

Not discounting the importance of the bridge there, it is because there are far fewer bridges across that body of water.
 
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I don't know Baltimore very well, but from what I have read, it sounds like this would be the equivalent of the Markham bridge or maybe the I-5 bridge being destroyed.
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The original meaning of the word would seem to be applicable. But most people use awesome to basically mean "badass."

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I don't know Baltimore very well, but from what I have read, it sounds like this would be the equivalent of the Markham bridge or maybe the I-5 bridge being destroyed.
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Long one similar to Astoria Bridge
 
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Danish shipping giant Maersk has dropped Baltimore from all its services following Tuesday's horror bridge collapse, which caused the company to suffer over a three percent share price drop.

Hours after the cargo ship struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge overnight, sparking massive rescue efforts, the company said it will stop servicing the Port of Baltimore 'for the foreseeable future.'

'Due to the damage to the bridge and resulting debris, it will not be possible to reach the Helen Delich Bentley port of Baltimore for the time being,' the company said in a statement. 'In line with this, we are omitting Baltimore on all our services for the foreseeable future, until it is deemed safe for passage through this area.'
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What are all those dock workers going to do... this is going to have so many ripple effects.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Danish shipping giant Maersk has dropped Baltimore from all its services following Tuesday's horror bridge collapse, which caused the company to suffer over a three percent share price drop.

Hours after the cargo ship struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge overnight, sparking massive rescue efforts, the company said it will stop servicing the Port of Baltimore 'for the foreseeable future.'

'Due to the damage to the bridge and resulting debris, it will not be possible to reach the Helen Delich Bentley port of Baltimore for the time being,' the company said in a statement. 'In line with this, we are omitting Baltimore on all our services for the foreseeable future, until it is deemed safe for passage through this area.'
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That statement seems at the very least tone-deaf and almost a threat to officials not to penalize them too much or they won't come back. You have the immediate loss of life and you have the long-term loss of work and people's livelihoods.
 
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That statement seems at the very least tone-deaf and almost a threat to officials not to penalize them too much or they won't come back. You have the immediate loss of life and you have the long-term loss of work and people's livelihoods.
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It's going to be interesting to see what an investigation finds. Why did it lose power? Was someone drunk? etc etc
 
Natebishop3 said:
It's going to be interesting to see what an investigation finds. Why did it lose power? Was someone drunk? etc etc
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There are going to be multiple news stories of how poorly maintained these ships are. How undertrained the crews are. Previous close calls. Etc. There will be congressional hearings but in the end, no meaningful changes will be made.

That's why I made my comment about Boeing. This will take a lot of attention from them.
 
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There are going to be multiple news stories of how poorly maintained these ships are. How undertrained the crews are. Previous close calls. Etc. There will be congressional hearings but in the end, no meaningful changes will be made.

That's why I made my comment about Boeing. This will take a lot of attention from them.
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Kinda like our rail roads. Nobody wants to invest in infrastructure anymore.... and it's significantly more expensive. We don't have all the dirt cheap labor that we used to have.
 
Someone just tell me how this is Pete and Joes fault.
 
Biden just said the Army Corps of Engineers will clear the channel and the feds will pay for the bridge to be rebuilt.
 
Terrible. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.

I'm confused. Was it closed for construction work?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Biden just said the Army Corps of Engineers will clear the channel and the feds will pay for the bridge to be rebuilt.
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It'll be interesting to see the MAGA response to that. Especially since they'll be against it but will take credit for it if it's popular
 
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