Here’s the million-dollar question nobody is asking about the Baltimore bridge collapse…

https://revolver.news/ ^ | 3/27/2024

[VastRWCon]

“That bridge will never be rebuilt period”

Correct, if tax payer’s are paying for it, under bidens watch, nothing will be built back better.

[Texas resident]

Thank ya. Thank ya very much.

h/t Elvis

[Elsie]

Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" showing spelling and punctuation
from Francis Scott Key's manuscript in the Maryland Historical Society collection.

 

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

 

 

(I see the problem)

[Elsie]

After the 1994 Northridge earthquake we rebuilt the freeway overpasses in under 90 days.

Bingo!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The pennies made from selling the border wall will not be enough to pay the families who suffer from a criminal act committed by someone who crossed our open borders during the Biden administration,” railed Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford.

Does anybody trust Lankford after he pushed a mindless "border deal" that would have depended on Biden and his party to fix the problem?

[PubliusMM]

And, why isn’t the shipping company being held to account? Seems they should be shouldering the bill to replace that bridge, not the American People.
And, they do have some mighty deep pockets at Maersk...

[Elsie]

I still do not understand why the ship turned into the bridge when it was drifting past.

'Drifting' is what an object does when moving at the same speed as the water it is floating in.

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All sort of conflicting reported answers on what the pilot did or did not do.

Well; it's the internet so we have that going for us.

[Elsie]

From the starboard side, cranes and crews can remove all the cargo weight and then strip down the ship.

This would depend I think, on whether the support was just knocked over, or whether the ship had enough inertia to ride UP onto the support base and is resting ON it.

Have we any pictures from the side to see if the waterline on the hull is at an angle?

[Elsie]

There are other bridges out there just awaiting your arrival!

[Elsie]

Aren’t they ALL built this way?

[ridesthemiles]

ONE report says the ship is ‘bottomed’ in 25 feet of water.

THAT SEEMS VERY SHALLOW DRAFT FOR A SHIP THAT SIZE.

[Elsie]

I’ve noticed from GoogleEarth© that there didn’t seem to be much traffic across it during the day.

[ridesthemiles]

Tyson pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa just closed & put almost 2,000 out of work. Town is about 7,000 population.

MAYTAG operated out of NEWTON, IOWA, for YEARS.

THEN WHIRLPOOL bought Maytag & CLOSED the plant.

“WHIRLPOOL” Maytags are junk.

GLAD I GOT MINE BEFORE THIS HAPPENED.

[Elsie]

Yet THESE three presidents...

(I hope this is a fish story Ol' Joe is telling!)

[Bonemaker]

“Then it will fall down again.”

Without even having to be hit.

[ridesthemiles]

AND——ASPHALT comes from fossil fuels !!!!!!!

[Sirius Lee]

Welcome to the New America.

In sounds like ever project in New Jersey since the beginning of time.

[Elsie]

indeed!

When the 'containers' are stacked 9 high!!

Click THIS for bigger picture --} https://www.palmbeachpost.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/03/26/PWIL/73112115007-p-08-francis-scott-key-bridge-20240326.jpg?crop=3399

[Elsie]

Nine of them gets you 76.5 - 85.5 feet off the deck!

[Elsie]

Looks like about 50 feet or so from the deck to the water...

Seems unstable to me!