The obliteration of a 3,300 acre solar farm and, consequently, an environmental catastrophe in waiting is newsworthy. I’m not so sure about CNN’s front page article concerning Eva Mendes deciding to raise her own kids.
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If you ever want to see what people are going to post here before they post it just go there. It's comical.
And seriously - the bridge took a direct hit from a 95K ton cargo ship.
South Carolina Nancy Mace (R).................why are there still old bridges and highways after the infrastructure bill. Money not being spent on roads and bridges.
From your link:What we know about the condition of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and how this sort of collapse could happen
During its latest federal inspection, the Key Bridge scored a six out of nine, which is considered "fair." Here's what that means.
No one has obtained the maintenance records so, as far as we know, nothing.
To me a bridge shouldn't have the entire thing collapse because one section did. But, yes, nothing is really going to stop at least a collapse when I giant ship runs into it.
Because it’s a big country with lots of infrastructure that needs to be updated?
To be fair - large sections of the Francis Scott Bridge are still standing. Technically, it is a partial collapse.
Yeah...that's basically going to be said no matter what, imo, because statements made can be used for liability. So any reasonable initial response will be to deny, deny, deny until information comes out that can't be denied. I'm not saying that it will eventually be found out that the bridge was in poor repair, though, just talking about the smartest legal way to initially respond.
The parts that are standing are the concrete parts. The metal parts all collapsed it the collapse spanned to parts that were on the other side of supports of the section that was hit.To be fair - large sections of the Francis Scott Bridge are still standing.
Just so happens that the ship hit the part actually spanning the water
Crazy right?
When you let things all break down over decades, yes, trying to fix it all at once is much more difficult.
You are saying that the bridge just fell down? It was time, right?
Are you in the correct thread?
I don't know how you came to that conclusion.
I'm in the correct head it appears
The amount of kinetic energy that went through that bridge had to be astronomical. Someone much smarter than I am can do the math.
Not really, imo. The parts that collapse should only be the parts supported by the actual support that was struck. It should be designed to have each segment supported independently on each support beam the the bridge was all connected. In other words, it should be designed to break apart independently on the red lines I drew, not all be connected together.
Has any bridge of that type taken a direct hit from a 95K cargo ship stood after?
Or rethink bringing these monsters up rivers and into ports.