My first wife and I used to ride my motorcycle to Bethany Beach for the weekend, maybe twice a month when we were young. Crossing the Chesapeake Bridge I would ride on the grates so we could look down at the boats, she would tighten up from looking down and hearing the tires "sing" from the steel grates.All my childhood nightmares. Falling, Falling off a bridge, Falling of a high bridge in to water, drowning.
A tragedy for all lost souls.
Yeah? Well, diesel fuel can’t melt bridge pylons.Because it didn't happen that's why, plenty of video, professionals at the con.
This has happened before. Barges hit bridges all the time, the sunshine Bridge in FL.
Like a house of cards.I understand how trusses work and how strong they are in plane they are constructed for. But it's still amazing how fragile that entire structure looks when hit like that. Just amazing.
It needs a few metric tons of Magnesium to help it along, oh and a 1,000 lbs of tannerite.Yeah? Well, diesel fuel can’t melt bridge pylons.
Wake up, sheeple!
Were there any Mothman reported sightings prior to the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed?
Baltimore is point-to-point, less than 300 miles from Point Pleasant West Virginia.
Care to share your insight?honestly with all my experiences working down in Balmer. It doesn’t surprise me that something like this would happen over there.
Either trying to slam the brakes with reverse thrust, or accelerating to regain steerage and get water passing over the rudder. After the first power loss they probably freaked out when they realized control was lost and they were headed for the pylon. I'm guessing they tried to reverse and stop. Literally the worst possible time to lose control. It's not a car, without power they lost rudder control completely.Forgive my ignorance but could the thick smoke be acceleration?
It's not always about mass loss of life. Creating chaos and possible long term major inconvenience for all the shipping/transportation in that area is way more damaging than killing a couple hundred people...This was not intentional. If it were some kind of terrorist attack, why not do it about 10 hours later during rush hour? Another few hundred people dead at least.
There's no physical lever or wheel on the bridge that can turn the rudder without power. The rudder weighs several tons and has to fight the flow of water, it needs power, and presumably hydraulics.So a ship loses power, there’s no rudder control? No back up system?
Forgive my ignorance but could the thick smoke be acceleration?