Kentucky Windage Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Just saw some pretty wild video of an active bridge over Baltimore harbor completely collapse. Early reports are day that authorities are searching for at least 20 people. It's believed that the cause of the bridge failure was a cargo ship that made contact with one of the support columns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jumper_Dad Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Holy Cow!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumper_Dad Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Looks like ship was in distress, losing power off and on and huge amount of smoke coming from it prior to hitting the bridge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jumper_Dad Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 31,000 cars a day cross the FSK Bridge, all of that traffic will now be forced to use one of two tunnels. Side note, Thank God this didn't happen during rush hour when the bridge was loaded with commuters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFire Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 This is basically one of my greatest “irrational” fears - that I’ll be on a bridge that collapses. Just horrific and yes, thankful this happened at the time of night it did to limit casualties. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchs_uk9 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 This shows the size and power of these container ships. The bridge folded like an erector set. Terribly sad situation. @Jumper_Dad mentioned the time of day; I think I saw something this morning that the rescue squad thought it was somewhere between 7-20 cars on the bridge when it collapsed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kentucky Windage Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Going to be a major supply chain ripple effect. Baltimore is a major coastal harbor. I have to think this would increase river traffic along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguru Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 7 hours ago, gchs_uk9 said: This shows the size and power of these container ships. The bridge folded like an erector set. Terribly sad situation. @Jumper_Dad mentioned the time of day; I think I saw something this morning that the rescue squad thought it was somewhere between 7-20 cars on the bridge when it collapsed. Erector set is exactly what came to my mind when I saw it the first time. The whole bridge got knocked out in a flash. And yes on the ship, nearly three football fields long and probably carrying close to 100,000 tons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Breds82 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Two people rescued still 6 missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportsfan41 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 20 minutes ago, Breds82 said: Two people rescued still 6 missing. I think that's been the report since early yesterday. But as of late yesterday evening, the 6 missing are now presumed dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voice of Reason Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 I am curious how they were able to stop traffic so quickly. The ship mayday call was just a couple minutes before it hit the bridge yet they were able to stop traffic going onto the bridge. How did they do that? Toll gates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugatti Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 32 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said: I am curious how they were able to stop traffic so quickly. The ship mayday call was just a couple minutes before it hit the bridge yet they were able to stop traffic going onto the bridge. How did they do that? Toll gates? I believe the distress signal went out to emergency responders and they halted traffic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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