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Buttigieg says he has no idea when Baltimore bridge debris might be cleared: ‘A very complex process’
Nypost ^ | 03/31/2024 | Ryan King

Posted on 03/31/2024 10:30:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27
Send military divers down with explosive charges to divide the bridge into pieces. Then drag the pieces out of the shipping channel.

The munitions to do this should be on site already. The divers should have the area mapped out already. Plans to protect or replace underwater utility or communication lines should already be underway.

This ain't no Manhattan Project.

41 posted on 03/31/2024 12:02:03 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Keep the channel closed up through the election, so even if Biden loses, it becomes Trump’s problem.

It is not necessary to rebuild the bridge first. A demolition and removal operation should be able to take care of the channel blockage in days. When a ship was wedged in the Suez Canal in 2021, the salvage crews got the wreckage cleared in just six days.

Comes down to how important it is to restore the flow of commerce.


42 posted on 03/31/2024 12:03:24 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Buttigieg says he has no idea when Baltimore bridge debris might be cleared: ‘A very complex process’"

Put up a sign that says "Free Scrap."
43 posted on 03/31/2024 12:04:16 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Delmarksman
Anyone who says they have any clue whatsoever how long this is going to take is lying to you.

True to a point. But since this next bridge will be a replacement, the designers of the new structure have how-ever-many years of historical data to use that the original builders didn't have. And that counts for quite a lot. Look back at the SanFran earthquake and how quickly things were rebuilt then. But, DEFINITELY, with Buttigieg in charge, we are looking at the middle of next century for completion.
44 posted on 03/31/2024 12:06:43 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bless his heart ¿


45 posted on 03/31/2024 12:07:53 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not surprising...

I’m betting it will be close to the time that the INITIAL 60 billion has been thoroughly distributed to all corrupt communist entities in the U.S. and the call goes out for the taxpayers to raise the ante...

This boondoggle will similar to the Covid boondoggle as an enrichment process for communist politicians and groups, as well as another big lever to impose even more tyrannical controls on the peasants...

The American Communist Party just got its dreamed for pre-election event...


46 posted on 03/31/2024 12:08:42 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( hen we so desperately need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This little dork was unable to keep the potholes filled in South Bend. And he’s an authority on this process why?


47 posted on 03/31/2024 12:10:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Wow. That itself looks dangerous and needs care and planning.


48 posted on 03/31/2024 12:16:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: William Tell

There are dead people down there whose folks want their bodies to bury, with some apparently trapped under the fallen pieces of bridge.


49 posted on 03/31/2024 12:18:29 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The brilliance of homosexuals has always impressed me. I’ll bet his Zero Gs “advisors” and Tik Tok “influencers” told him to say that.


50 posted on 03/31/2024 12:35:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Xiden tries to come off as a tough guy but can't stop a herd of raggedy ass Mexicans from invading.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whatever happened to the American can-do spirit that got the USS Yorktown repaired in 3 days to take part in Midway.


51 posted on 03/31/2024 12:45:57 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These know nothings even admit they know nothing. This guy gets paid by taxpayers to do nothing.


52 posted on 03/31/2024 12:51:16 PM PDT by dforest
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Buttboy has no mechanical concept of how to cleanup this mess. He is better versed on how to acquire maternity leave than to perform a major mechanical function.


53 posted on 03/31/2024 12:51:46 PM PDT by chopperk (s to )
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To: Delmarksman

A leader doesn’t say “I have no idea.” That’s what spineless bureaucrats say. A leader says “The channel will be opened in 30 days. The new bridge will be opened 5 years from today.”

My software company, and my good friend’s construction company would be out of business if we told customers “I have no idea.”


54 posted on 03/31/2024 1:03:05 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“This is going to be a very complex process, there are even now forces acting on that steel,” Buttigieg said. “So it takes a lot to make sure that it can be dismantled safely to make sure that the vessel stays where it is supposed to be and doesn’t swing out.”

It's a complex process if you let it be a complex process. If you put smart people on a complex process, and get out of their way, it stops being complex pretty quickly and starts being a matter of doing some math and taking some calculated risks.

If you insist on having unqualified people meddle and second guess, and then preen for the cameras, smart people aren't going to be willing to do the math or take those calculated risks.

55 posted on 03/31/2024 1:08:38 PM PDT by jz638
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“This is going to be a very complex process”

Kinda like men having babies?

Alfred E. Newman cracks me up.

5.56mm


56 posted on 03/31/2024 1:11:25 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not a clue as most appointees of this criminal and his administration, ITS WHAT YOU ARE NOT WHO YOU ARE


57 posted on 03/31/2024 1:15:03 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a pile of angle iron, for crying out loud. And not very thick angle iron. Forty guys with acetylene torches could have that sectioned out and gone in two weeks.

Libs are dumb and evil, telling lies to the dumb evil public.

They want this to be a three year union job.


58 posted on 03/31/2024 1:39:47 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Several FR demolition & salvage experts assured us it would be cleared in two weeks.


59 posted on 03/31/2024 2:31:12 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: hanamizu

It took these government buffoons a week to find out about the pipeline. The DOT has regulatory authority over every pipeline in the country. “Didn’t earn it” buttgiggety is a simpleton moron.


60 posted on 03/31/2024 2:33:26 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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