Posted on 03/26/2024 7:18:01 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
Amassive cargo ship crashed into a major bridge in the Baltimore harbor early Tuesday morning, leading to a near-total collapse of the span and sending vehicles plunging into the frigid water below. A search-and-rescue effort is underway, with divers and emergency personnel desperately combing the area for people believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridge, officials said.
Latest Developments
Mar 26, 9:49 AM
Governor declares state of emergency
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has declared a state of emergency following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. "We are working with an interagency team to quickly deploy federal resources from the Biden Administration," Moore said in a statement. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott also declared a local state of emergency
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They always do, just like they blamed Shrub Jr.
Inner Harbor is beautiful……..and quite frankly uncomfortable now to say the least. Two blocks off of the Inner Harbor is nearly a nogo zone.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Loss of propulsion and rudder control definitely the safest option in a case like this.
That's how I remember it. I made the rookie mistake of booking a hotel that was about six blocks up the hill. It was a great hotel but the walks back and forth were perilous. I'm still convinced I might have witnessed a rape, looking down one of the dark back alleys.
My wife just asked, “Why would the government lie about the cause?”
Because if people knew how incompetent they were, and how vulnerable we are, there would be panic and consequences.
For all the money they spend - and they spend a lot - they cannot protect us against all of the bad actors. I have it on good authority that this administration is actually over confident in it’s ability to stop terrorists before they act.
Two teams are feverishly investigating what the ramifications are — FBI and ISIS/HAMAS. Considering the importance of the port of Baltimore to he USA, the EU will certainly study what a similar accident would do to the port of Rotterdam.
Mark video
They would have located Trump on the ship’s bridge drunk and out of uniform with some scantily clothed girl.
This is a great excuse to change the name to, oh, I dunno, maybe Michelle Obama Bridge.
Well it is 1.6 miles wide....................
Cyber Attacked??
A Ryder truckfull exploded pretty good in Kansas City.
I remember visiting the Constellation in the Baltimore harbor when I was a kid about seventy-five or eighty years ago. I was impressed.
That bridge collapse was the first thing I thought of. Fortunately there appear to have been far less people/vehicles on the Bay Bridge as were on the Silver Bridge.
Sorry, ‘Key’, not ‘Bay’.
(We’re full of bridges here...)
Somebody saved money.
Somebody is gonna get sued.
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