Posted on 03/27/2024 6:41:41 AM PDT by SJackson
No port facilities were damaged. Once the bridge debris is cleared the port will be back in operation. The temporary floating pier that the Navy is building in Gaza is for use only with specially-designed roll on-roll off ships that the Navy operates, not with normal container ships. Building a temporary pier outside of the bridge area would do nothing to get shipping back in operation.
He’s excluding something as he admits he doesn’t know anything.
That’s a beautiful expanse.
$3.07 says George Floyd Memorial Bridge is the new moniker.
Where is “Pistol” Pete Buttigieg at on this? You know “The United States Secretary of Transportation”. Seems like there’s been a lot of this happening since Pete was put in charge, trains derailing, doors and wheels falling off of airplanes, 30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappearing and now ships running into bridges. Pete, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
One of these fellows told me in detail of how, through some college/military program related in some way to the CIA (sorry, can't recall what) he was asked to write a paper detail how to take down New York City. He talked of transportation and communication, beginning with the bridges. Obvious, you say? It was an assignment to college freshman in 1970's. For all its obviousness, it seems to have been the product of some consideration. It was a plan.
My recollection of his "plan" was called immediately to memory when reading that the destruction of the bridge was an “‘absolutely brilliant strategic attack’ on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it.” Sure, they know it. They've been making it a freshman project for how many years now?
All to say that, while am repelled by knee-jerk conspiracy-type theses, I certainly agree with the assertion that the IC knows a good plan for domestic destruction when it sees one.
And I lean towards trusting Horowitz's judgment.
“Boat”
I'm thinking it'll be the Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge.
I’ll go with your wager...
The bigger issue is the vehicle traffic. The bridge was used for trucks with hazmat , which are not allowed through tunnels. That traffic nightmare will be there for the foreseeable future.
I would not want to be a OTR trucker heading towards the NE. It has always been congested , now only more so.
Illegal Alien Express Train Bridge
Taxpayers Chain Gang Railroad Bridge
Is ‘pistol’ or ‘holster’?
route ‘em to the ‘burbs.
Who are the vicitms in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse?
The men, who are now presumed dead, are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico
“Maybe the pilot panicked. Maybe he had a terrible lapse in judgment.”
Uh huh. maybe. And maybe he’s one of those Didn’t Earn It types.
Once and for all, the ship did drop its port anchor. There are plenty of photos that show this conclusively. Also a ship that is the length of over 3 football fields and, fully loaded, weighs over 150k tons, going about 8 knots, and has lost propulsion can easily take out almost anything in its way.
You do realize he was an officer in the Navy. Getting a little tired of the Conservative purity test and the firing squad.
lol. I don’t know and I don’t even want to think about it.
Not just him, as the incompetent face of DOT. The entire bureaucracy of the DOT is crammed with incompetent useless idiots. And they are all still at home, hiding from covid. None of them are out in the world working on a day to day basis.
“The men, who are now presumed dead, are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico “
The company that were doing the maintenance were obviously trying to do the job as cheaply as possible.
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