You missed that my comment had to do with bridges in Iowa, not this particular incident?
Bridge Collapses in Baltimore
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This was close a few days ago:
Update on Next Cruise After Carnival Cruise Ship Fire
Carnival Cruise Line has updated guests on ship operations and the next cruise after Carnival Freedom had a second funnel fire.
www.cruisehive.com
Shades of this historical incident...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse
That would be my guess but I'm more worried about delays on some containers we have going through Philly. I believe ships run North-South along the east coast, so it would probably make sense the ports north of Baltimore would try and handle the load.
It had 2 power failures before it hit. Both times it came back on within seconds.
The driver of the truck was heard yelling “have you ever noticed we keep funding but they keep needing improvement?!”
Philly is possible too,. Though thebig container ships that run through Baltimore, usually do not call Philly.
The rotations are normally Jersey, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah any combination as it relates to cargo from Asia.
The carriers are better equipped to divert cargo amongst those ports. On dock rail etc.
Philly is more of a refrigerated container port. Central/South America produce goes through Philly as well as Wilmington. Savannah also sees its share.
March and April are the lightest container volume months. So the ports should be able to handle it. If this was August/September it would be ugly
Any monster bridge makes me tense up. There's one on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi that you approach down a long straight highway and you can see the superstructure of the bridge from miles away, It just keeps growing bigger and bigger and your whole body becomes more and more tense until the bridge fills your windshield. It's the most frightening approach to a bridge I've found yet and then you still have to cross the damned thing.
As a kid I was always freaked out by the Fort Madison bridge over the Mississippi. Always seemed like an awfully big section of steel rotating and couldn't wrap my head around how it could be stable especially with train tracks underneath.
What kind of pylon are you thinking they would use that would stop a cargo ship?
Infrastructure is still underfunded. It'll always be a money pit, but a necessary one.
That being said, the bidding process and the fact that most work is done by private contractors adds so much red tape and waste than if the government could just build the project themselves.
