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Investigation. Screw that! I’m going off of assumptions and conspiracy theoriesAccident? Maybe, maybe not. That's what investigators will determine.
Investigation. Screw that! I’m going off of assumptions and conspiracy theoriesAccident? Maybe, maybe not. That's what investigators will determine.
No surprise there.Investigation. Screw that! I’m going off of assumptions and conspiracy theories
They don't teach that asina in my old-people's yoga class. Seems like tights would make it easier.Timeline of events from the Baltimore Sun this morning.
The tug boats left too soon.
Also....
I came across a portrait of the modern day mainstream broadcast network teleprompter reading talking head.
You know, the ones that claim to be hard working investigative journalists. Those "wanna' be an actor" types who actually spend their time in wardrobe, makeup, and on the plastic surgeons table while their minimum wage college kid staff surf the various social media platforms looking for their specified brand of "journalism" to report as fact based researched confirmed truthful information.
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TUG BOAT ANNIE!!!When I was a boy (1950s), the ship The Island Mail ran aground on an uncharted rock in Puget Sound just inside the Straits of Juan de Fuca. According to my father who was the insurance underwriter and had to visit the stricken vessel, the rock was common knowledge to harbor pilots. They came aboard at Port Angeles. The pilot (who shall remain nameless as I know his grand niece) in this case knew or should have known the location of the rock. I don't know or recall if he was censured in any way.
Decades later, after the city fathers had been arguing about as long over the need for a new high-level bridge over the Duamish River (functionally similar to the Ohio in the Baltimore case), the same pilot was in the wheelhouse of a ship that struck the pier on which was mounted the turntable for the movable span of the Spokane Street bridge. The strike knocked the pier just enough so the span could be swung only with great difficulty. The ships master was known to have a drinking problem and the pilot was IIRC by then 89 years old. He retired immediately afterwards. His niece pled no comment when I asked her about it at the time.
The city council finally relented and approved the bonds to build a new bridge but only on the cheap.
Three decades later that bridge was closed for more than two years while repairs were made to steel-reinforced concrete that hadn't been properly sealed during construction. There was litigation in all three cases. There will be litigation in Baltimore. There will be a new bridge in Baltimore.
Will they finally require tugs in Baltimore? There is a great movie, "Tug Boat Annie" (Annie Foss) starring Marjorie Main, made in 1933 about the rescue of a passenger liner from the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The tug used in the movie was the Aurthur Foss, a coal-burning steamer. With the proceeds from the movie rental Foss repowered the tug with a diesel making it one of the most powerful ocean-going tugs on the West coast. In 1941 it narrowly escaped being bombed by the Japanese near Midway Is. after towing a floating dry dock from San Francisco to Hawaii, then fuel and supply barges on to Midway. There is a long Wikipedia article about the Aurthur Foss. These tugs earn their keep or did in the day when economics allowed it. BTW the Aurthur Foss still sits on Lake Union in Seattle and last I knew was still operable.
Those massive protective bases were incorporated into support bases in reaction to just such an earlier accident just like this one.bridges built now , if done properly, have massive concrete bases which protect the bridge from such impacts. That one didn’t.
The only BS post are yours. You people crack me up. You rail against the government, but the government is the only one looking out for you. 'Merica is based on greed, or more correctly termed a free market economy. You know what suffers in a free market economy, anything that takes away from the bottom line. The balance to this is the big ol bad government who imposes regulations on a whole host of things to include safety, all which would not happen for others to independently implement (because again, it takes away from the bottom line). So what you are actually advocating for is government intervention yet on the other hand you rail against the government. What a bunch of flipping hypocrites.Groveling now huh?
If you get called out on your BS posts try owning up to them rather than posting more BS. Or do you just get your jollies taunting others while contributing falsehoods?