bumpers on the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge in SF
bumpers on the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge in SF
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
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Not very substantial....
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Temporary channel open, first ship through......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Local News here.. channel/debris clearing described as a large, potentially fatal “Jenga” game.. if the salvage crews remove debris in the wrong order they could create a debris shift with fatal results.. and there are four construction workers down there that deserve respect..
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Long article in tomorrow's NYT:
At just one such bridge:Bridges across the country carry similar deficiencies. At 309 major bridges on navigable waterways in the United States, inspections in recent years have found protection systems around bridge foundations that were deteriorating, potentially outdated or nonexistent, leaving the structures perilously exposed to ship strikes.
I wonder what advice the folks in Baltimore might offerThe Lewis and Clark Bridge has towered above the Columbia River for nearly a century, its rugged half-mile truss serving as a gateway for logging trucks and beach vacationers crossing between Washington and Oregon.
Decades ago, to protect against wayward vessels that could threaten the structure, crews installed timber shields around the bridge piers that rise up out of the water. But even as the cargo ships chugging up the Pacific Northwest’s largest river began to grow in size, the timbers rotted away, leaving the bridge vulnerable to disaster.
"If a ship hits one of those piers, it’s gone,” said Jerry Reagor, a semiretired contractor who lives near the bridge and has spent years pressing transportation officials to install new protections. The state views the risk of calamity as low and the cost of preventing it to be high.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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More wreckage removed today......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Was live on local news here.. warning horns were spoze to sound before the blast.. horns didn’t sound.. scared the news reporter when blast went off.. will look for vid..
On edit.. The website has edited it out.. sorry.. was a reporter “soiling his armor” with the bridge explosion in the background..
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The harbor is fully opened.
Commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore is expected to return to normal levels next month, officials said Wednesday, after the channel fully reopened this week for the first time since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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