Total bridge collapse in Baltimore...

[*Jay*]

Prayers for any of you with friends or family in the area. Apologies for the garbage text.

P.s.
Stay ready, dont get ready

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE - POSSIBLE MASS CASUALTY EVENT<br><br>A large container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing significant parts of it to collapse.<br><br>Emergency services are searching for multiple cars and people who may have fallen into… <a href="https://t.co/WujjcEOMc7">pic.twitter.com/WujjcEOMc7</a></p>&mdash; Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

One of my cg buddies is up there. He’s working that case. What a ****ing mess

 

[*Jay*]

When I started reading about it I did not expect a catastrophic and complete failure. Hoping that my emotions dont get changed from sorrow to anger.

 

[lOOKnGO]

 

[Double"O"]

How does one miss the channel or be that far off course in harbor?
Rudder failure, incompetence, total system failure, nobody at the helm, or on purpose?

Clear skies, calm waters...huge luminated bridge....

 

[*Jay*]

Those are all questions for the Harbor Pilot.

 

[96dreamer]

It's not often anymore I see a video online that takes my breath away. I had a sinking gut feeling when watching this. Hopefully traffic load was super light for the time of day.

 

[lOOKnGO]

Old enough to remember it opening. I was a kid. Parents drove us across it. Wasn't impressed, because I liked going through tunnels under water better. A real tragedy. Indicative of the times we're in, and government in charge.

 

[ford fanatic]

My office overlooks the Key Bridge, I cross it every day for my commute to work. It's chaos down here right now, helicopters and rescue boats everywhere...

The guy on shift last night that runs my job said he heard it, sounded like thunder.

 

[ford fanatic]

How does one miss the channel or be that far off course in harbor?
Rudder failure, incompetence, total system failure, nobody at the helm, or on purpose?

Clear skies, calm waters...huge luminated bridge....

Complete power loss on the ship is what they're saying.

 

[PhoenixM3]

How does one miss the channel or be that far off course in harbor?
Rudder failure, incompetence, total system failure, nobody at the helm, or on purpose?

Clear skies, calm waters...huge luminated bridge....

It was just the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez too. Hopefully not a terror attack….

 

[*Jay*]

News just said 9 cars and a semi., ~20 people.

 

[*Jay*]

Hopefully not a terror attack….

Since you mentioned it there is currently a "massive" (as per the headline) fire under a major bridge just south of Cleveland.
*edit
News just said its a brush fire of an unknown source.

 

[PhoenixM3]

Since you mentioned it there is currently a "massive" (as per the headline) fire under a major bridge just south of Cleveland.

Think of the chaos created by destroying the bridges in Manhattan…..

 

[ford fanatic]

.....

 

[ford fanatic]

Taken from outside my office...Hard to imagine, but the bridge would have filled this horizon.

 

[ford fanatic]

Not sure why there's 2 pics each time, but you can see where the bridge broke off.

 

[ford fanatic]

It was just the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez too. Hopefully not a terror attack….

Local news reporting that they're stopping tractor trailers that are going through the Fort McHenry and Harbor tunnels this morning for inspection. That's they're main alternate route.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

Buddy said loss of power on the ship it sounds like. They didn’t report it into sector possibly. But I mean a ****ing mayday call for constant bearing decreasing range imminent collision course with a major bridge should have been called on the radio immediately

Maybe not totally avoidable but they could have tried to get the bridge shutdown immediately

 

[72MachOne99GT]

Damn. Definitely hope people managed to escape that. I don’t know how quickly cars would sink when on a concrete roadway or what kind of suction that would create.