Baltimore bridge collapse
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I'm wondering if the bridge will look like a giant rainbow, or if they change direction and make it a tunnel instead. Don't forget also that it can't cause racist divides separating a community.
This is gonna be interesting to watch. "Virtue bridge" that will get past regulations in about..... 24 years.
If I win the mega millions, I'll never be heard from again. I'll die in a pile of hookers & blow.
@UncleMark needs to ban you again just because you won't stop trashing every thread with God damn soccer talk.
And lacrosse. National champs a few years ago.
The 9 nation champion hockey banners is pretty impressive.
F*ucking hell those chick are HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are they with the guys in cargo shorts and NB shoes? Come on?!!!
Yup.
How's that even possible?
Mega Millions
what's crazy is basketball is up to about 350 d1 programsYeah. About the size of the Big 10.
Arizona state has a team. Go figure.
Yeah I read it's just a departure port for Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruises to the Caribbean... ain't nobody going there as a port stop. Guess there are a couple cruises out right now somewhere in Caribbean and they aren't sure how they are getting people home now. I guess maybe dropping them in Norfolk and bussing them back to Baltimore
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Well might as well replace this bridge with something more accommodating to bigger ships anyway even if it doesn't help matters much right away.
The other bridge may need addressed at another time.
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Or maybe he is making sure to go so people don't overreact like they did before.
But he's wrong if he does, wrong if he doesn't.
After I posted, a guy on TV said he thought the last-minute smoke was the result of the captain flooring the engine in full reverse (or whatever it's called) to try to slow down the ship when he saw it was going to hit. Does that make sense?
It sounds too simple. It reminds me too much of smoke coming out the tailpipe of a diesel city bus accelerating after a traffic signal.
Even the flight to BWI to catch the boat sounds like a depressing way to start your vacation.
Can Maersk stand the hit? Damage will be in the billions and won't even be determinable for a year or so.
I predict special legislation to limit the litigation, like the asbestos cases.
Wouldn't a better solution be to make the largest ships go to a port that does not require going under a bridge?
Curious about this ship's route. Do we assume it went from Asia to Baltimore via the tip of Africa?
I've heard it costs like $5-10 million to take a ship through the Panana Canal (assuming it can even fit).
No I forget where the route but that wasn’t it. But yes that shipping is wild. They’ll divert now a bunch to west coast ports which seems illogical
Shipping by cargo ship products is night and day cheaper than air still
That's because none of the three five-stars are guards.
Last year, we had one (only one) five-star guard and beat "that school up north" twice, Schifino was a big part of those victories.
There were the "Davis Years" when we were the runnerup national champions.
Then there were the "Davis/Bracey Years" featuring a "70-play NBA-style playbook."
You can guess which I liked better.
It was going through the canal. Panama canal was enlarged in recent years and this ship was sized to fit. But the canal is currently having drought problems so it's reduced the quantity of ships that can go through. Not enough water in the retention lakes to operate the locks.
Hell, to have a guard tandem like Wright and Strickland seems like the good old days compared to now...
I assume they are pulling from the east coast population that can easily drive there. Same as the NYC cruise port.
I would imagine if you're gonna fly to a cruise port you would just go to FL.
When I was teaching high school completion classes on Army posts in Germany, we had a weekemd seminar near Garmisch in the Alps. A couple of my fellow teachers and I were going to take a cable car to the top of the mountain and visit the restaurant. My two friends were reluctant to make the trip but I talked them into it...
My plan was to wait until the 3 of us (the rest of the car was empty) were on our way, and then scare them by telling them about when my cousin was an exchange student in Grenoble France and had a horrifying experience. She was on a ski lift and some sort of malfunction occurred and people on another chair fell to their deaths. I thought it would be fun to scare them, at least that was my plan...
But as soon as the car started to move I was suddenly unable to move. All three of us were trying to hold on for dear life, and any thought I had of recounting that story to try and scare them was DOA. What made it worse was that the car made two or three stops and old Germans who clearly lived on the mountain and rode the tram each day got on. I knew enough German to comprehend that they thought it was hilarious that the 2 Black girls and the white guy were scared of going up the mountain.
When we finally got to the top any plans to eat or enjoy the view had dissipated. But instead of having the car to ourselves on the way down,it was SRO. There were straps hanging from the roof to hold on to, and it was like being in a crowded subway car. But instead of being on level tracks (and feeling relatively safe) we were in an overcrowded cable car which was hurtling towards Earth at what seemed to me a rapid rate of descent.
We survived.And I had one more stab at overcoming vertigo when I got back to the US and visited San Francisco. I was staying at a hostel in the shadow of the GG bridge, and from there it looked scenic and not at all threatening.So along with a few other travellers, I decided to go up to the bridge and join all the people walking across. I was finally going to put my Garmisch demons to rest. At least that was the plan...
When we got to the bridge, the first thing I noticed was that it was very windy and the bridge swayed. Still nervous, but undaunted I made my way to the walkway and started to walk across. I was OK till we were completely over water, and suddenly I found myself frozen unable to move. I literally wasn't able to move forward, and the swaying didn't help.
People continued to nonchalantly pass by me, and I was afraid I might have to stay there forever.Finally I got down on my hands and knees and literally crawled back to the SF side. It was beyond embarrassing, but with the other walkers and people in cars jeering, all I cared about was getting my ass off that damn bridge and back on to solid ground.
I think my last trip to the balcony occurred during the 74-75 season vs pUKe, and the infamous RMK patting Joe B Hall on the head incident. Our seats for the game were in the balcony (despite camping out for tickets for 3 weeks) because the marquee game was ND with John Shumate, so that was the ticket package our best seats were for.
Your group had to line up at one of the 3 ticket windows based on which package you wanted to get first, and then from there after purchasing those seats you moved on to the lines for your second and third choices for ticket passage. The idea was you'd get court level for your first choice,then main level for your second and then balcony for your third, but it didn't always work out as planned.
Anyway one of my poly sci seminars had met at Nicks that afternoon, as it was the last class heading into either Thanksgiving or Christmas break. Of course meeting at Nicks in an informal setting we had drank beer for a couple of hours. But then the professor decided to buy shots, and after a couple of rounds I was wasted. I'm not sure how I walked home,or over to AH, but I'll never forget the terror I experienced watching that game in the balcony and being so out of it that I was afraid I'd go careening down the seats and over the rails.
I probably did watch a few more games up there for that season, but I never repeated the mistake of being drunk. The next year they did away with the lottery system and we never got stuck up their again. Haven't been to a game for a couple of years, but these days I can barely make it up to the main level without being exhausted, so a trip to the balcony would be impossible.
Consortium of major P&I insurers. Likely with huge overlay/reinsurance coverage via Lloyds of London. They'll pay out upfront, subrogate and then sue each other for years
Try to dig into root cause of the ship failure. What was the component that failed and can they go after that manufacturer, etc...
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Wow. If it had malfunctioned and ruined a lock or other structure, the damage to the canal and its shipping could be far worse than the damage from hitting the bridge.
And unfortunately, the women's team plays S. Carolina next game.
It was a good year, though. 17-0 in Assembly Hall!
But why is he insisting that the federal government will pay for everything? It's almost like they're terrified of an insurance investigation.
You know Davis was 1-31 this year, right (I may have the number of losses wrong, but he only won 1 game).
What about Dakich? He belongs on that entertainment team! Maybe Pat Knight?
