My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.
My hot take is this shouldn’t be possible to occur as an accident during normal operations. Either the bridge is dilapidated or poorly designed, or ships that large should not be allowed under it.
Shit like this will occur with increasing frequency in America, and it will be normalized as an unavoidable, just like mass shootings.
looks like we've got the Big Communism Builder Himself right here. bask in His glory, He will awash the masses in communism and they will give thanks to Him
Apart from treat discourse being a weird response to this, waterways are the most efficient way to move treats massive distances, so this doesn't even make sense.
The bridge was opened in 1977. I believe loaded cargo ships have gotten much more massive since then. Does that mean the bridge could withstand getting hit by a standard 70s cargo ship? I don’t know. That doesn’t invalidate the point that a cargo ship that size should be crossing it - but these massive container ships are what drive global capitalism. No surprise that they would disregard safety for profit here.