Baltimore question

Is Baltimore a dangerous and filthy place?

  • Yes

    Votes: 108 96.4%

  • No

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • Total voters
    112
#851
#851
hog88 said:
If it was avoidable it wasn't an accident. The only accidents (as I said earlier completely out of human control) are akin to "acts of G^d".

A steer tire only blows due to a defect, impact with something or lack of maintenance so a steer tire blowing is no accident.
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The steer tire blowing because a bolt was run over is unavoidable. Please explain how this could be avoided. God could have put the bolt in the road I guess.
 
#852
#852
UT_Dutchman said:
The steer tire blowing because a bolt was run over is unavoidable. Please explain how this could be avoided. God could have put the bolt in the road I guess.
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Driver paying better attention, they were probably driving too fast ext.

I'll admit that I'm a stickler on safety and accident prevention. I feel that it's one of the reasons we have such a good SAFER score.
 
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#855
#855
Apparently 2 minutes of the black box recording is missing right before the accident.
 
#857
#857
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tells Fox News Digital that it is "too early" to provide an estimate on when the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge will be removed from the Patapsco River to allow marine traffic to flow freely into the Port of Baltimore again.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the military branch has been tasked, along with the Coast Guard, to clean up the area as part of a rebuilding process that he warned Wednesday will "not be quick or easy or cheap."

"It is too early to provide timeline estimates on channel clearance and reopening," a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Our priority remains providing support to the U.S. Coast Guard and our state and local partners’ recovery efforts at this time."

The Army Corps of Engineers says its Baltimore District has activated its emergency operations center, which clears the way for "more than 1,100 engineering, construction, contracting and operations specialists to provide support to local, state and federal agencies" responding to Tuesday’s bridge collapse.

The branch says it will provide underwater assessment capabilities, structural engineering support – including "certified bridge safety inspectors and urban search and rescue structural technical specialists" – and removal of debris in the waterway that could pose threats to navigation.
 
#858
#858
The administration of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday requested $60 million in emergency federal funding to fast-track recovery efforts in the Baltimore bridge collapse.

The Democratic governor said the funding was needed to "lay the foundation for a rapid recovery."

President Biden has signaled the federal government would pay the full cost of rebuilding the bridge, but those comments were undermined by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said Wednesday that the recovery would be paid for by insurance payouts.

Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld said the state’s budget for emergencies is “limited and unable to fund an emergency of this magnitude.”

A “quick release” of emergency funds, Wiedefeld said, would allow the state “to proceed expeditiously with debris removal, demolition, traffic operations restoration, and emergency construction to this vital link on the National Highway System in Baltimore, Maryland.”

Gov. Moore has promised that "the best minds in the world" were working on plans to clear the debris, move the cargo ship that rammed into the bridge from the channel, recover the bodies of the four remaining workers presumed dead, and investigate what went wrong.

"Government is working hand in hand with industry to investigate the area, including the wreck, and remove the ship," Moore said.
 
#859
#859
UT_VOLS13 said:
The administration of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday requested $60 million in emergency federal funding to fast-track recovery efforts in the Baltimore bridge collapse.

The Democratic governor said the funding was needed to "lay the foundation for a rapid recovery."

President Biden has signaled the federal government would pay the full cost of rebuilding the bridge, but those comments were undermined by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said Wednesday that the recovery would be paid for by insurance payouts.

Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld said the state’s budget for emergencies is “limited and unable to fund an emergency of this magnitude.”

A “quick release” of emergency funds, Wiedefeld said, would allow the state “to proceed expeditiously with debris removal, demolition, traffic operations restoration, and emergency construction to this vital link on the National Highway System in Baltimore, Maryland.”

Gov. Moore has promised that "the best minds in the world" were working on plans to clear the debris, move the cargo ship that rammed into the bridge from the channel, recover the bodies of the four remaining workers presumed dead, and investigate what went wrong.

"Government is working hand in hand with industry to investigate the area, including the wreck, and remove the ship," Moore said.
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They should name the bridge in honor of the workers who lost their lives.
 
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#862
hog88 said:
I have never heard of the Foreign Dredge act before, that along with the Jones act needs to be repealed yesterday.
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one of the craziest things from the article

The Army Corp of Engineers is still using dredges built in the 1930s, for example, while a recent study from Tulane University found that "the combined capacity of the U.S. [hopper dredge] fleet is less than a single EU [European Union] dredging vessel."
 
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#864
finance.yahoo.com

Insurers could face losses of up to $4 billion after Baltimore bridge tragedy-analyst

LONDON (Reuters) -Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse could cost insurers billions of dollars in claims, analysts say, with one putting it at as much as $4 billion, which would make the tragedy a record shipping insurance loss. With little clarity on when the Port of Baltimore would...
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looks like it would deplete the insurance funds. probably will lead to higher shipping costs. Biden can blame inflation on the shippers now.
 
#867
#867
volinbham said:
one of the craziest things from the article

The Army Corp of Engineers is still using dredges built in the 1930s, for example, while a recent study from Tulane University found that "the combined capacity of the U.S. [hopper dredge] fleet is less than a single EU [European Union] dredging vessel."
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It's no surprise with ACE, I've seen them dredge out on OHL. Don't know if it was their dredge or a contractor but it looked ancient.
 
#870
#870
34T in debt and it has been squandered..For that amount of money our infrastructure should be good, a few new dredges, a few heavy ice breakers. Instead we got nothing..what a joke of a gov.
 
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