Good morning!!!!

[newbury]

I saw a video where the lights on the ship went out on two occasions when near the bridge then as it crosssed under the bridge the bridge collapsed. Looked very suspicious to me. I'm sure some interesting stotry will come out.

It didn't go under the bridge before it hit the supports.
link

 

[two_bit_score]

I watched a video earlier this morning that had commentary about the accident and watched the video I can't find that video now. It was a simple and somewhat factual account of what he could see happening on the video. The ship losing power, then regaining power then the coal plume coming up out of the stack as she is reversed at apparently full power, he also had some tracking video showing the boat reducing speed in the few seconds prior to impact and that the port anchor had been released. The tracking video was some public view of shipping almost like the aircraft tracking software available. Then the moment of impact with the piling on the edge of the channel.

Yep, this will be a sad thing to watch unfold over time as info comes in.

I got over $350 back from the CC rebate, and $117 from the membership rebate. So spent $120 and got $467 in rebates.

You are definately making the membership work for you. We have more CC's than we need. That's why I didn't get the Costco CC, but sounds like it's woth it.

Also reminded me how fragile our infrastructure is.

Absolutely. We have a lot of exposure. As underwriters might say.

 

[two_bit_score]

It didn't go under the bridge before it hit the supports.
link

That video shows more than the one I saw first this morning. In the earlier one it looked like the ship sideswiped the support and crossed under the bridge which fell onto the ship. This shows a completely different view of what happend. This shows a direct hit. Thanks!

 

[LouNY]

This is one of the videos I saw much earlier today, he has a couple of them for the incident.
Seems to be calm and fairly factual.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I wonder how close one can get to look? I bet not very close unless you have a Boat

 

[two_bit_score]

Really great video Lou! Thanks!

 

[m7040]

D8 sent us videos of the ship accident taken during the rescue attempts right after the accident. One of her friends were part of the rescue team.It showed significant damage to the bow of the ship on one side and containers in the water. Damage seems to be all above the waterline. A span of the bridge was resting on the bow of the ship

 

[daugen]

D8 sent us videos of the ship accident taken during the rescue attempts right after the accident. One of her friends were part of the rescue team.It showed significant damage to the bow of the ship on one side and containers in the water. Damage seems to be all above the waterline. A span of the bridge was resting on the bow of the ship

yeah, they weren't backing out of that one

I know that structural strength comes from many things but I would feel better, sort of, if only one span of that bridge fell down.
there may not be an inadequacy here but it sure didn't show sectional integrity.
Particularly for a bridge that has super heavies go under it and a big public highway.
might be different if it was just a train bridge

 

[Buppies]

The train bridge would have been designed stronger due to higher loads concentrated 140000 pounds per car capacity

Very sad about the bridge and the loss of life prayers sent

Good Evening

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 9.6C and it's presently 15.3C, partly cloudy and calm.

I heard/watched one of the first reports of the bridge collapse as 0130 there is 1630 here. Tragic. Reports are that the ship managed to get a "MAYDAY" call out that resulted in many lives being saved.

Anyway, today is 'into town' day for mail & groceries. But first will be a coffee get-together with the local Vets. Later on the house grounds could do with a mowing.

That's about it, take care all.