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This is gonna be ugly I'm sure, hope casualty's are kept to a minimum.

At least it was middle of the night. Barge hit an I-40 bridge over the Arkansas River near here around 8AM that caused it to collapse and kill most of the people on it several years ago.

Just seen the video on the news.
They are saying maybe up to 20 people missing,drivers as well as some construction workers.
Looks likes a long bridge ,major impact on travel.

Will this close the port for long period?

It might, this is a really big deal. I don't know about Annapolis or whatever Navy presence in the area might be effected. Locking the Navy into their port could really upset the defense of the east coast, too. This is a big deal.

Wow, hoping for the best for the workers on the bridge. You can see maintance vehicle with their flashing lights on stopped on that bridge, and all of them went into the water.

As far as traffic, that's a major bridge that carries Interstate 695. Traffic is going to be super-fugged for a long time to come.



As far as blocking in the Navy, that's not an issue. There may be some USNS ships in that harbor for repair or for taking on fuel. But the bulk of the Navy is in Norfolk, Va and some other bases on the east coast.

Terrorists

Curious, as a structural engineer ( but not bridges).

Do US major bridges have protective impact defences like

r.c. enlarged landing bases around bridge support piers,

lit up like Christmas trees and

buoys/ channel markers etc.?

Damn.

Wow…what a nightmare for the folks on the bridge. God be with the rescue workers and the victims.

I’m sure the dong-huffing sec of transportation will attempt to wheel out racism, climate, and Trump later today as the causes for the incident.

Drunk ship captain more like it.

Or Rot.

Frank Sobotka gonna get laid off.

Major impacts I'd think to the port of Baltimore from a freight perspective.

Not good

That ship was under the control of a US pilot.

Bridges are a huge piece of our high value national infrastructure. Port cities can be crippled if they are taken out.

I’m voting DEI hire.

Ship was leaving port, only 30 minutes or so into extended voyage. News stated there is video of the ship's lights going completely dark prior to impact. If that's true, major power failure, unable to steer ship.

Post of the thread so far.

God have mercy on the victims and rescuers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Carroll

Built by Robert E Lee PE... before he resigned his Union Commission.

watching a video, the ship lost power twice while trying to go under the bridge.

nightmare scenario