Monkeys Fist 42356 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 5 hours ago, ohhh_yeah said: 4 hours ago, ewerk said: Shit, I thought the bridge collapsed some time after being hit and had been closed but clearly not. Fucking hell! Those kinds of bridges are designed to be under tension, they’ll be able to withstand a small fault in certain struts, but if the main support is taken out, as it is here, that’s it. As well as the loss of lives, and what a horrific way to go, this will cost billions, as it’s going to be blocking the port by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30535 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: this will cost billions, as it’s going to be blocking the port by the looks of it. Frank Sobotka is not going to be happy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35056 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 1 hour ago, ewerk said: Frank Sobotka is not going to be happy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20110 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Good old Jess. Fuck me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20110 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Joking aside. About 15 years ago I did some work on that and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44789 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Chesapeake on RED ALERT. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7025 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) That's a massive ship to squeeze under the bridge btw. I'm surprised a collision with one support can bring the entire structure down and that's it's taken so long for it to happen Edit - Turns out some other bridges have safeguards against this happening Edited March 27 by Kid Dynamite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ewerk 30535 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 I always knew that lad was a liability. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35056 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 11 hours ago, Kid Dynamite said: That's a massive ship to squeeze under the bridge btw. I'm surprised a collision with one support can bring the entire structure down and that's it's taken so long for it to happen Edit - Turns out some other bridges have safeguards against this happening Yeah, I thought it was odd that it didn’t have those (which was mentioned when the accident was first reported). Even the Gateshead Millennium Bridge has them. Them was some minor controversy about if spoiling the aesthetics at the time, as some people deemed it overkill. When you consider it was deemed necessary there, you’d think it would be in place for a bridge carrying traffic over such a busy waterway / port of that size. Probably missed out the original design and thought too expensive to put right in the age of massive container ships. Fucking mental in retrospect 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Monkeys Fist 42356 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 I can’t remember where I saw it, but I definitely recall reading an article about the treacherous state of bridges in the US. It essentially said “ soon, one or more of them will collapse”. It may been around the time that bridge in Italy had a lie down. I used to do a lot of contract work for a firm whose business was the installation, and subsequent monitoring, of movement meters on road and rail bridges and other structures. One job we had in Dewsbury, they brought over a team of rope lads from a partner business they had in the US, to work with us and see how things were done here. It was a small, single span rail bridge over a canal These lads were amazed that something so small and insignificant was 1- Metered in the first place 2- Those meters were maintained. Said that would rarely happen back home. It was a railway bridge, with regular passenger trains going over it ffs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawb 4247 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 3 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: I can’t remember where I saw it, but I definitely recall reading an article about the treacherous state of bridges in the US. It essentially said “ soon, one or more of them will collapse”. It may been around the time that bridge in Italy had a lie down. I used to do a lot of contract work for a firm whose business was the installation, and subsequent monitoring, of movement meters on road and rail bridges and other structures. One job we had in Dewsbury, they brought over a team of rope lads from a partner business they had in the US, to work with us and see how things were done here. It was a small, single span rail bridge over a canal These lads were amazed that something so small and insignificant was 1- Metered in the first place 2- Those meters were maintained. Said that would rarely happen back home. It was a railway bridge, with regular passenger trains going over it ffs It goes further than large structures like bridges mate. If any of your family live in social housing, get shit boiler checked. The landlord should do it but fuck me what I saw in london would make a hooker blush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2964 Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30535 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Fucking hell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11257 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44789 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 This is wild. American police are mental. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35056 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Imagine what they’re like when the press aren’t there 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 9694 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 2 minutes ago, Alex said: Imagine what they’re like when the press aren’t there Or imagine if she was black. They are scum the coppers over there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9377 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I follow a parent of one of the Uvalde kids on twitter, there were similar scenes at a Uni in Texas, he posted "how come the police weren't so keen when schoolkids were being murdered". 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11257 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Lovely person. Seems ideal Trump VP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7025 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42356 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 7 hours ago, RobinRobin said: Lovely person. Seems ideal Trump VP. Someone should take her to her a gravel pit and shoot her, she seems nasty and untrainable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10838 Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 21 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: Someone should take her to her a gravel pit and shoot her, she seems nasty and untrainable. A mystery unravelin' 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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