a boat took out a bridge overnight

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

RIP Key bridge. Last report I saw was 7 vehicles in the water and 20 people missing. This all just happened a few hours ago.



This is going to absolutely fuck people up here for probably the next decade.

[Ryeknow]

Holy shit. Hopefully all missing were not fatalities but I'm assuming that's not very likely

[Ryeknow]

So far only 2 people rescued

[jawn galliano]

jesus christ

[Mesarthim]

Holy shit - that is worse than the skyway and i35 collapses - not just a section but the entire damn bridge went down!

[zim]

fuuuuuuck

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Holy shit - that is worse than the skyway and i35 collapses - not just a section but the entire damn bridge went down!

Shit is fucking wild. I've gone over that bridge thousands and thousands of times. It's so strange that it's just gone.

This isn't just going to have a huge impact on Maryland. Sure we are going to get absolutely fucked by it but so will other states. There's roughly 100k jobs wrapped up in the ports, people are gonna end up being laid off cause of this shit. Baltimore is also a huge port when it comes to getting things into the country. This also directly impacts a USCG shipyard just a few miles away from the bridge.

[shadowalk]

That is fucked up.

[slugbait]

Someone is getting sued

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he wants the federal government to bare the full cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge after it collapsed in Baltimore Tuesday morning.

"It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge," Biden said from the White House. "I expect the Congress to support my effort -- this is going to take some time."

This is gonna get real interesting.

[Mesarthim]

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he wants the federal government to bare the full cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge after it collapsed in Baltimore Tuesday morning.

"It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge," Biden said from the White House. "I expect the Congress to support my effort -- this is going to take some time."

This is gonna get real interesting.

this doesn't surprise me at all. I'm not all that familiar with the area but after looking it up on google maps earlier and saw it's location....yikes. the entire Baltimore harbor/port is blocked so it's of vital strategic and economic importance that it gets cleared and rebuilt ASAP.

[Ryeknow]

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he wants the federal government to bare the full cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge after it collapsed in Baltimore Tuesday morning.

"It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge," Biden said from the White House. "I expect the Congress to support my effort -- this is going to take some time."

This is gonna get real interesting.

this doesn't surprise me at all. I'm not all that familiar with the area but after looking it up on google maps earlier and saw it's location....yikes. the entire Baltimore harbor/port is blocked so it's of vital strategic and economic importance that it gets cleared and rebuilt ASAP.

I can't even begin to imagine the impact of what the ports being closed would look like on a state level let alone a national one.

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Search and rescue is officially called off. 6 presumed dead . Waters probably in the low to mid 40s, no way anyone was gonna be able to survive in that for any extended period of time.

Just a couple of hours later and this would have been so much worse. Saw estimates that 35000-40000 travel across that bridge daily.

[Grudge]

I think the may day message that was sent gave authorities a heads-up to close down traffic to the bridge before too many people got there or something.

[User]

all indian crew on the boat, and seems the six who died were road repair guys, mexican and guatemalan-- so no US citizens involved, let alone casualties? it had a pilot, maybe that hard-on bearer has to be US

[Mesarthim]

In the raw footage that Ryan posted I think you can make out the lights of the work crew vehicles parked on the bridge. Shit happened so fast they didn’t stand a god damn chance….

[Noyka]

I don’t know if its because I am on the west coast but this has barely been covered here. Its horrible and a blessing more weren’t killed.

[Mesarthim]

I saw it here first and then on reddit. Don’t ever watch the news so I don’t know how it’s been covered.

[Noyka]

I heard it first whenn my dad was watching the Five 5 pm est its a fox commentary show aka everyone talks over each other

I watch local for traffic/local election stuff and did not see it in the morning but did see it in the pm broadcast

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

The wire key bridge memes have been fucking incredible.