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Jan. 27, 2012 3:01 p.m. bludroptop SuperDork
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:06 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
I was on a tanker once that almost took out the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:11 p.m. failboat HalfDork
lol whats the story behind this
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:13 p.m. pigeon SuperDork
failboat wrote:
lol whats the story behind this
I think with your username you'd know
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:14 p.m. failboat HalfDork
full speed ahead!
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:15 p.m. Duke SuperDork
I used to live where I crossed over the C&D Canal a lot, which is narrow but carries a lot of large shipping traffic between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. One day I was driving across the bridge watching half a dozen guys way up in the rigging of a big ship, busting ass to get some kind of radio aerial dismounted before the bottom side of the bridge did it for them.
I was also living in St. Louis when a big raft of petroleum barges hit the stone pier of the Eads Bridge and broke up. The bridge took it like a champ, but it sure was interesting that night watching 6 or 8 burning tanker barges drifting downstream while every river tug in the vicinity tried like hell to corral them and put them out.
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Jan. 27, 2012 3:38 p.m. DoctorBlade Dork
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/27/kentucky-bridge-collapses-after-being-struck-...
Good news? The replacement was in the pre-construction stage, so the wait won't be that long. We hope.
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Jan. 27, 2012 4:14 p.m. petegossett SuperDork
Eh, the boat is still between the spans, just prop some boards or something over the top of it...
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Jan. 27, 2012 4:17 p.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork
DoctorBlade wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/27/kentucky-bridge-collapses-after-being-struck-...
Good news? The replacement was in the pre-construction stage, so the wait won't be that long. We hope.
Oh boy... this isn't ANOTHER bridge that goes between KY and IN that's berkeleyed up now, is it?
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Jan. 27, 2012 4:23 p.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
Remember: Red, Right, Returning.
The article says that MOST of the navigation lights were working???
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Jan. 27, 2012 4:55 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
Even stranger is the ship has made that trip quite a few times with no problems. Wonder who screwed up?
An old friend of mine was a navigator on a destroyer which ran aground down in Florida. He had been off his shift for about two hours and was in his bunk when it happened.
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Jan. 27, 2012 5:08 p.m. DeadSkunk Dork
I've been on that bridge before. I'll be more aware next time, I guess.
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Jan. 27, 2012 8:34 p.m. RealMiniDriver SuperDork
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Jan. 27, 2012 8:57 p.m. alex SuperDork
^
That's the nautical equivalent of layin' down yer hog to slide under a semi and popping up on the other side with nary a scratch, รก la Smokey & The Bandit.
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Jan. 27, 2012 10:33 p.m. Gearheadotaku SuperDork
that's gonna be some paperwork...
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Jan. 27, 2012 10:35 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork
Sometimes you get the bridge, other times the bridge gets you:
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Jan. 28, 2012 2:06 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork
Pfttt...that'll buff out.
