That’s consistent with what I heard and the video shown on tv. They showed the vehicles with their lights flashing on the bridge of
The workers working to fill Potholes. Will await further updates.
Here’s a good description of the moments leading up to the tragedy.
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I saw it on CNN.
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Seems the glass breaker may not be the best first plan. This should be a gift article. https://wapo.st/3xc7ZDp
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I’ve thought about this, in relation to the bridge in Baltimore, since this conversation started yesterday.
Your car just fell up to 185 feet into 40 degree water, at night, along with all of the steel and pavement from the structure. It’s highly unlikely your vehicle is oriented in an upright position. If luck is on your side you’re just in shock. More likely, you’re concussed, or unconscious, probably pinned, but certainly injured, and already under water. Even in the best case scenario you can’t see more than a foot in front of you, you’re freezing, and struggling to determine which way is up. Surviving this is a true miracle. I’m glad two people hit the life lottery and made it out.
In a “normal” situation where your vehicle rolls into the water, or is swept away, your best bet is to use your glass breaker on the rear window. It’s the one most likely to be tempered glass.
If you drive a luxury European vehicle you will likely drown because your back window is also laminated.
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If you can open the windows quickly (before the power windows fail), that may be the best route, since glass breakers are not always effective (even on non laminated glass). If your car has manual windows, there is slightly less immediacy needed to open them.
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Agreed, my comment assumes that the windows won’t work.
In general, when using a glass breaker, it’s advisable to strike at the lower corners of the window glass. Those spots are less likely to flex than the middle of the glass. That flex can reduce the effectiveness of the glass breaker.
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I think it’s important to note that the construction workers on the bridge that lost their lives were immigrants from Latin America, doing the type of job Americans would rather not.
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Oh good grief, I just saw a post on Twitter blaming the entire thing on the ship captain passing out from having had a Covid vaccine. These weirdos now blame every physical condition and death on the vaccine.
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It certainly puts having a bad day at work in perspective. Imagine being the ship captain seeing this happen in slow motion and being completely powerless to do anything because your ship has no power.
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At least he has some solace knowing that he saved some lives by putting out the Mayday so teh bridge tenders could stop any more traffic
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Just saw on local news that crews are moving on to salvage operations because recovery operations are too dangerous at this point.
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From the Washington Post. This may be behind a paywall, but the headline is the information I wanted to post.
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This isn’t the fault of the infrastructue which this wording makes it sound like.
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They were fixing potholes.
I’m talking about the newspaper making it sound like there was something wrong with the infrastructure of the bridge leading to its collapse rather than the cause being a huge container ship hitting it at a good speed.
They called it a large infrastructure disaster.
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The Dali (ship which hit the Key bridge) crashed into Antwerp dock 8 years ago.
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Worth the watch. Watch to end–shows the cargo ships now trapped in the port and all the ones waitiing to get in.
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Yep, I posted that up thread. It’s a great explanation of the lead up to the tragedy.
I’m sure the ships are going to pile up more before things open up.