Cypress Sun

Along the same tubes...

How is Ms. Worthless today? She almost looks like she's smiling in the picture, I know that dogs don't smile. Tails don't lie though.

Say nighty night now honey.

I don't know if they were designed that way or not, I'm not a civil engineer. One thing for sure, they couldn't have hurt.

The ship stopped upon striking the bridge. Perhaps if the bridge would have been protected by structures and cushion provided as the picture below shows, this may have been prevented.

In Joe's video, the ship is clearly underway with power 43 seconds before impact. Dolphins (barriers protecting the bridge supports) would have probably prevented this accident. Tug boat assistance through the bridge would probably would have prevented the accident. Look at the Sunshine Skyway to see what I mean about the dolphins.

There is no way that the road repair crew could have had time to drop what they were doing, get in their vehicles, start them up and clear the bridge...not even if they were the one's to have received the MAYDAY. In the video, posted by Joe, from the time that the lights go out on the time it hits the bridge is 43 seconds (mol). I really don't believe that they were able to stop traffic that fast and probably only stopped traffic immediately after the collapse. Although tragic, a bunch of luck happened during this event. - The fact that it was 1:30 am meant that traffic was virtually non-existent, would have been a different story at 8:00 am with the bridge full of work commuters. - Two vehicles missed the collapse by a mere 10 seconds. They will forever be glad that they didn't catch that stop light, or whatever...but will always wonder what would have happened if they did. - The area where the workers were collapsed in a kind of slow motion. I believe that this is what allowed the two survivors to live. The impact of the 185' fall was "cushioned" by the domino effect of the collapse. - Law enforcement was apparently nearby and closed the bridge off before anyone else drove off the land portion of the bridge into the water or embankment. I believe that there will be some new bridge protection requirements proposed in the very near future. Dolphin type protection of the main piers on either side of the shipping channel will probably become a required retrofit. They might even require large ships to have tug assistance through areas with bridges that must be traveled under to get to port. None of it will be cheap and ultimately the taxpayer and/or the consumer will be the one paying for it.

That was the first thing I saw this morning at 3:30 am. It brought back memories the Sunshine Skyway disaster in 1980 which happened in same manner. The Skyway disaster happened in a blinding thunderstorm that came up phenomenally fast and the harbor pilot got out of the channel too far. This was long before todays sophisticated positioning devices. This appears to have happened in clear weather with unrestricted visibility, seems very odd. When the Skyway was rebuilt, they installed large barriers, called dolphins, in front of the main piers. I don't know why, but I thought that most major bridges near large, international ports would have had these dolphins installed as a protection measure after the Skyway disaster...apparently not. I understand that there was a repair crew doing concrete duct repair and other vehicles on the bridge at the time of collapse. I hope they are found safely but the water is 50 degrees and the accident happened at 1:30 am.

Supposedly in stock https://safarifirearms.com.au/lyman-cyclone-tumbler-drum-rubber-gasket-sku-ly-7631451/

Thank You!

Little late but Baby it's You

Jays at the Rays 4:10. I'll be watching. My prediction for the Rays season is. Rays 86 - 76 4th in the AL East/miss the playoffs 1 - (Damn) Yankees 2 - Orioles 3 - Jays 4 - Rays 5 - Red Sox

Yep, thanks!

NET!

Dead Flowers

Never mind

Dummy...everyone knows you should use a rope in these situations, not a chain.

(You Are) Like a Hurricane

Cowboy

I thought everything in Australia was wild.

You should be reported to the Moderators for an obscene post.

Fly Like an Eagle