The Official NBA Season Thread: Back and Maybe Better Than Ever Before

[pmatic]

The few times I've had to drive south, I get queasy going down the Hampton Tunnel Bridge.

A bridge and tunnel under water. ****.

 

[RustyShackleford]

You would think it should be some stuff in place not to allow a whole ship to run smack Into a bridge, but also not really surprising seeing how things are run overall in this country

I read the ship lost power, the crew couldn't control it.

They started putting out mayday calls.

And they was only a few minutes until it made impact

Not enough time to get everyone off, but a few people were warned and prevented from driving into it

 

[finessence]

Mane im trying to tell you, folks can have these water bridges…if I can’t fly there I’ll just stay on my side I’m good

SF bridge, those Miami joints etc I want no parts

You need to look at the joints they have in Asia…. omg. Them joints be looking like church shoelaces floating in open water.

Scary as hell. And some even tunnel under the water then jut back out into the open water.

Those Miami causeways ain’t nothing compared to the 7 mile bridge in key west. That’s the only way to access key west by car

 

[frshstunna]

I read the ship lost power, the crew couldn't control it.

They started putting out mayday calls.

And they was only a few minutes until it made impact

Not enough time to get everyone off, but a few people were warned and prevented from driving into it

Sounds like a mishap you can’t really control…They’ll def put some barrier or suspend it higher when they rebuild tho

 

[WASHED KING]

The few times I've had to drive south, I get queasy going down the Hampton Tunnel Bridge.

A bridge and tunnel under water. ****.

Favorite part about going up to Hampton as a kid was crossing that bridge and going into the tunnel. Light work.

Now as an adult I hate driving on it.

 

[Cashflow]

 

[finessence]

I read the ship lost power, the crew couldn't control it.

They started putting out mayday calls.

And they was only a few minutes until it made impact

Not enough time to get everyone off, but a few people were warned and prevented from driving into it

Yup. Those joints don’t just stop like regular vehicles. Same as a train.

The engines and what not be turned off but they don’t stop on a dime.

 

[B Sox]

I always was uneasy about and tried to avoid bridges stretching over anything for a distance, this won’t help with my bridge scariness

You taking the Bay Bridge to the beach or going up and around?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

I'm listening to the news and they had a engineer on, that bridge was built in 1977 10-20 years before they put in certain guidelines for bridge building. So long story short bridges built after the 90's are built to withstand collisions.

 

[finessence]

No it wouldn't.

A cargo ship is massive

It is doing damage to any bridge

That ship probably weighed more than the actual bridge. That thing was stocked

They be LOADED

 

[WASHED KING]

You taking the Bay Bridge to the beach or going up and around?

Taking the bridge. It's not THAT bad. Just don't look to your left or right.

Lock in.

 

[getback]

The few times I've had to drive south, I get queasy going down the Hampton Tunnel Bridge.

A bridge and tunnel under water. ****.

I've been on the Chesapeake Bay one. I didn't realize there were two. Yikes. Virginia needs to relax.

 

[B Sox]

Taking the bridge. It's not THAT bad. Just don't look to your left or right.

Lock in.

It doesn’t bother me, but I know several people that are too scared and have been going up and around through Delaware for years. Adds like another hour or more to the trip

My wife gets a bit uneasy in the passenger seat though. Especially if I’m in the left lane and it has you go on the other side of the bridge against traffic

 

[getback]

 

[ballinsam23]

Any engineers here?

I dont think bridges are supposed to collapse like that on impact. That entire bridge came down. You would think only a section of it would.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

I’m assuming this is espn

Do y’all really be watching this

 

[Maximus Meridius]

That ship probably weighed more than the actual bridge. That thing was stocked

They be LOADED

Yeah that's a big *** ship

 

[finessence]

Chicago WILDIN’

 

[HNL HI]

it's threads like this that remind you that you're living in this world with dudes who couldn't comprehend how many apples johnny had left when he started with 5 but ate 3...

 

[finessence]

Any engineers here?

I dont think bridges are supposed to collapse like that on impact. That entire bridge came down. You would think only a section of it would.

It didn’t get hit by an ordinary ship. That container ship probably weighs over 120,000+ tons including cargo

 

[pmatic]

 

[lovehateself]

Corporations currently gearing up "supply chain issues" lies to jack up prices.

this will be true if something happens to the Port of LA

as for the ship, these container ships run on duel motors and and have auxilary power. they shouldve been able to divert the direction of it.
port captain got some more explaining to do


EYE am not an engineer
but i know some things

pic of an lng fueling operation

 

[Coupé It]

No it wouldn't

Bro. Listen to me.

We just got a new bridge up here. One of the requirements was that it had to withstand a fully loaded container ship collision.

A container ship can hit a few columns and it still wouldn’t matter. There are like 60 dual columns on it.

The new Tappan Zee Bridge btw.

 

[frshstunna]

You taking the Bay Bridge to the beach or going up and around?

Option #3 I’m not going out there, flying out of BWI to Miami or SD, and driving down to VA for the beach

Ain’t been to the eastern shore since senior week, no bay bridge for me

 

[aepps20]

I’ve said this many times in the Political Thread, but the infrastructure in this country is absolutely terrible and is a huge national security risk. The bad guys know that if we spent on infrastructure we would create jobs and we would be safer but they refuse to get on board. Just look at any random bridge or overpass in your cities and towns and it doesn’t take a structural engineer to know that we are playing with fire. Not to mention our power grid is very dated and overloaded as well.