Sunday, April 14, 2024

Won't see this on all news channels. Here we go again!

CNN ran a story this morning headlined, “26 barges break loose and float down Ohio River, causing damage and prompting bridge closures in Pittsburgh, officials say.”   - Cathy Korzik 
"While it’s not new — barges broke loose in 2012 and 2019, that I could find — the scale of this event is at least twice as large as the next largest example. 
Some of yesterday’s 26 loosed barges have sunk, closing the river to commercial transit...
  • Maybe this time the cause of this nascent disaster will not forever remain a baffling mystery, as have the other recent infrastructure att…accidents. 
  • Maybe this one will be more like what always used to happen. 
  • Maybe some chagrined dock master will explain how the chains gave way that should’ve been replaced 20 years ago, and we’ll get pictures of the severed chains and nothing will sketchy.

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