Yea that's crazy!
I hope it was an accident and the ship wasn't hacked and steered into the bridge.

 

That's exactly what I was just thinking... "I hope this isn't an act of terrorism". Not too sure we want TSA involved with ships and boats too.

 

Not terrorism. Terrorism happens with a full bridge, not a nearly empty one.

 

Terrorism could equal a closed harbor and a major highway closed.
I can't even think how much this will cost.

You have the clean-up, the reconstruction, and the economic hit to the area.
Longer commute times equal more gas = money.

 

Apparently, the captain said he lost power and then hit the bridge
That would be my story too

 

The two river pilots on the ship confirm the loss of propulsion while navigating the river.

Six cars located by sonar under water. Only two people alive from fallen section of bridge.
Not a busy time of day and the bridge had been warned minutes before and closed to traffic before collision. The cars in water just had not gotten off bridge yet.

Back in the old days I went across that bridge often to go to Sparrows Point Bethlehem Steel facility.
It was a toll bridge with lots of signs to stop traffic if needed.

 

working at the ford dealer saturday, the one guy got fired and from the sounds of it he knew it too, and he undid all the progress i did

 

Sure seems like a lot of turnover at that place......

 

there was and is, part of the reason why i left

 

AK - Good to see you pop in! Not sure how much snow I've had here, but it's safe to say you have me beat! (60" or so if I had to guess?)

Whitey - I really appreciate all the filter cutting and evaluation. The three 820's I picked up recently are all the "non-dimpled" drive. I may just return them and go with Purolator or Wix. Shame on Ford/Motorcraft for switching to such a poor facsimile.

It's a darned good thing that shipping accident happened at 1:30 AM instead of 1:30 PM! Wow!