Re: Baltimore Bridge

On 3/30/2024 3:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <uu9csk$1363u$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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On 3/29/24 1:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <uu6im7$b577$8@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On 3/28/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <uu4adb$3mth9$2@dont-email.me>,
    "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:55:30 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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Just saw on the news that Joe Biden has pledged that the government
will "pay the entire cost" of rebuilding the Baltimore bridge.

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Huh? Shouldn't the shipping company and its insurance agency foot the
bill? It's like he just can't wait for any opportunity to fuck the
taxpayer.

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And when it's rebuilt, obviously it can't be renamed the Francis Scott
Key Bridge. I mean, "old straight racist white guy", amirite? So what
will its new name be?

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I submit the "Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl Memorial Bridge".

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The federal government can act to get repairs started today while the
lawyers act to collect any money due from the company/insurance.

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The bridge won't be repaired. It'll be 5 to 7 years at least.

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Here's an article from the Baltimore Sun. Turn off javascript to read.
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/how-long-to-rebuild-key-bridge/ >
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Ignore "rebuild" in the headline. No one is saying it can be rebuilt.
It's going to be replaced with something brand new. I'm sure the
piers will both be relocated closer to shore.

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And higher, too. I drove across the Key Bridge regularly when I was a DC
denizen and it was kinda scary how high up you got with seemingly very
little to stop you from going over the side if you lost control.
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The replacement will have to take into account larger vessels and sea
level rise

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Which is non-existent pretty much everywhere. There's been no sea level
rise over the last 12 years at the beach down the street from me; when I
visited Miami's South Beach two years ago, the ocean was in the same
place it was in the pictures of my visit 20 years earlier (despite
AlGore's insistence that Miami would be underwater by 2011); Plymouth
Rock isn't underwater; the water level around the base of the Statue of
Liberty hasn't changed since it was erected, etc., etc.

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This has been explained to you for decades. Decades...

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Liar.

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Over and over and over and you still repeat the same old bullshit as
everything around us goes to shit.

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Given that the enviro-kooks have been predicting sea level rise since
the late 90s, even famously direly warning that Miami would be
underwater by 2011, one would think that there would be *some* evidence
of a, ya know, sea level rise.

 "Between 1901 and 2018, average global sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), an average of 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) per year. This rate accelerated to 4.62 mm (0.182 in)/yr for the decade 2013–2022. Climate change due to human activities is the main cause."
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise