These six workers who perished were not "poisoning the blood of our country," they were replenishing it. This is a moment of clarity when we need to reject the national disease of #xenophobia and restore our faith in the #UnitedStates as a beacon for the best people. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.
Looking at the momentum built up by the cargo ship hitting the bridge in Baltimore.
The total weight of the ship+max cargo is 423.958 million pounds. The ship was traveling at 9.2 mph. That means the cargo ship’s momentum was 1,742,467,380 pounds•meters/second.
Talk about Effective Communications. The MD governor reported the ship called a mayday and the traffic going onto the bridge was stopped before the collapse.
No sense of how much time passed or when the mayday was called in relation to the collapse, but it couldn't have been very long.
If you don’t know, the Key Bridge was a toll bridge so if the message was passed, the opportunity to close down traffic relatively quickly was possible and clearly took place.
The Key Bridge collapse is a disaster for Baltimore. Guessing all the shipping will be rerouted to the other major East Coast ports. But those jobs will be lost to Baltimore. Not to mention the logistical nightmare of rerouting all that traffic.
Long-term, they’ll rebuild that bridge, a long time coming, and there will be a lot of jobs that go along with that.