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An interesting FB comentary from a retired marine engineer, at least from looking at the released footage. It looks like they set the ship up for a turn after the power came back on after the first blackout, then they lost power for the second time. The rudder was hard down for the turn, maximum power on the prop. The ship was aimed for the middle of the span, when the power went down for the second time, lots of energy in the turn and the rudder was locked hard down from the lack of power.... No way to steer without power. Possibly primary and backup power systems malfunctioned (my thoughts). It was a case of cascading failures. When was the last time this ship was inspected.

I've seen estimates of 30 thousand vehicles daily across the FSK Bridge. Very fortunate that the accident happened in the middle of the night and not during peak hours. I don't know whether the scheduled roadwork had any impact, but they were given enough notice to be able to stop traffic. From what I've heard only workers were on the bridge. It could have been much worse

From what I'm hearing the vehicles on the bridge were part of a road crew patching potholes. There was a radio message, I believe, to close the bridge. I'm not sure how much time occurred between the message and the collision.

I prefer the original as opposed to the Disneyfied remake

I guess Thou Shall Not Kill and Love thy neighbor is no longer in these folks bibles

Especially since the pilot and crew were locals familiar with the harbor and the river. There were no crew members aboard the ship at the time. But, let's ban foreign flagged cargo ships.

The TMobile/MLB pass dropped today. My chance to get free games from MLB.Com

Real Men of Genius; Businessman version

Props to Rod Wood for being fairly transparent. This was basically all the team could do.

Is Flag Football permitted? The new NFFL Flag Football League

Pure American Genius...

In order to form a more perfect Union ???

What do you think of someone like Tony Bennett (UVa) looks like he needs a change of scenery.

These sites seem to be legit..

More from the Trumpian Oligarchs

Who's on your short list.

Not to rub it in, but nearly 60 and overcast. Cooler than earlier this week. The monsoon is expected tomorrow with 2 plus inches of rainfall expected. The good news is the rain should help with the spate of wildfires in the western mountains

And another one bites the dust

So Biden "forgot" about the documents while Trump would regularly show them off to every Tom, Richard and Ivan. Lied about having them and tried to obstruct their recovery. Two wrongs may not make a right but one of the wrongs puts them in the John and Arthur Walker category. That's at least 25 years minimum in my book

There have been time where I would have liked to challenge some of those "armchair GM's" to play a couple of seasons in an APBA or similar draft league. I'm to old and crotchety for that drama now

It's probably a numbers game and a chance for Manning to work on a few more things

Just more performance. No actual governing from the majority party