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In article <uu6im7$b577$8@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 3/28/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <uu4adb$3mth9$2@dont-email.me>,
> >   "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>>>> Just saw on the news that Joe Biden has pledged that the government 
> >>>>> will "pay the entire cost" of rebuilding the Baltimore bridge.
> >>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>
> >>>>> 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?
> >>
> >>>>> I submit the "Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl Memorial Bridge".
> >>
> >>>> The federal government can act to get repairs started today while the
> >>>> lawyers act to collect any money due from the company/insurance.
> >>
> >>> The bridge won't be repaired. It'll be 5 to 7 years at least.
> >>
> >> Here's an article from the Baltimore Sun. Turn off javascript to read.
> >>
> >> https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/how-long-to-rebuild-key-bridge/
> >>
> >> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> >> The replacement will have to take into account larger vessels and sea
> >> level rise
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> This has been explained to you for decades.  Decades...

Liar.