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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Baltimore Bridge
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:48:39 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> 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.

Baltimore-specific sea level rise not found elsewhere,

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.
>
>> so it's entire cost won't be charged to the collision.
>> They'll have to calculate the cost to replace it with like kind and the
>> difference between that and the new structure will be borne by
>> taxpayers. I don't they'll have to pay for years of reduced commerce.
>> 
>> >Don't you remember St. Petersburg?