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Subject: Re: Baltimore Bridge
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:19:51 -0400
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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:
> 
>> 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...

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