Cargo Ship Takes Down Maryland Bridge After Experiencing Power Outage
Published 1 year ago in Wtf
In a twist on the old nursery rhyme, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland is now the one falling down.
A portion of the iconic structure plummeted into the Patapsco River at roughly 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning after a large container ship collided with one of the bridge’s support beams.
In the city of Baltimore, a bridge has collapsed entirely into the Patapsco River following a collision with a cargo ship.
— Morbid Knowledge (@Morbidful) March 26, 2024
According to the Baltimore City Fire Department, up to 20 individuals and multiple vehicles have plunged into the river.
Emergency responders are… pic.twitter.com/1pfMCwZAjo
The column snapped and bucked upon impact with the ship —which is said to have lost power — sending a part of the bridge, several drivers and cars into the water below, per local news outlet Fox 5 DC.
"We may be looking for upwards of seven individuals, that's the latest information we have,” James Wallace, Baltimore City’s Fire Chief, said of their “active search and rescue” efforts involving the Coast Guard.
Two people have been rescued and a search is ongoing after a cargo ship struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 26, 2024
"We are firstly and mainly concerned about those that we know are in the water and every thing else is secondary to that," Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott says. pic.twitter.com/RC4OOpB6SB
Approximately two people have been rescued from the ordeal so far, one of which remains in "very serious" condition, according to Wallace .
We can only hope that these survivors make a speedy recovery — and that future engineers pay a little more attention during their middle school toothpick bridge-building activitiy.
Basketball Fan Shows Off His Kroger Card in the Most Midwest Flex of All Time
As a Midwesterner, I can admit that large parts of where we come from aren’t exactly the best.
Published 1 year ago in Funny
As a Midwesterner, I can admit that large parts of where we come from aren’t exactly the best. The Midwest is a cold, mostly empty space where every spare moment is filled by drinking as much alcohol as humanly possible. At least there’s cheese curds!
Because of this lack of, well, most things, we’re immensely proud of what we’ve got. Culver’s is an institution, and people love Kroger so much that they’re showing off their Kroger cards at sports games.
This is the most Midwest shit I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/PiEiOGDIoZ
— (@salzmann__) March 21, 2024
At a recent game between the Toronto Raptors and the Indiana Pacers, the crowd was asked to show their Kroger cards — and dammit, they did.
According to other people on X/Twitter, this is a pretty common occurrence at Pacers games, and Kroger has such a close partnership with the team that they printed their logo on receipts for a while.
Every single pacers home game they ask for people to stand up and hold their Kroger card. I haven’t lived in a city with a Kroger in 8 years but keep my card on me incase I go to a pacer game
— $M (@Scott2Hotttie1) March 22, 2024
But as many respondents noted, there are definitely ways we could make this more Midwestern. Have him holding a plate of ham roll-ups while playing cornhole and suffering from ungodly amounts of seasonal depression, *then* he will be a true representative of our kind.
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