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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
Look close. There was something called a dolphin in front of both supports. In 1980 a ship a third the size of the Dali hit the support and the bridge won. If the Dali had hit the dolphin it would have busted it, but it could have slowed it down, or caused it to veer back in the channel...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The ship was traveling about half the speed of a horse pulling a buggy at a fast trot. If the engine quits, and the lights go out, the first thing to do is restart the engine.- Briar Lee
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
From NTSB 12:39 a.m.: Ship departed from the Seagirt Marine Terminal 1:07 a.m.: Ship entered the Fort McHenry Channel 1:24 a.m.: Ship traveling at a heading of 141 at about 9.2 mph 1:24:59 a.m.: Censor data stopped recording, but audio recording continued 1:26:02 a.m.: Censor data recording...- Briar Lee
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
I was just reading how the eight construction workers fell 185 feet to the water, and one is critical, six are dead, and one is lucky. As incredible as it sounds, did the Dali knock a double concrete support over 150 feet high clean over into the channel? Where did the support go? The two...- Briar Lee
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
An article on prevention of bridge collapses. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/how-a-3m-structural-flaw-led-to-catastrophic-collapse-of-baltimore-bridge/amp_articleshow/108813735.cms When they put it back they’ll protect it from a similar cargo ship strike. One question I’d like...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The first concern is six foreign nationals who were construction workers on the bridge are dead, and if they are not properly documented watch the hammer of the Lord fall on whoever hired them. But since the bridge is owned by Maryland we hope the contractor used eVerify. If so the Maryland...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The ship’s captain is a foreign national of a Singapore flagged ship owned my a Denmark shipping company in international waters. That’s why since 1789 America puts an American pilot on those big ships until it clears the harbor. The proper authorities have confined all the crew to the ship...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The United States Army Corp of Engineers is tasked with reopening the channel, salvaging the Dali and getting her clear, then getting that bridge back up, better than it was...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
One of the best things about living in America is we are as first world as first world gets. We don’t have state media. We have a free press. The bad consequence of that today is coffee and barber shop rumors get reported as facts and spread far and wide by social media, and they do it for...- Briar Lee
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The Great RYO Smoke Out!
I found an old foil pouch of Our Advertiser in a humidor full of “pot luck” tobacco I keep. It was moist and looked and smelled good. I remember buying it after they dropped the cloth sack. Our Advertiser cannot compare with Buoy Gold, or Red. It’s mild as the Silver blends. Missouri...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The pilot was faced with sudden power loss on a 100,000 ton ship with a single engine and single screw. I’m surprised they build container ships the size of super carriers with a single screw, but they do, and they run 22 knots laden. If the single engine doesn’t immediately restart the only...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
This morning some things are a bit clearer. Within seconds of the ship losing power the pilot in charge radioed a mayday call to the toll operators which immediately closed the bridge to new traffic. The disaster was four minutes later, the bridge was clear of all traffic except 8 immigrant...- Briar Lee
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The Great RYO Smoke Out!
I need to buy about twenty pounds of Buoy Gold.:) After the word gets out it won’t be as cheap. Imagine a Virginia forward version of Five Brothers. The Red has more vitamin N.- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Joy of a new Zippo
My act of largesse in buying four Zippo lighters, fluid and flints that night in 1975 didn’t go unnoticed. When my mother found out she was happy, but not so much, my girlfriend.:) (Inflation and fashions are never constant but human nature is. Adam would have never in a million years took a...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Joy of a new Zippo
So true! Raymond and Selby Crawford owned R&S and they leased the restaurant to a man and his wife named Rains. Rains paid probably a dollar for every Storm King and maybe two dollars for the $$3.45 Zippos. Rains sold them retail. In 1975 Walmart might have sold a Zippo for what Rains paid...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Joy of a new Zippo
The only ones I remember for sale at R&S that night were the traditional brushed chrome standard Zippos. The inflation calculator says $3.45 in 1975 should be $19.90 today. Instead on sale it’s $14.95. I will say, that Zippo has vastly improved the hinge and hinge pin in the last fifty years...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Joy of a new Zippo
In 1975 a brand new Storm King lighter was a $1.98 and a geniune Zippo was $3.45 at the R&S Truck Stop at Collins, Missouri. There was not a thing wrong with a Storm King. Except they were made of aluminum and weren’t a Zippo. I hit a really good lick one day and my hay hauling crew...- Briar Lee
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
However a huge barge looking thing she is, the Dali is an ocean going ship, capable of 22 knots cruise speed, using only a single fixed speed screw: Xxxxx Dali is propelled by a single low-speed two-stroke crosshead diesel enginecoupled to a fixed-pitch propeller. Its main engine, a...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The Dali had two Port of Maryland pilots at the bridge. The ship is less than a decade old, is NeoPanaMax, 115,000 tons laden, and has just one MAN diesel that drives her at a service speed of 22 knots (one knot faster than the Arizona) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali We are sure...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
The pilot was on the bridge. By chance, I suppose, Coxswain Urban Herschel Marlow from Humansville Missouri was at the helm of the USS Arizona on the morning of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. (It wasn’t his fault.:) ) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174145280/urban-herschel-marlow...- Briar Lee
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