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Anonymous wrote:Sad to think there are a great many Americans who just won't care about the killed highway workers because they were brown migrants from Central America.

I don't think this is true. Given the horror of the video, people around the world are thinking of the victims.

Agreed.

Anonymous wrote:Still confused how the shipping container hit the pillars even if it did lose power…

Get on a boat. It doesn't have stop on a dime breaks. Or rudders that work powerless.

Anonymous wrote:When my elderly mom was alive, she would have totally needed reassurance that I was safe from anything that had happened within hundreds of miles from where I lived.

+1. I literally learned about this first from MIL who texted us at 530am “checking to make sure we were ok.” But now that I think about it, it’s probably attention seeking behavior rather than genuine concern!

Anonymous wrote:How do we have video of the impact? Are there cameras always pointing at the bridge to manage shipping or something?

Yes ! Many many camera views. Go to your news site. They all have videos

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Texas.

This was around 20 years ago, right?

These photos are irrelevant to the topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people marking themselves safe from the bridge collapse on FB?

The media quickly quantified the limited number of victims.

It’s the worst kind of attention seeking.

To be fair, it’s probably easier than answering countless texts from friends/family who know little beyond “key bridge in Baltimore collapses.”

It happened in the middle of the night during the work week (not weekend), and the people I see doing it are older white women who don’t live anywhere near the bridge and wouldn’t be out that late at night. It’s so weird.

It’s a gross joke. The “marked safe from X” has been a joke on FB for years. Anyone doing that after this tragedy would be unfriended and cut from my life.

I don’t know anyone doing this, and I have a number of family and friends who live in the Baltimore area. Maybe you run in an attention-seeking circle?

Me either. Literally none. Stop with the invented drama.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people marking themselves safe from the bridge collapse on FB?

The media quickly quantified the limited number of victims.

It’s the worst kind of attention seeking.

To be fair, it’s probably easier than answering countless texts from friends/family who know little beyond “key bridge in Baltimore collapses.”

It happened in the middle of the night during the work week (not weekend), and the people I see doing it are older white women who don’t live anywhere near the bridge and wouldn’t be out that late at night. It’s so weird.

It’s a gross joke. The “marked safe from X” has been a joke on FB for years. Anyone doing that after this tragedy would be unfriended and cut from my life.

I don’t know anyone doing this, and I have a number of family and friends who live in the Baltimore area. Maybe you run in an attention-seeking circle?

Anonymous wrote:They need to set up a ferry for locals. Something like within X miles of the bridge and only provide it for locals.

I cant imagine living in Sparrows Point and commuting to Glen Burnie for work and then your 20 min commute turns into 1.5 hours. Or vice versa. The surrounding areas are mostly working class and cannot afford this- in time or in funds.

Yes. This was very much a blue collar bridge.

My husband and I lived and worked in Baltimore for 15 years and never once crossed it. We went to graduate and medical school in the city and then worked as a nurse and doctor at Hopkins. We lived in some very rough neighborhoods along the way (rent for $150 a month! in grad school for me) but this part of the city is not someplace that the professional class of Baltimore travels to. The bridge served the shipping community, others in blue collar jobs and the communities in the local neighborhoods (predominantly immigrants and the white working class).

It's an incredibly worrisome loss because it will impact the livelihood of many people who do not have other options for employment and who live on very thin margins.

I am laughing at all the CNN wannabes posting this on their Instagram story. Like yes, we all watch the news, don’t need to see 500 reposts of the same article. And half of them are somehow making it about themselves ‘I was there last week omggg’

Anonymous wrote:When my elderly mom was alive, she would have totally needed reassurance that I was safe from anything that had happened within hundreds of miles from where I lived.

Then you would call and tell her. Not post on FB that you are “marked safe” from a bridge collapse at 1am.

Anonymous wrote:NYTs confirms that many of the missing workers were migrants, working for a company called Brawner (a construction contractor based in Baltimore County)

Gift article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse-victims-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f00.Npus.i1INI-O6sIm0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A construction company employee who said he had labored alongside the six men missing after a Baltimore bridge collapse on Tuesday said that many of his co-workers were migrants working to support their relatives.

“We’re low-income families,” said Jesus Campos, who has worked at the construction company, Brawner Builders, for about eight months. “Our relatives are waiting for our help back in our home countries.”
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He told The Baltimore Banner that the employees who remained missing were from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.

A nonprofit that provides services to immigrants in Baltimore confirmed that at least one of the missing men, Miguel Luna, was from El Salvador. Mr. Luna, 40, is married and has three children, said Gustavo Torres, the executive director of the nonprofit, We Are Casa. He said Mr. Luna had been living in Maryland for at least 19 years.

All of that info was also available on wapo and Baltimore news. The wife gave an interview with a translator and the son spoke with wapo. It’s so sad.

They need to set up a ferry for locals. Something like within X miles of the bridge and only provide it for locals.

I cant imagine living in Sparrows Point and commuting to Glen Burnie for work and then your 20 min commute turns into 1.5 hours. Or vice versa. The surrounding areas are mostly working class and cannot afford this- in time or in funds.

NYTs confirms that many of the missing workers were migrants, working for a company called Brawner (a construction contractor based in Baltimore County)

Gift article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse-victims-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f00.Npus.i1INI-O6sIm0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A construction company employee who said he had labored alongside the six men missing after a Baltimore bridge collapse on Tuesday said that many of his co-workers were migrants working to support their relatives.

“We’re low-income families,” said Jesus Campos, who has worked at the construction company, Brawner Builders, for about eight months. “Our relatives are waiting for our help back in our home countries.”
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He told The Baltimore Banner that the employees who remained missing were from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.

A nonprofit that provides services to immigrants in Baltimore confirmed that at least one of the missing men, Miguel Luna, was from El Salvador. Mr. Luna, 40, is married and has three children, said Gustavo Torres, the executive director of the nonprofit, We Are Casa. He said Mr. Luna had been living in Maryland for at least 19 years.

Anonymous wrote:Would there have been a warning sound? I know the ship sent a Mayday but would they have also sounded a horn or siren?

It wouldn’t have mattered. There was no time to get off.

Anonymous wrote:Would there have been a warning sound? I know the ship sent a Mayday but would they have also sounded a horn or siren?

A horn probably requires power, and the ship experienced a power outage. Would people even know what a horn meant? Trains use them all the time, not just in emergency situations.