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UKMikey
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Yeah, but if Portland antifa can do it so can we...
... although when they do it they get bombed and arrested by police...
... while they completely ignore us...
... which is what they were protesting about in the first place.
... although when they do it they get bombed and arrested by police...
... while they completely ignore us...
... which is what they were protesting about in the first place.
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It was way more than that 1 section. I don't remember if it was. I-85 N or S but 3 sections got replaced on one side and 1 on the other, plus major fire repairs. Allegedly a group of homeless people were squatting in a DoT storage area under the bridge and set it on fire.I googled. There is an enormous difference in scale between those two projects. The I-85 work consisted of a singe 95' long bridge section being replaced. It's likely the engineering was already done or in the very least very straight forward and it was an emergency repair. The GA 400/I-285 interchange is like 10 miles worth of road improvement - so that's like 500 times more scope, at least. I'm not saying government-managed projects always, or even usually go smoothly, but lets try not to be cynical. There's a wooden bridge in my town that was given this inspection in 2017:
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 16.3 (out of 100)
It was immediately closed after this inspection (for obvious reasons). They are just now beginning to replace it, 3 years later.
Wow this thread has gotten off topic.
The story belongs in the Funny/Strange thread!
I'll leave it at that.
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It still seems orders of magnitude smaller of a project.
But regardless, it's an important topic. Our infrastructure is in a tragic state and I'm worried we have already fallen behind other nations in this regard. Really hoping that Biden means business by putting such a charismatic and obviously ambitious person (Pete Buttigieg) into a post that is typically occupied as a career-capping job for lifetime civil servant types. What the administration needs is a broad mandate from the people to do this work, and Pete seems to be a particularly good choice to get people onboard.
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The NYC area still has so many roadways that are structurally deficient. The Kosciuszko Bridge, Goethals Bridge and the New Tappan Zee Bridge were all replaced and rebuilt within the past 5 years, and the Bayonne Bridge was recently lifted to allow more port traffic in, but plenty of roadways are still at risk of failing. On top of that, the transit situation is going to become a big deal again once the pandemic is over.
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The condition of east coast infrastructure literally makes me anxious. Anytime I go back there to visit family, I feel it.. I think about how bad it is in California, where a lot of the infrastructure was built post 1950. Then I remember that the east coast is ancient in comparison. I remember reading that the NYC subway system has a worrying amount of fabric-wrapped signal cable that dates back to at least the Roosevelt administration...
Seems like the only places where the infrastructure is in good shape is wealthier regions of the south and southwest. Then again, that's partially because a lot of it is recently built.
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I hadn't realised when I posted that there were injuries. Reports are that they're not life threatening but possibly are life changing (percussion damage). Obviously we hope they're not even life changing and that all involved recover as quickly as possible.
Some local emergency response departments have lost their 911 capability. It's not clear if there's equipment damage inside the AT&T building or if this is caused by a power outage. If you ask me it's the first step in the revolution, take out their means of communication and then occupy the library.
Some local emergency response departments have lost their 911 capability. It's not clear if there's equipment damage inside the AT&T building or if this is caused by a power outage. If you ask me it's the first step in the revolution, take out their means of communication and then occupy the library.
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I think it's unnecessary to take it that far. There are crazy people out there and there always have been. No evidence to suggest this was related to the current political climate at all.
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Seems that the camper may have been occupied, human remains have reportedly been found. If this is a suicide attack of some kind (although there's the possibility that any occupant of the RV was their against their will) then one would expect some kind of message from the bomber, I guess we'd have to wait to hear what that is but it should make the motives clearer.
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The Nashville bombing is just so weird. I'm guessing the building was the target for some reason or another, but you'd think if their intent was to cause as much terror as possible they wouldn't have done it in the early morning hours of a holiday. I wonder if it was a disgruntled former employee who lost their job and saw no way to recover, so instead of just committing suicide, they did a suicide bombing.
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This is real weird. It was clearly a pretty serious bomb (gotta be ammonium nitrate, I'd suspect?) in that RV (totally shredded the facade of at least one building). Doesn't the fit the MO of Islamists, especially in a place like Nashville. This seems like a very personal situation...some grievance or something.
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Pretty sure its almost impossible to get ammonium nitrate nowadays.
Lots of 911 dispatches down throughout the state. Still no AT&T cell service.
I’m thinking something to harm law enforcement or attack on telecommunications or AT&T.
Can’t really see a religious nut doing this but one of those 5G conspiracy guys wouldn’t surprise me.
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An investigator interviewed on CNN earlier mentioned that ammonium nitrate emits a signature yellowish smoke. This bomb had black smoke. It was also extremely immediate and violent, whatever it was.
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The bomb exploded in front of an AT&T network hub. It had the effect of a hurricane knocking out at least the power to the facility.
The following focuses on the AT&T part of the story. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion-service-disruptions/index.html
It seems the bomber(s) made every attempt to damage infrastructure but avoid loss of life. At latest report, there were only 3 known injuries.
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In breaking news, human remains may have been found at the scene. Possible suicide or murder.
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Human remains sound like the perp who done this or a poor homeless person.
That building has these huge vents along the sidewalk and the homeless are known to sleep nearby when its cold.
Seeing footage of the explosion go almost as tall as the other AT&T building kinda had me thinking it could be ammonium but regardless it was for sure a large & violent explosion.
That building has these huge vents along the sidewalk and the homeless are known to sleep nearby when its cold.
Seeing footage of the explosion go almost as tall as the other AT&T building kinda had me thinking it could be ammonium but regardless it was for sure a large & violent explosion.
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