Major bridge collapse in Baltimore

Granny wants a word.

 

Thanks for the info, and good luck.

 

My Mom’s first pregnancy also ended in a miscarriage a few months before I was conceived. After I was born, she became pregnant again, went on a trip with my Dad to the Caribbean while a neighbor watched me, suffered an ectopic pregnancy and had to have an emergency operation to save her life.

So if not for a couple of pregnancy complications, my parents could have had two kids, and neither of them would have been me. Or my Dad could have become a widowed parent with one child that wasn’t me.

 

My mom had three miscarriages: two before me and one after. The one after came while we were on vacation at Myrtle Beach. They gave up after that. I guess 3 should be my lucky number.

 

When I was young, I’d ask my parents why I didn’t have any brothers or sisters as I was at the age when the concept of a baby sibling seemed cool. My parents humored me until I was older, and then told me what happened.

 

We'd go over that in a bus once or twice a hockey season going to a from the Soo. A real white knuckle ride for me especially if it was windy but not quite windy enough for us to not be able to get over. Though I am very much looking forward to visiting that area in the summer.

 

The key to driving over the Mackinac Bridge is to just keep looking forward. Which kind of feels like a maxim for life, come to think of it.

 

God, yes, even as a passenger I just stared straight ahead, not to either side. Though I knew as soon as we were over it going south we were closer to Spike's Keg O' Nails in Grayling, one of the great stops on the OHL circuit!

 

It's been a long time since I've been over the bridge since I left Michigan, but the thing is that compared to the bridges we've been posting pictures of, the pitch of it isn't that high. It's five miles long so they can make it pretty gradual. Not sure if the Big Buck Brewery is still there in Gaylord (which got whacked by a tornado a couple years ago). Folks also really like the Cut River Inn on the other (good!) side of the bridge, though for me, I was always trying to either get home or get to CMU so I didn't stop on the way very often, other than a pit stop at the St. Ignace McDonalds.

 

Can someone really make an intelligent argument why Pete Buttigieg should be fired or forced to resign because of the Key Bridge collapse?

“He’s in charge and the buck stops here” is only true if there were actually something he could have done to prevent the collapse.

https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/1772591177188909362?s=46&t=f1bCJ9Ncf7mPQzqE8-YWxQ

 

And how much of the "derailed trains, planes falling from the sky and collapsed bridges" have to do with deregulation that every GOP President since Nixon has managed to ram through? It's not the Transporation Secs' fault that Boeing is sending unsafe planes in the air. That bridge was built in 1977 and fell apart like matchsticks. How is that his fault?