Looks like the main engine went out. The big whoosh of black smoke is apparently what you often get when you start up emergency diesel generators. They provide electricity, but no propulsion. The turning and apparent slowing may be due to an anchor being dropped, hard to tell.
Over the last four years, the Trump administration and Democrats in Congress have made repeated overtures to cooperation on an infrastructure deal. But there is still next to nothing to show for Trump's promises, and much of the national infrastructure is simply four years older. Why couldn't Trump deliver a deal? And in swing states like Pennsylvania, with hundreds of deficient bridges, aging drinking water systems, and transit networks on the verge of pandemic-induced crisis, could that broken promise have consequences in the 2020 election?
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, most of America's infrastructure is in poor condition, "with many elements approaching the end of their service life." ASCE gave the country a D+ on its 2017 "infrastructure report card," which assesses everything from ports and dams to transit, schools, and hazardous waste management. Pennsylvania fared slightly better than the U.S. as a whole in 2018, according to the ASCE, but got low grades for the state of its roads, bridges and transit and water systems. More than 18% of the state's 22,779 highway bridges are in poor condition, according to the report—a better rate than in 2014 but still twice the national average. Meanwhile, water-main breaks are increasing across the state — just this week, a water-main break in Montgomery County, outside Philadelphia, caused officials to issue a boil-water advisory for more than 30,000 households. Public water systems that provide drinking water for Pennsylvania's cities and towns face a $10.2 billion funding gap, according to the report. Only 10 percent of the funding needed to keep the state's wastewater systems in good condition over the next decade is available. Transit and highway projects tend to get the most attention from public officials, says Cathy Farrell, ASCE's co-chair for Pennsylvania's 2018 report card, but the need for investment goes deeper.
"There's categories of infrastructure that you don't necessarily see until it fails, but when it fails, it's a really bad failure," Farrell says.
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Looks like the main engine went out. The big whoosh of black smoke is apparently what you often get when you start up emergency diesel generators. They provide electricity, but no propulsion. The turning and apparent slowing may be due to an anchor being dropped, hard to tell.
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That's advanced modern engineering, making structures at lower cost and with less materials (more environmentally friendly/lower carbon footprint).
If you wanted a bridge that could lose a single column without completely collapsing you should have specified that on the design documents.
"Anyone can build a bridge, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
Originally posted by Donald Trump
That's advanced modern engineering, making structures at lower cost and with less materials (more environmentally friendly/lower carbon footprint).
If you wanted a bridge that could lose a single column without completely collapsing you should have specified that on the design documents.
it was designed in the 60s.
back then with segregation and white men running everything this kind of mishaps was completely unimaginable.
