Barge hit Pelican Island Causeway, causing portion to fall, officials say
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- A barge hit the Pelican Island Causeway Wednesday morning, causing a piece of the bridge to fall, according to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.
Crashing bridges seems the new trend.
No. Texas A&M-managed bridges and bonfires have a long history of collapses... South Padre Island Bridge collapse, etc.
No. You’re just new to bridge collisions and collapses.
There is a near endless litany of bridge related calamities dating back to when mankind began increasing the quantity and size of bridges. It is the inherent nature of a bridge to be a potential source of collapse for any number of reasons… including collisions to their supports.
terroist attack
railway was already abandoned. it's a nothing burger you schizo
Yep, it just "happens" now. Interesting how all these "accidents" are so synchronized and happen within just weeks or months of each other. It's almost as if the globalist powers are sending America a message to "stay in line" and not interfere in certain international events... or else.
Just as many bridges have collapsed as Boeing whistleblowers have died.
💀
No foul play here. Let's wrap it up and call it a day -FBI
Meanwhile European leaders are being assassinated for not wasting their peoples money on Ukraine
Food production plants burning down and train derailments were a thing too
They don’t know the difference between gallons and barrels. That barge is loaded full. It is a 30,000 barrel capacity barge which is 1.26M gallons. I know this because I did that type of work for 10 years
Why do you believe it's full? Because the amount of freeboard visible? Was this tug and barge leaving from a delivery or headed to its destination? I am not familiar with this area at all.
Trust me it’s full. My company just finished loading those barges this morning
Tell em smalls!
Would it fill up at a port near this area? The guy said "it was VOC/ Vaccum Oil Gas, (thin oil???) Are there no doubble hull structues in boat design to protect contents of collision?
@@justinmann7537 Oooohhh DARN! Where is that guy with} the miracle stop any leaks, even under water tape and paint" when we need to stop that leak?
No excuse for this
This has become ridiculous. The corporation owning the barge should be criminally prosecuted.
Barge owner had nothing to do with it. Barges do not have any propulsion. The responsibility lies solely with the tug boat operators.
Educate yourself before you look like a fool on the internet. Next you'll blame wheelbarrows for toppling over. 🤦♂
@@dominicm2175 Understood, but apparently the barge-owner contracted with the tug owner. Just saying that those who damaged the bridge need to be responsible for the cost of repairs.
While this is questionable, the fault lies solely on the tug crew! There is absolutely no way to control a runaway barge, whoever didn't secure the barge to the tug is gonna be facing some legal issues in the coming days.
abbot said no
"Accidental" went down the road quite some time ago.
bridge attack
Why wouldn't this be accidental? This bridge only takes people to a couple corporate facilities and a small university campus (TAMUG) that had just finished graduations this past week (I know this because A&M had graduations this past week). It's not a major bridge so to say it was on purpose is ludicrous.
@troybaxter lol maybe one day when you grow up you will understand
@@Bevis23 see, stuff like this pisses me off. Y'all focus on the wrong things and make conspiracies out of nothing. This diminishes the people's trust and beliefs in actual conspiracies that are worthy of investigating. When you wrongly conflate these ship crashes to bridges that are CLEARLY not a part of some grand conspiracy with events like the Boeing crashes, you hurt the actual efforts in trying to expose that corrupt company.
@@Bevis23 explain to me the reasoning for why they would want to take out this specific bridge. The burden of proof is on you to explain to me why I should believe y'all's conspiracy.
Just another accident, right? But of course if you have ANY questions, you will be labeled a conspiracy theorist!
Try solar storms being the cause and not wild paranoid conspiracy tales dipstick
Look up how many times this has happened in the last 60 years this is more common than must people relize.
@@jessejames7757 I don't think most Americans realize how old all our infrastructure really is. Though in this and the Baltimore case, I'm not sure it'd have mattered. Barges have always been destructive, I recall one taking out a bridge in the 90s and derailing a train, but boats have only gotten bigger as well which causes issues.
You can ask questions. However. You can get answers after the investigation. Not before. In regards to the barge, it happens often. More often than you think. I almost sank a barge 2h ago. Got it trapped in the lock and almost submerge it.
And scientists have prove that we will run out of conspiracy theories by 2025 if they keep on coming true at these rates
This seems to be the only way to get bridges rebuilt. Watch out bridges!! Here comes a boat!!
Nefarious / suspicious - This year, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore gets damaged beyond repair and now this bridge - hmmm...what is going on? Where's Pete Bootyfudge?
@@jayhouse3149stop with the conspiracy theories. The Dali lost power and couldn't get power back on in time to direct the ship away from the bridge. If there was anything nefarious about it, the incident would have happened in broad daylight, not 3 in the morning.
Likewise, there is likely nothing nefarious here, just pure incompetence. I mean, what's the advantage of damaging a bridge that only goes to a few commercial facilities and a small university campus that just wrapped up their graduations?
@@troybaxterDali should’ve been tugged as should this one. Convenient the Dali lost power due to a “circuit break” that could have easily been someone flipping the breaker. It’s not a conspiracy when the facts line up to malfeasance. State gets a brand new bridge for free
@@jayhouse3149your homophobic comment has some serious LDE going on. No wonder ur into conspiracies.
@@jayhouse3149 Pete is D E I which is a Trojan Horse hiring scheme so it can hire said person and the purpose of protecting the agenda or scam. You folks don't get it yet. It's a hiring excuse for evil intentions.
Starting to limit....roadways
True
Only access to large city
Can’t bug out to Galveston worstcase
Hmmm...and supply lines
They still haven’t gotten around cleaning up Baltimore bridge. Could take years to rebuilt. Now this.
The highways will be the militaries checkpoint
All these boats and bridges crashing. I wonder what's going on???
Where’s petey bootyjeg he will probably call it a racist bridge.
You're waking up to the world outside your neighborhood. This stuff happens all the time, just like car crashes. Bridges collapse all the time. Occasionally the two intersect.
What’s happening is a new generation is taking over from the last generation. The newer people have fewer skills, substantially less experience and take less responsibility for learning what they need to know. They figure that they’ll be doing something else in five years, so why bother learning something about their job. It’s happening all across the world, not just the United States. The loss of skill is noticeable in every aspect of the workplace. I was one of the senior members of my union and one of the few who bothered to train my crew. I had a stroke while teaching a class. I’m now retired.
Nothing is going on. Y'all are trying to imply nefarious intent to incidents where nefarious intent doesn't make any sense. I know that bridge and where it goes. It's not a major bridge. The only people it truly hurts are the students still trying to move out and TAMUG faculty.
Americans have become paranoid cowards. There are major solar storms happening. It could be affecting ships' electronics and functions. There, fixed it for you. No ghost under your bed smh
Nobody knows how to do their job anymore.
Do their job OR elect a Real President.
Correction, nobody that corporate America is willing to hire knows how to do their job anymore because they are only willing to pay Walmart greeter wages for every non-management job on the roster.
@@tetrabromobisphenol Tell us you're a moron without telling us you're a moron. Tell us you don't understand economics without telling us you don't understand economics. Tell us you're uneducated without telling us you're uneducated.
Was the tugboat operator a diversity hire or something?
@@RevTox The unattached barge hit the bridge. Not the tugboat operator.
How many is this now?! 😮
2 , so far this year. Fairly common occurrence.
It's 3 now
2 and the barge was loaded with gas and oil
It’s actually more than 20
@@letsnotforget2568
This year?
they're not even trying to contain that oil - that river looks filthy anyways.
The area that the barge is in can have deceptively swift current. That barge is drawing 10 ft, is 54 ft wide and 300ft long. Loaded, it is HEAVY!!!
Where the oil is flowing to may be only a foot deep so it’s going to take some real effort to get it boomed off. It’s too shallow for a boat and too soft for a vehicle to pull boom with.
That water has always been filthy and looked like this...
That's the Gulf of Mexico, between two islands near the Texas coastline, west of the Mississippi River. The flow of the water in the gulf pushes the muddy river delta waters west down the coast from Louisiana to Texas. It doesn't really get very clear until you get down to Corpus Christi or South Padre Island.
There are no coincidences.
This is no coincidence
No coincidences
Right!?!🤔
No braincells
Everything is controlled by evil people.
@@LewdDewd-xw8gvI'm sorry. You should take up an instrument. It helps repair them.
@LewdDewd-xw8gv thats unfortunate man, maybe your mother shouldnt have fkd her father and made a brain dead abomination such as yourself. At least your keyboard warrior fingers still work fine.
It’s broad daylight, and the weather is perfect. Somebody’s going to jail!
Это Вам не дикий запад. Просто сломалось управление , исчезла манёвренность. Там тишь и гладь.
Probably not, they were probably DEI hires and are precious, precious, precious babies of the left.
Just by looking at the with of that barge you can see it would never fit under that bridge, so why is it even there to begin with?
They were trying to back out. It’s a draw bridge but they know they can’t leave and go under the bridge. The terminal has a dock that is built very close to the bridge
Так хотели проверить, а вышло оно вон как. Не помещается.
At what point is this just a coincidence? 🙄
As a former towboater I'm confused why spill bouies ain't in the water ? I've seen spills and the first thing is to contain the spill!
It may be too shallow to get the containment boom out and the boom locker may be trapped in the area where the allision occurred.
They want to contaminate food sources for everyone.
Cause it is done on purpose !
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” Ian Fleming
Auric Goldfinger! Great quote
Taking out our bridges, what’s next?
Look at the one in CT.
Tax money goes to Israel and not to the bridge. Is this the fault of Palestine?
So they were supposed to fix the bridge when there was nothing wrong with it till the barge hit it. Why does everyone seem to think that an accident was deliberate?
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Thanks for the awesome info!😊
Well i guess the price of an oil change is going to skyrocket. FUCK bIDEN. You will own nothing, and be happy.
It’s 30k barrels not gallons
How much is a barrel? 45 gallons for shipping not 55 gallons...
42 gallons for 1 barrel of oil
It's somewhere in the range of 1.2 million gallons of oil..
Boats hitting bridges…supply warehouses burning down…sounds like a hit on supply and demand to me, but nothing to see here folks, just strange coincidences is all 😂😢 🇺🇸
Right!?;🤔
But there's a little thing that smart people need ....proof
It sounds normal, common occurrences.
When America was great it would have been strictly local news. Now it's 7/24 conspiracy postulation.
Trump 2024.
@@LewdDewd-xw8gv I bet you still believe in Santa & the Easter bunny. Your willful ignorance is laughable
@scholaroftheunlight didn’t know intelligence had a specific sound. Your ears must be massive, picking up frequencies others can’t.
The year of bridge bashing
So many accidents! 🤨
How about this country gets it s#!÷ together.
Fucking eh right!
HOW BOUT YOU COME TAKE THIS PEDOFILE BIDEN AND PEICE OF 💩💩💩💩OBAMA.....They are the ones destroying our country. Besides other countries from what I've seen in RUclips aren't much better.
calm down karen
Lately a lots "accidents" are occurring all US. Something is not right here. Is like little steps to sink the country.
Fjb
In my opinion, I would certainly question the relationship to other recent, similar incidents. Just does not look or sound right.
Nefarious / suspicious - This year, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore gets damaged beyond repair and now this bridge - hmmm...what is going on? Where's Pete Bootyfudge?
@@jayhouse3149bootyfudge is looking for his boyfriends hamster
These are attacks
Well, they weren’t very efficient.
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Hummm mighty funny how when one boat crashes a bridge more follow. When one train wrecks , more follow, when processing plant blows, more follow. I guess we are all just stupid….
exactely
FBI said nothing to see here. 🤣
They couldn’t find who’s coke was in the White House
They know, probably allowed it
And atf is going to murder the "potential " whistle blower tug boat captain
Oil spilling and going far from the barge. Cancel vacay plans, gross oil covers everything unless they clean it up quickly.
Wildlife Refuge should be the first concern but they are more concerned about this huge barge that just by looking at it with no special expertise in barge management, certainly appears is was just stupid, negligent handling of the barge that NO WAY looks like it could fit under that bridge. Get on that oil spill fast or you lose your wildlife, aquatic life, and more for generations.
You know,...I was asking myself how could that barge possibly fit under the bridge?
@@CasperChicago there's a drawbridge that the barge would go under you can see it perfectly at 3:16
When a barge breaks free from the tug that means it's floating uncontrollably. Makes total sense the barge itself made contact somewhere else than where it was supposed to pass. Barges are known to break free from their rugs on a pretty regular basis. They have crew constantly monitoring the attaching cables tightness and try to head off problems like this before it happens, but sometimes accidents do occur and they break free. On the Mississippi and Ohio rivers alone, this is a very common occurrence. Once broken free it will be a scramble and take a lot of skill and luck to regain control of the broken free barge.
Seems like a lot of people without critical thinking are present in this comment section.
Where is the hazmat teams, probably not in the Budget
That’s what they want. Thanks biden
Why isnt there any mention of the oil slick?
What a coincidence?? Don’t deny it. Hmmm.
This happened in Baltimore
Coincidence…….I think not
This is NO accident . Wake up!
They letting anyone drive these barges ...give me a damn job I bet I won't hit shit.
i think it was being towed and the lines snapped.. in that case the weight was very underestimated.
**edit: it was a coupling that failed
Wrong for both. The barge wasn’t being towed, it was moored to a dock or pier. If the barge was being towed or being pushed they could have stopped the barge. And you can not drive a barge. Barges don’t move under there own power. Barges of transported by using push boats commonly referred to as tug boats.
TIME LINE 3:12......meanwhile...as the OIL IS LEAKING AND FLOWING FROM THE BARGE.
How do you not see a bridge🤔
Hmmmm…..imagine that!
Whaaaat is going on? Geez
Smell like a distraction
That part is so large and probably should not be allowed there and it should have several tugboats helping it through
Капитан видимо не учёл направление и скорость ветра, воздействия волн на корпус судна. Да и вообще как такое может быть, если только судно просто поломалось, от слова совсем стало, неуправляемое.
This is going to keep happening vessels get bigger but infrastructure stays the same.
No way these bridge collapses are coincidental. This is being done on purpose.
People do live on the island in an apt building. Some are crossing the bridge one by one right now.
HOW COME NO ONE TAGS THIS AS A TERRORIST PLOT OF ATTACK?
The railroad bridge has been out of operation for decades, and in fact a portion of it near where the barge struck it was already gone. Check the views from GE. The latest picture shows at least 2 spans missing as of 2/23/2023. The highway portion was closed out of caution until inspectors can certify that its ok for use. Should be interesting to find out how the barge ended up so close to the shoreline when the lift section where it should have been headed is nearly 300 yards away.
It's too weird this keeps happening.
Build Back Better
We could just do the endless Infrastructure Week that Trump the Conman had where we don't actually pass any bills or fix anything. So keep on fellating the Felon. You are good at it I am sure!
Democrats never built a thing, they only know how to destroy what others have built! *TRUMP for the WIN* or we're all done in!
@@harrycrazy46...that's called slander bud.
@@justintime41776It's called free speech. We aren't under a gag order, idiot. My saying you are an idiot is my opinion and thus also protected under the 1st amendment.
“You can’t just barge into the side of a bridge now a days”
Barge: “Hold my beer”.
Not an accident
How Sway …how? All of that room to maneuver. How?
I would recall any representatives that refuse to investigate this trend!
Norwalk CT,now this let’s make the Francis Scott Key bridge look normal
Texas fires floods tornadoes bridges falling down someone's pissed at you
That's some nasty looking water without the oil.
THIRD bridge in the span of a month and a half. These are not accidents.
This new Tik Tok trend is getting out of hand
This is Sabbatage! U.S. Fed. Govt. Needs to find out who's responsible!
Corporate America is, duh! Why do you think we have a 'trucker shortage' and a 'mechanic shortage'. They didn't all get abducted by aliens. We've collectively decided it's more important to guarantee profits for shareholders than to have a functioning country.
Какое же это вредительство? Это экологическая катастрофа.
They oughta know, they paid for it to be done
What did the saboteurs gain?
Seawolf Park is on Pelican Island and it's a popular fishing spot. I was just there about 3 months ago. If the engineers deem the bridge as unsafe, I hope there is a ferry that anyone there can use to get their vehicles off the island.
same thing happened to the Bridge to South Padre Island back in 2001 and everyone with a boat made good money carrying water and goods and people back and forth until the bridge was repaired.
They opened the bridge temporarily to allow vehicles out
Wow!!
I wouldn't say there's any acquaintance.Just me saying
Except construction to last 50 years. 👍🏾
They ran out of trains to de-rail!!
All part of the plan.
Conspiracies are idiotic
Every single bridge in Texas could have been rebuilt with the amount of money sent to Ukraine
Exactly
And they could have saved some pelicans too 🦢🦢🦢
ISRAEL has cost us Trillions...........
@@bullbutter9699 You misspelled Palestine & their terrorist allies.
@@bullbutter9699 shh you cant say that, Christians need to bring about the Rapture, uhh I mean, Israel has a right to genocide, whoops I meant, you're antisemitic! /s
You’d think after Baltimore, captains and engineers would be SUPER observant and make sure all the maintenance was up to date.
Wow, a new trend of accident on water!
Lets all enjoy the huge oil slick
Love it how the media is paying more attention to these incidents since the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Samething with train derailments and Boeing planes. Nothing new here. Just an everyday occurrence that's finally surfacing on the media.
The oil was in the pipelines. No cargo tank rupture.
Reporter - "what is the oil and gas used for?"
I don't see how that barge could even get through the concrete pillars of the bridge. This was completely avoidable and should never have happened. Now the wildlife is in danger because of this stupidity.
Watch this.... Hold my beer!
According to multiple sources there are 9000 residents - is this a different Pelican Island?
And they say history never repeats itself. This time on a far smaller scale.
Why no containment bouys
It's not really a huge deal for road traffic, the road deck seems perfectly fine.
This whole story has been overblow and misrepresented. The coast guard and the oil company and local officials held a press conference this morning. The railroad part of the bridge has been out of operation for (possibly) decades...it sustained no new damage. "VOG" is "vacuum-oil-gas" which is wasted and or spilled oil and gasoline that has been vacuumed up for various sources and is waste. It was on its' way to be treated and-or disposed. The actual spill was minor and has (mostly) been vacuumed up. There is NO BARGE TRAFFIC under this portion of the bridge.
That's a full barge 🤷♂️
Anybody thinks This is a coincidence Needs to educate Themselves,, This is the Third one in two months and a incident like this has never been reported on the last 35 years
thanks for the update. good question.
This is a pretty common thing . Many bridges have bollards just for this kind of thing , it seems to have missed it from the pictures
Trying to disrupt supply lines
Not really. You will have to go arounf but that bridge isnt really important and doesnt effect the main channel
Where in the hell are they supposed to go under that bridge? I don't see a space big enough between any of those piers.
It was a loose barge, not intended to go through there.
They were supposed to hit it from the other direction is what you are saying.
😂😂😂😂
This is the bridge Biden said he rode a train across. Uh huh.
Boats running into bridges is a normal thing now?
Let's see what will be built on that island, and who will buy the land that has been made cheap now to build it on
That water looks so disgusting i would be surprised if anything was alive in that water in the first place...
it is a new trend in action !!!
People making comments on this, saying this is not an accident or this is ridiculous and the company needs to be prosecuted. You need to stop. You clearly have no idea about the marine industry and how easy it is for things to go wrong. The barge was secured by line. Lines stretch and retract. Every time another tow or ship passes by a barge that is moored it pulls the barge away from its moorings. The lines stretch and stop the barge. Well that can only happen so many time before a line breakers free. What needs to happen is boats should be required to stand by with there barges at all times. But understand this was just an accident.
Again?
Oh another accidental barge crash...Nothing to see here folks...Move Along!
seems like not a coincidence
2 barges into 2 bridges? Is this going to happen again?
Can no drive a god damn boat in this country?