▲ 502 ▼ Video: Baltimore bridge struck by boat and collapses (streamable.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Breezy@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 92 comments fedilink hide all child comments Here is a link to another post with an article. https://lemmy.world/post/13553444
[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) no, this is you speaking my language. we do 'risk assessments' and yeah I guess it's a case of severity*likelihood, where risk is never zero. but, no matter what, when the risks 'line up' into a failure mode, holy shit is that failure catastrophic. crazy terrible regardless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I don't know what the likelihood of this would be, but it's definitely miniscule. I suspect you'd still need safeguards to reduce the risk to an acceptable level, but I'm not sure what exactly you can do once a boat has failed and is going to make imminent impact. At that point all you can do is mitigate the fatalities and evacuate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I don't know what the likelihood of this would be, but it's definitely miniscule. I suspect you'd still need safeguards to reduce the risk to an acceptable level, but I'm not sure what exactly you can do once a boat has failed and is going to make imminent impact. At that point all you can do is mitigate the fatalities and evacuate. permalink fedilink source parent