Barge hit Pelican Island Causeway, causing portion to fall, officials say

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Published 2024-05-15
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.

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  • Just as many bridges have collapsed as Boeing whistleblowers have died.
  • 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
  • @jessies6502
    "Accidental" went down the road quite some time ago.
  • @DaddyD-og4jp
    All these boats and bridges crashing. I wonder what's going on???
  • @uncleshrek32
    This seems to be the only way to get bridges rebuilt. Watch out bridges!! Here comes a boat!!
  • @rjcarter2904
    This has become ridiculous. The corporation owning the barge should be criminally prosecuted.
  • @user-dy9cf8bt9b
    Just another accident, right? But of course if you have ANY questions, you will be labeled a conspiracy theorist!
  • @45035
    Nobody knows how to do their job anymore.
  • @hustlecrowe9440
    they're not even trying to contain that oil - that river looks filthy anyways.
  • @amyhartman6786
    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?
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