Small island's only road to mainland closed after barge hits bridge in Texas, causing oil spill
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Officials say a barge hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a small island.
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Boats hitting bridges, planes falling apart, trains derailing, food and meat facilities burning down. The pattern recognition part of my brain is telling me "Nothing to see here, move along".
Deregulation. Thanks Republicans
You guy's ever get tired of going from minor disaster to minor disaster screaming about how each one is proof that the world is about to end, or the country collapse?
My brain is telling me that we have an incompetent transportation secretary who is simply not doing the job he was hired to do. Get rid of him! Replace him with someone who is actually qualified for the job.
I'm with you. It STINKS.
@@slimj091Try to look outside your tiny box.
Can we please go more than 1 month this year without a ship crashing into a bridge?
Texas has these kinds of disasters many times per year
Still waiting for the food processing plant fires to stop
Fire sale
How about 6 months?
nope our countries infrastructure is under attack. Take out bridges and let roads degrade to try and keep people from moving freely.
Umm Again????
I thought... What, again? Come on you guys!!
If they say conspiracy... you'll know it's true... 😳
@@Qthekat1984”conspiracy “ =fact….😬
Can't assume it's on purpose. I remember two planes accidentally hitting the twin towers on the same day 9/11.
@@bl8388 😳😳
Is it normal for boats to be hitting bridges this often? I think I've seen like 3 or 4 boats hitting bridges in the last few months.
Foreign powers going to work on America.....
Yes. It happens pretty frequently.
@@TechnoGeek18023 no no it doesn't. I'm 47 and never seen anything like what is going on. Stupid if you ignore all this.
It's not always a boat hitting a bridge. A gas tanker conveniently crashed and blew up under an overpass on I-95 in Connecticut a couple weeks ago.
@@AvalonDreamzalmost 60 here and I haven’t either but one could say the internet wasn’t always readily available.
why is this hours later and there still isnt a boom out there to hold the oil back?! cmon guys... we pay taxes for a reason!
You'd think that fema, the people who's job it is to respond to emergency situations, would have had some time in their full time jobs working on emergency response plans to plan for possibilities like this...
You're in the USA, you barely pay taxes and you do that for a reason. That means you'll need to deal with the limited emergency and government services you get as a result.
We pay taxes for Ukraine...
@@margaretthatcher6828for zionism
I agree!
A crash just happened. Oil is spilling out. And these announcers are SMILING!?!?
Dirty laundry
Anything to avoid reporting on the known criminal actions of trump.
That's what I thought.
@@AldenRogers... really...?
Pease!🤐@@AldenRogers
Kind of like when all the food storage places started burning down. Four in a row here folks it's not sabotage it's just coincidence???
It could be, but very likely some arse committing arson.
...and yet the CNN crowd would spit 'conspiracy theorists' out like it was a bad taste in their mouths. Oh, okay... In 60 years, I've never seen so many barges magically losing control and destroying key bridges. Nothing to see here though...
Well, why would this be sabotage? I mean outside of a possible insurance scam to get a new bridge built for that island, there is nothing nefarious about this incident. No mass conspiracy to seek to destroy all our bridges. I mean, why would you target a bridge that only goes to a couple small factory buildings and a university campus that just finished up their semester and graduations? Likewise, why would some nefarious power seek to destroy the Francis Scott Key bridge at 3 in the morning instead of during rush hour 5 hours later?
Simple facts like this make me highly doubtful of any grand conspiracy going on because none of the events and facts point to it.
@@bl8388 I agreed but youtube deletes almost every comment I make
🤔
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.’ Goldfinger (1959)
The fourth time is the sequel
Geez Texas, were you feeling left out?
Texas has disasters like this on the reg, its common
@quesadilla79 wrong.. this is rare but with the massive storms and rising waters with record floods it's still worth investigating who's the idiot that let this happen
@@quesadilla79 Genuine question about that. Is it actually happening more than usual? Or are they just showing us the normal stuff that "happens on the reg" more than usual?
Odd the reporters didn't even mention the bridge collapse by barge in Maryland, recently. Not even concern about, "are barge operators being tested for drugs/alcohol or up to date on licenses?" Has anyone been detained for questioning?
Huh
attacking our infrastructure
Yupp white nationalists keep getting caught trying to destroy our infrastructure
Mmmm yup. 😳
You need to adjust your Foil Hat.
Yes they are...
Bingo!
can we stop hitting the bridges?
For real!
Any barge captains out there? Now listen up ladies and gents. I don't know what those bridges did to you all. You're right, if I knew I'd be pissed, too. I get it. But we need you bridges, and you captains, to work this out. Be professional, both sides. (Glares at the bridges. Points menacingly at the captains.)
No more hitting each other. I don't care if the bridge started it.
The Feds might need to reevaluate the maratime industry.
Maybe regulations? It’s in Texas they ain’t having it.
Like everywhere else, people are letting the rules that are in place slide. Those doing so have not been educated on why you should follow rules even if you don't get their purpose. Instead, they were taught that the rules made by a corrupt patriarchy, are just to keep them down.
The Feds are probably in on it.
Honestly most the bridges cannot handle the kind of ships and barges that are now around. Cities have cut funding for re-enforcement of bridge structures, and this is the result. A lot of these bridges need to be replaced they well past their experiation date given what now exists.
The feds are probably behind it.
...don't see any clean-up efforts (Coast Guar or otherwise)! That dark line of floating oil took some time to stretch as far as it has. One would think in such a heavily trafficked shipping area there would already be rapid oil-spill response unit(s) ready/available wouldn't one?
Exactly , plus this happened at about 10 am ---
No major Conference, as they don't want Americans to know !
They keep sending billions of money to other countries but that Criminal administration since January 21,2021
Hasn't done anything for us the American Citizens but , make us pay more for everything !!!
Things will continue to get worse until they are held accountable, just like our border here in Texas , still illegals crossing daily 24/7 ..
It's disgusting!
I kept reading Bridge hit bridge.
Huh
When bridges hit each other thats when things are really getting serious.
heads up somethings going on. Two in two months no way that's an accident!" The barge somehow got away?" If you see something say something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly! I believe we're under attack by foreign entities illegally in our own country.
From targeting our infrastructure to brainwashing college students.
Those in positions of leadership, government etc. know this but are only concerned about themselves, money and staying in power.
Our constitution is written to protect the people from all this. It was written to prevent the government from becoming tyrants.
Meanwhile more IRS agents have been hired and they are all required to be armed!
OK, it's no duffrent then a car hitting something it's going to happend eventually some where. And actually their is on average 2600 bridge strikes a year by boats
China is getting ready to shut america down. I'm glad you can connect the dots @davidkirby9438
Are you on drugs if you see something say something is a phrase put out by the NSA to make everyone parnoid of each other so they believe in the 150 billion dollar a year patriot act scam go outside and get some fresh air and get away from the drugs damn.
@@texascrimestories That's exaggerated (Not you, I mean media). Two recent articles one includes boats losing power hitting nothing but needing a jump, fuel, or tow. They are combining false equivalency stats to make these disasters seem more common.
Okay this is starting to get suspicious as hell. Train derailments and now boats are hitting bridges. Wtf is going on
Too many corporations cutting corners thus cutting manpower which is what makes these kind of operations safer.
communism...
@Joe-no7gs okay that's fair. But boats hitting bridges is not
Years' worth of negligence and capitalism.
@@maybemablemaples2144 ah yes blame capitalism. Cus communism is so much better.
Weren’t Texas waters dirty enough already.
Another bridge, ha? People may still be thinking that we are in peacetime after the destruction of all these bridges.
Just what Galveston needs, more nasty water.
The water is brownish mostly because of silt, whereas crystal clear water doesn’t have silt, just sand. It may not be entirely clean, but it’s not as nasty and polluted as people think just judging by the color.
@@tangyjoe4326 Yea there is plenty of sealife in those waters...crabs, dolphins, pelicans, seagulls, etc. which is why this news would be absolutely devastating to their ecology.
@@johnlime1469 Yes, it’s terrible and sad. Heard on the news tonight they’ve stopped the leak, hopefully cleanup will get going.
More Jumbo fresh shrimp on sale at all the stores this weekend caught from where the oil settles and fully approved by the gangster FDA
@@tangyjoe4326 Yes it is very nasty in 2010 BP had the biggest oil leak in history of the world killed 13 there for months millions of gallons leaked everyday and BP didn't give 2 shts as they walked out of congress in the middle of questioning.
NO MORE BEER ON BOARD !!
It was thar damn country club gin
Except Coors light beer 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺!
And whoever put a bullseye on the pillar needs in school detention. Billy in 6th grade probably.
Done on purpose
Yup 😳😷
Yeah? By whom and for what purpose? Anti-environmentalist right wingers? To make Texas even filthier?
#NotCoincidence
Waiting on a plane to hit a boat or bridge. Seems plausibly escalatory.
? We haven't had any of those. You can't objectively make up a data point then use that made up data point as evidence. =D
Who is piloting these barges???
Sees to me we have been under attack by an enemy for about 4yrs now...
Stormy Daniels!
UA-cam channel: Archaix
...with a genius license?
Why do field reporters always say “as you can see” when there is no need to say that? Better to succinctly describe the area that we are supposed to be seeing.
The oil is insured, the boat is insured and the crew is insured. I’m sick of these insurance scams between states and these barges
Dumbest comment by far !!!! Congrats !!!!
I wonder if you could get coverage on the river?
who touched you? lol boats still leaking, this dude is 10 years down the road in court steaming over a case that has nothing to do with him...
keep drinking pal, its doing wonders!
Lol, you do know that these hapends on average 2500 times a year. I mean thousand beyond thousand of boats go under bridges e ery year. Strike are going to happend. Just like when cars hit something
UA-cam channel: Archaix
The good news in this is no deaths and the rail line dead-ends at the end of the bridge; not used. I do hope they stop the leaking oil and get that cleaned up fast.
Wth is going on
Build back better. 🙄
A boat hit a bridge 😂
The 400 yrs r up that's all.
NOT AN ACCIDENT!!
REALLY? WHY DO YOU SAY THAT AND WHY ARE WE YELLING?
Link with proof?!
@@thesun-N-moon8885 His mom told him
Galveston, Texas?! I blame Charles Barkley
😂😂😂😂😂😂
0 days since an accident in the workplace🤦🏼♂️
If you ever seen how low this bridge was you would be surprised it made it 60 years, we have bridges falling down all over the state. If they were under regular inspections and repair probably minor damage, leave Greg Abbott in charge for decades and old crap just gets ignored so it collapses.
Too many bridges in America are getting hit and damaged..
Umm this is the 2nd if I missed any please let me know…
Test the captain for impairment !!
How the impairment testers are impaired drug sellers
Shame on the company the oil belongs to
We don't know why this happened, yet.
It won't work crescent, Oil companies have no shame.
Again? Hmmm
Texas has disasters like this many times per year
A DEI hire or an attack again?
Can the “news” please do better investigation instead of just accepting this as “the new normal”?
Keep saying that these crashes aren’t a conspiracy, I dare you.
😮...what's going on?
Navigation of a barges is not like a car, take it easy.
Kinda weird that something similar just happened like 6 weeks ago in Baltimore. Are these boats all being driven by some faulty autopilot with the same bug or something?
I worked on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup in 89. So flipping depressing to see all the dead birds and sea life!
No words and then the 2010 Horizon Gulf offshore biggest spill in the history of the world, I used to go to the Islands used to be gorgeous beaches
Again??
1. housing 2. utilities and 3. taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4. are way too high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ships crashing and trains derailing are all deliberate.
We just had the Francis Scott key bridge collaspe
Now we have barge that hits a bridge
3 barges hitting bridges in 3 months. No nothing going on.
Food prices are about to go up for anything from the gulf.
Gulf Shrimp will be on sale all week harvested fresh from the bottom where fresh oil resides and approved by your friendly US FDA, pick yours up today you want em we got em.
What's with barge is all the sudden hitting Bridges now who are they hiring to drive these things
Same thing happened in Fort Madison Iowa a week ago barge breaks loose and hits bridge in Fort Madison Iowa later sinks into River recovery efforts still going on
So this was an accident? 😂
This ship/tug captain MUST be held responsible, no matter what reason, for these incidents.
I guess we didn't learn from the Baltimore bridge incident
Train derailment was a trend for a while. That got boring. Now, it's bridges and boats.
Looks like pelicans aren’t going to Galveston no more
It's a damn oil barge full of friggin oil, but we don't know where it was or how it got there or who it belongs to or who was driving it but damn ....look what happened.
All of these bridge accidents first Baltimore now Galveston 😢
Wait I thought oil transportation was safe now? Every company said so.
It would be safer if you let them run it in pipelines.
@@damiantoth8577 you mean the ones that leak about 200 barrels of oil a day? Those pipelines? No one's stopping them from transporting it in those leaking pipelines.
@@TheHonestPeanut "Leaking pipelines" 🤣🤣🤣
@@damiantoth8577 200 barrels a day. And that's just what we *know* of.
@@TheHonestPeanut You think the oil companies would just let 200 barrels go down the drain everyday and lose all that revenue and instead of fixing them? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I guess in a few months they'll say the electronics went out on this one too
Deregulation...what could go wrong😊
Nothing to see here
These announcers are acting like they are doing the zany news story of the day.
They are like everybody on drugs
So is the water gonna be green or brown now? Oh wait, it's been green/brown for decades from the numerous spills...
Prayers to my fellow Oystermen in Texas from New England 🇺🇸❤️🙏
@Joe-no7gs that may be a bit over the top....but who could really blame you..
Deregulation my friends also known as corporate greed. Oil companies rule. Trump is Mr. “Drill baby drill”
Now it will be shut down. Can’t you see what’s up?
Who the hell is steering these damn boats!! A bridge is pretty hard to "not see". Where is out transportation czar? On vacation yet again.
weird...suddenly the bridges are too short?
How much are these people being paid to crash ships - and the economy? I have never heard of this type of thing - then in less than 2 months, it happens twice? Wow.
You are here on earth by accident, Look it up.
Sorry to hear you think you were an accident. Under your definition, everything is a an accident - including everything you say and do. Was your reply and accident? Pretty sure my parents got married to start a family and have kids, so I am not sure I would consider myself an accident, but here on purpose.
@@dzerweck So you believe some all seeing all knowing war starting fairy in the sky designed everything, Pats dezwik on the head run along to mom now
@@dzerweck You are here by accident otherwise name the designer
What/where is this almighty resource which holds ‘the truth’? Is it you? Are you ‘the science’? So glad to know I finally found some who is knows all. Thank you god!
Relying too much on computrized directions instead of visually seeing the potential/unforeseen dilemmas.
This is by design look at the reporters smiling about it
Ok now after the Baltimore Bridge collision, this has to be intentional!
Ban barges, all watercraft. We need safety. Ridiculous right? Yet that is the logic we use for other things.
Looks like I was right again.
HERE. WE. GO. AGAIN
This happens couple times a year in the Houston Ship Channel.
My gut is telling me all this shyt going on is all by design. 💯
Accident? I think not.
Petey is having a heck of a time.
Poor pelicans. Probably nesting season too. Sue Texas for poor (No) regulations!
What about Baltimore, Connecticut, Ohio river, etc. Winter is their nesting season on the gulf. Somebody should sue you for helping to make pelicans extinct and not doing anything to help. Instead of pretending on a UA-cam comment that you care about pelicans.
2 boats and 2 bridges in less time than it takes a traffic jam to clear during rush hour!
Is this a coincidence 🤔
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Texas praying for all.
This is what happens when you ignore your own infrastructure and send money to other countries.
Bring in and empty barge. Transfer all the fuel oil to raise the draft. Or empty out the damage tanks. Then deal with the real
Prob. The oil spill- Good luck
is this the 4th one since baltimore... seems to be like clock work now in america.
I went to look up that 'event' from last month, when 26 barges somehow came loose from their moorings. Found out that a year ago, 10 barges came away from their tugboat in a 'navigation incident'. I don't see ANY sort of shenanigans going on.
the water...
I think I'm seeing a trend...
Where's pothole Pete? What the hell has he done for the past 3+ years, how many disasters at least 2 by water and 2 by rail. That is an astounding rate.
Shhh... your ignorance is on full display.
@@patbrown53 isn't he transportation secretary or didn't you know that
@ricblic901 What does a barge hitting a bridge have to do with him being the Transpirtatuon Secretary?? He wasn't steering the barge.
@@patbrown53 The Department of Transportation is responsible for the ports and the railroads, your serious aren't you , wow you have no idea.
@ricblic901 The post implied Secretary Buttigeg was responsible for these events occurring, which is ridiculous.
This seems to be a common occurrence lately,... with barges/boats hitting bridges! / critical infrastructure!
WTH is going on?!‽‽
Are they hiring ppl with no experience for their DEI quotas??? 🤔 or is it even worse than that!?
The rail-line was /is not operational and the actual damage to the vehicular causeway is minimal. Oil-spill is minimal and risk to shipping in/out of "Galveston Bay" is minimal. Stop being so "apocalyptic" in your reporting!!!!
Dang!
What the heck???
As if no one saw this coming 🤦♀️
Dammit! Haven't we learned anything since the Baltimore bridge incident?
You'd Think Bootygauge would have Bumpers closer to Columns in by now. 🤔
JUST LIKE THE OTHER, THIS WAS ON PURPOSE
Wind and Solar Don't Spill!
They also won't actually run our economy. The batteries along would wipe out half the planets leftover reserves of lithium. Or something crazy like that. Unfortunately, it's just not enough. Let alone every 15-20 years it would need to ALL be ripped out, windmills, solar panels and batteries and COMPLETELY replaced. No one seems to talk about any of this. Nuclear is definitely the way to go. With a combination of hydro, solar and wind to supplement. But you simply can't run the U.S. economy on wind and solar. It's not realistic. Let alone, it's ignoring the super obvious fact that.... barges would still go down our rivers. They don't only move oil and gas. But ALL major exports from the Midwest end up going down the Mississippi.
LOL just LOL......
Yea and wind and solar don’t generate enough power . Buy and electric car and drive too California and let us know how that works out for you.
Something else they don't do is generate a sufficient amount of electricity.
Gotta love YT deleting/hiding my comment for no reason yet still telling me when there's replies.... like wtf YT?
Just like the plane’s, helicopters, now bridges mmmmm 🤔 Someone pull all the files on the people that work in those jobs