Bridges closed after 26 barges break loose in Ohio
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I get the skepticism, but Pittsburgh received an extreme amount of rain and flooding the day before. A rapidly rising river creates more stress than the ties binding the barges can handle. There's a good chance that this really happened as reported rather than sabotage or DIE incompetency.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding? How common is it for multiple barges to come loose during flooding? I've never heard of this happening, and flooding isn't an uncommon occurrence. It's always happening somewhere.
It happens occasionally in Pittsburgh. The Liberty Bridge (one of the major bridges in the area) got hit by barges in 2012 and 2019, and nobody lost their shit over it back then. The flooding is the worst it has been in years--comparable to Hurricane Ivan in 2004--so this isn't a "routine" flood, either.