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.
You've never heard of barge shenanigans because it's a non-event unless you have an autistic hyperfixation on shipping. You can see the barges much more clearly in the replies. They're basically the riverine equivalent of trailers. It'll be a bitch for a day or two, and somebody's gonna get a tasty government paycheck wildly overestimating repair costs, but an attack on infrastructure this is not. You'd get better results downing a few trees along the freeway.