My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

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  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    6 months ago

    If you watch the video, that's basically what happened

    The ship loses power as it's making a turn into the channel to go between the pillars. By the time they get power restored - less than a minute later, I believe - the ship is drifting straight toward the pillar. These things take time to turn and get on a new course even at slow speed, so even if they went full reverse or full turn, it was too late

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Oh so this was a "when" question not an "if" question