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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I think they usually build artificial islands around bridge columns so ships will run aground before hitting the column itself.
They do if they're required by law to, otherwise way waste the money on things like preventative safety measures.
the dont have to tho .. its a free country !
Yeah, they're called dolphins They can be seen in the video near power pylons. However none were deemed necessary to protect the bridge itself apparently.