Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday. Shipās pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge. Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatchā¦ ā>
2/ Police dispatched with just a few crisp phrasesāship has lost steering, close the bridge to trafficāand race to do just that. No time for confusion. No time for ā¦ āWhat do you mean, close the bridge? Who says?ā 4 minutes, alert to collapse. Bridge successfully closedā¦ ā>
3/ Thatās amazing. Again, a system workedāa government system. All those people just ordinary frontline workers in anonymous, sometimes invisible jobs. Maritime radio operators. Police/fire dispatchers. Bridge police & state police. All working 11p to 7a oānight shift. ā>
4/ Cool, direct, urgent, successful. Maybe not a college degree or a 6-figure salary among themāand they used their training & experience at the most critical, high-pressure moment to save lives. All day, every dayāthat happens & we donāt see it. Thatās your ādeep state.ā ā>
@cfishman Man if itād been a couple hours later - thatās when response times for overnight start to get slower cause itās just hard to be awake then - did overnight weekend ops for 3 years - Monday morning is always hardest
@cfishman Yeah, the government system sure worked brilliantly. It's like bragging about the construction of the Titanic because you can still find pieces of it on the ocean floor 100 years later.
@cfishman At my work, swing shift makes things happen. šš½