Officials fired water at the Third Avenue Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, to cool it down.

Third Avenue Bridge, which connects New York’s the Bronx to Manhattan, got stuck in an open position due to the high heat on Monday.

FDNY officers arrived in boats and fired water at the structure to try and cool down the metal, which expanded after high temperatures in the city, officials say.

The incident caused major traffic delays during one of the hottest days of the year in New York but reopened on the same day.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    1358·
    5 months ago

    Okay… so… Republicans… I know you’re not big on science, but the Earth is not supposed to get so hot that metal expands to the point that we can’t move a metal bridge that’s reliably moved for a very long time.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        72·
        5 months ago

        The bridge is warming up from too much wokeness eminating from the city!!!

      • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
        41·
        5 months ago

        Lol you should never follow up poor NY leadership with /s regardless of the party in power. Them not thinking they needed to include extended magazines in the SAFE Act because they thought magazines were disposable and would phase themselves out as long as they couldn’t be sold, and the entire fucking legalization of recreational marijuana shit show should be more than enough to remove the /s and that’s all without including anything that shit for brains cuomo did lol

    • waz@lemmy.world
      61·
      5 months ago

      the Earth is not supposed to

      I don’t think we get to say what the earth is “supposed to” do.

      For most of the earths existence it wouldn’t be possible for humans to exist. I don’t think it really gives a shit about a bridge we built.

        • waz@lemmy.world
          82·
          5 months ago

          Changing topics. Good strategy.

          Not even a little bit. I fully believe humans are causing climate change. It is going to make life as we know it on this planet completely different in the very near future.

          I still think the planet itself doesn’t give a shit, and claiming there is a way it is “supposed to be” is pretty narrow minded.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            35·
            5 months ago

            Changing topics? The comment you replied to was literally about humans causing climate change.

            So no, I wasn’t changing topics.

            But you’re right, the planet is a big ball of iron and doesn’t give a shit. I was using what we call on this iron ball “figurative language” in order to explain why this is bad for our species.

            Here is a resource to help you with this concept we Earth humans came up with thousands of years ago: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/writing-101-what-is-figurative-language-learn-about-10-types-of-figurative-language-with-examples

            • waz@lemmy.world
              43·
              5 months ago

              I think we agree on most of the points here, and now we’re just getting defensive about tone, and details.

              I was just trying to point out that nothing has a way it is supposed to be. There is what things are, and there is what we want. Yes you can use many of the features of our language to convince people of your opinion.

              I myself don’t like the idea of personifying the planet then imbuing it with opinions so I made the comment I did.