Ask Jort, or Willow:
Yes! When you find your people you have to just go for it. Great job Willow I hope you like being inside as much as I do https://t.co/mao3LtNhUP
— Jorts (and Jean) (@JortsTheCat) January 28, 2022
Yeah I was a cold outside cat and someone started feeding me after Jean saw me through the window and called their attention to me. We used to talk through the window and I always wanted love and pets. They took me to the vet and then let me come inside, and here we are
— Jorts (and Jean) (@JortsTheCat) January 25, 2022
Or, for that matter, this guy:
President Joe Biden stopped to look at a Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed just hours before his scheduled visit to the city, dramatically underscoring the urgency of his drive to rebuild the United States' creaky infrastructure https://t.co/rqjMFQKIr6 pic.twitter.com/oEnpxD1uN2
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
Analysis: The wide ripple effect of the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh https://t.co/orpX4PvN6p
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 28, 2022
… For years, probably decades, elected officials have been talking about the urgent need to improve our infrastructure. In part, this is simply a function of life cycles: America was a young country that invested heavily in infrastructure, and now we’re an older country, meaning much of the infrastructure is, too. But the failure to pass legislation aimed at improving or overhauling those aging bridges and roads was also just a political failure, a sort of eh-we’ll-get-to-it attitude.
Bridge collapses happen. This one is personal to me because it’s a bridge I know, that I’ve crossed enough times for it to be memorable, that my sister and mother have crossed countless times as well. But it is also a warning about how this understood risk can suddenly become a crisis.
The federal government’s data suggest that bridges in a condition equivalent to or worse than the collapsed one in Pittsburgh are fairly common. A review of the most recent report indicates that more than 7,500 bridges in the 50 states and D.C. are both in poor condition and rated lower or the same on the four main measures of condition, including the bridge deck condition and its supporting structure. Only Iowa has more such bridges than Pennsylvania…
President Biden was already slated to be in Pittsburgh on Friday, to give a speech focused on infrastructure. This bridge collapse offers a useful, if unwelcome, demonstration of the need for the recently passed infrastructure law to be implemented.
What I and probably many people in Pittsburgh will be hoping to hear is when the bridge will be replaced. Not to mention when those 7,500 other bridges in worse condition will be repaired, so that the next bridge that collapses isn’t the one you drive over every day to get where you need to go.
Most of the 10 people evaluated for injuries were first responders checked for exhaustion or because of the cold and snowy weather. a spokesperson for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said. Three people were taken to hospitals and none had critical injuries. https://t.co/vBBQKJEKWe
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 28, 2022
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