The DALI’s crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge reshaped the skyline for the communities south of the bridge.
It also forced them to adapt to a new life cut off from the communities on the other side. “I remember waking up at like 4 a.m. cause I live right there and I could just look out my parents’ bedroom window and the Baltimore skyline’s there and you just see the two ends of the Key Bridge,” said Logan Wisniewski, a server at Stoney Creek Inn, a few miles south of the bridge. The popular local restaurant has seen regulars cut off from the restaurant by the collapse. “We have regulars who don’t live in this direct area who had to come over the bridge. So, we don’t see them as often as we used to,” said Wisniewski. Brianna Trageser started at the Inn a few weeks before the collapse. She was up late that night with her friend when the Dali crashed into the bridge. “The sound is something I won’t forget, that’s for sure,” said Trageser. Over along Curtis Creek at Smith’s Shipyard Kevin Smith was woken up in the middle of the night to phone calls about the collapse. “I just couldn’t believe it and then started seeing the videos come out and just still you couldn’t believe it,” said Smith. His family has owned this shipyard for five generations, since 1905…