Stuck Ship
5 min readMar 29, 2021
Forrest Gump said it best: shit happens. Always has, always will.
On March 23, the Ever Given, a container ship the size of the Empire State Building, ran aground in the Suez Canal. The initial take is that strong winds and poor visibility caused the snafu. While a boon for meme creators and amateur web developers, the incident is no laughing matter.