The House of Representatives voted to keep the government afloat until mid-March on Friday evening after GOP infighting brought the country within hours of a lapse in federal funding.

“We were one of the first places to do that, at least that I know of, and within a week or two we had 2,000 orders that kept us afloat.”

Six men, all members of a road crew working on the bridge, were killed in the incident, which left the Dali - still afloat - stuck under huge chunks of shredded metal and concrete.

In my experience, all kinds of cricketers have to modify their games in order to stay afloat in the domestic game, let alone get recognised by England.

The picture painted was one in which private employers are shutting down and only government hiring is keeping the California economy afloat.