Checked the timestamps myself after reading this and yeah, they really don't line up. That said, I'm not sure this is the big deal people are making it out to be. A rescue group posting a sloppy apology and then deleting it sounds more like panic than some plot. People pile on because it feels good, not because they checked anything. The real lesson here is that we all jumped on a bandwagon over screenshots nobody verified, which happens about every other week online.

A buddy of mine ran a cheap cross line on a 30 foot fence line and the beam was fine up close but got fuzzy and wide at the far end. He ended up splitting it, setting a mark at 15 feet and re-leveling off that, which kept everything true. For a deck span that long I'd do the same thing, just break it into two passes so drift never stacks up.