Notre Dame Cathedral (800-years Old)

[Barry Donovan]

I was not trying to be funny to say..
looks like the 900 year old irish pub outlasted the church.
but the little smily emojis emerge anyway
like devils



I have shared the dna stuff.. my name seems to be dead for my immediate family.
it was very big on irish catholic.. the tough guys.

we fight too much I guess.
I saw ancestry dna linked some fabled irish love story by chance to my gene pool.
that is how i know I am my name.

Rebuild again, with this world attention.. I bet the muslims donate too.\
very sad near easter.
I do not worship in a normal way, I am a veteran of bad things.
not sure if I'd drop sooner to do so.

maybe the church is a result of us after all.

[Deaf Bob]

Pretty sad such a building is aflame..

[studemax]

A great tragedy on many levels.

[cstmwgn]

Not the least of which is Quasimodo will be homeless now.

[Barry Donovan]

looking for sorcery and witch craft at the cause...

the B-52 first flew on this date in 1952.

My mom died on easter sunday.. but the date was april 19th.

I am glad to be whatever religion I am today...
painful to learn history of Monseigneurs and priests and 100s of years with my name riddled all through it

I hope they build even bigger, it is a world heritage site

[RockJustRock]

Somebody important implied they should have responded faster and used forest fire air support. At least he didn't blame them for not raking their leaves. ;)

[SuperBuickGuy]

Somebody important implied they should have responded faster and used forest fire air support. At least he didn't blame them for not raking their leaves. ;)

who the hell works on a project of that historical significance without fire mitigation on site?

this makes me quite sad, I'll load my personal pictures of Notre Dame.... it made a huge impression on my life when I went there as a college student.

[67 Malibu]

Somebody important implied they should have responded faster and used forest fire air support. At least he didn't blame them for not raking their leaves. ;)

Could have been reflexive defensive since he gets blamed for everything.

[Deaf Bob]

Shitz. They put ladders up and went half way to the fire
There was a water tank for fire fighting but it was drained to be worked around..

Very hard to follow some captions... So my info is likely skewered

I'm most disapointed about the art work and stained glass work being destroyed
As well as it beibg 900 yrs old
The statues were removed to be cleaned..

[SuperBuickGuy]

let's frame something that most Americans don't know. Most of those cathedrals (Notre Dame included) are a stone structure with a wood roof and leaded sheet metal panels on top. While it did destroy the roof and such, the structure is still eminently rebuildable because the structure you see from the inside is all stone (mostly granite). I'll find and scan some pictures... but there is a huge attic space between what burned and the building.

In fact, the original movie of the Hunchback (which we got to watch in France as illustration of 1800s France) shows Quasimodo hiding in that attic area.

that said, this still makes me very sad because it's very structure invokes worship.... St Peters is gaudy (my opinion with NO offense intended) but Notre Dame was the working-class church. They built on it for 1200 years - Fmr. President Obama said to the French that it can be rebuilt, but that's such an American view (not politics), the structure is the soul - a new structure is not the same.... folks here on BS get it, a new car is nice but an old car has soul. Notre Dame has soul, they will repair the damage, but thankfully they don't have to replace it with new.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Pictures inside, after the fire

[SuperBuickGuy]

More pictures here

https://abc7news.com/5251592/

there is much good news in this:
first, the church struggled to raise 6 million to fix the roof - they're raised 300 million to rebuild.
second, because they were fixing the roof, the 9 meter (27 foot) statues on the roof were not there and thus are safe
third, there was a fire plan in place and so the irreplaceable items inside were largely removed and stored in a safe place
fourth, it appears the pipe organ is both intact and perhaps wasn't damaged - they don't know because wood pipes and water are not a good combo - but that said, one report has they were protected from water as part of the fire plan
and finally, it's a stone structure and outside of where the steeple fell through the lower ceiling, appears undamaged.

[Barry Donovan]

More pictures here

https://abc7news.com/5251592/

there is much good news in this:
first, the church struggled to raise 6 million to fix the roof - they're raised 300 million to rebuild.
second, because they were fixing the roof, the 9 meter (27 foot) statues on the roof were not there and thus are safe
third, there was a fire plan in place and so the irreplaceable items inside were largely removed and stored in a safe place
fourth, it appears the pipe organ is both intact and perhaps wasn't damaged - they don't know because wood pipes and water are not a good combo - but that said, one report has they were protected from water as part of the fire plan
and finally, it's a stone structure and outside of where the steeple fell through the lower ceiling, appears undamaged.

you know original build was a world wonder for its time.. remained there

I wonder what today can build. they got CAD and different materials.

I was rambling about zinc making its own volt, especially in big sun
hard telling, but I think the scaffolding iron was part of the catalyst.

[SuperBuickGuy]

you know original build was a world wonder for its time.. remained there

I wonder what today can build. they got CAD and different materials.

I was rambling about zinc making its own volt, especially in big sun
hard telling, but I think the scaffolding iron was part of the catalyst.

I think they were melting the lead off and forgot there was wood under the metal.... 1000 year old, dry wood. I remember being up in that space thinking how dry it was.

[Monster]

I imagine that cathedral fires are not uncommon and many have been rebuilt throughout the centuries.