CoastalWx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Seriously I offer my oaks as a good gesture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Have any of these. One of the most spectacular buildings I have ever been able to step foot in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I assume everything about this structure has been documented precisely and can be rebuilt/recreated. Very sad to see especially the glass work. The history of these grand European cathedrals is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I’m Amazed it lasted almost 800 years to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 it's toast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Breezy here with a few light downpours heading in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom12309 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 The picture I saw looked like there was staging up so maybe they were working on something and it went terribly wrong. What a loss for everyone but I feel so bad for the people for who it was their church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Sending thoughts and prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Just now, Tom12309 said: The picture I saw looked like there was staging up so maybe they were working on something and it went terribly wrong. What a loss for everyone but I feel so bad for the people for who it was their church. There is/was renovation work ongoing. Current speculation is that perhaps the renovation work caused the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I feel nothing. God is purging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 19 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said: I feel nothing. God is purging. Just getting started hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 just read a tweet that Tim Kelley retweeted which makes it weather related...I may have been premature in my comment regarding rebuild..."The roof structure, original, all wood, whose construction is still not fully understood by modern scientists, is itself a priceless monument." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 20 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said: There is/was renovation work ongoing. Current speculation is that perhaps the renovation work caused the fire. Nah, they'll blame the yellow vest protesters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 ,the stained glass isn’t reproducible. The art of creating those has been lost for hundreds of years. Terrible loss. My daughter is beyond devastated. It was her dream to visit it someday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 just think ... in a million years, there will be no trace that Humanity ever existed, as the peregrinations of all reducing factors in a universe intrinsically fated to finality ... will have long since reduced it to ashes too - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Seems like renovations may have been a cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Epic rainbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Getting quite windy all of a sudden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, Sn0waddict said: Getting quite windy all of a sudden. FROPA...should be pretty breezy tomorrow with good mixing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterfish55 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand.It's mind boggling. What is wrong with some people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 22 minutes ago, butterfish55 said: 30 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand. It's mind boggling. What is wrong with some people? Many people have lost their appreciation for things in life. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said: just think ... in a million years, there will be no trace that Humanity ever existed, as the peregrinations of all reducing factors in a universe intrinsically fated to finality ... will have long since reduced it to ashes too - When the sun dies there will be no earth left either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said: Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand. Centuries of extraordinary sustained human endeavor erased today. Imagine the kind of unity of purpose it takes to plan a project spanning centuries. Generations lived, labored and died without the satisfaction of seeing it even close to complete. How many hundreds of skilled craftsmen willingly gave their lives to build it? Is there any project comparable today? The LHC is probably the most ambitious I can think of and that was done in a few decades. Think of how many wars, rebellions, conflagrations and other close scrapes it survived. Truly a major loss to our common heritage. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 The building is mostly stone. It sounds like they also were able to save several glass windows. It wasn’t s total loss from what I gather. The roof and steeple obviously are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 20 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: The building is mostly stone. It sounds like they also were able to save several glass windows. It wasn’t s total loss from what I gather. The roof and steeple obviously are gone. Early reports... someone had a wee bit too much wine during that 3.5 hour lunch they get .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand. The movie "Spotlight" was about my high school. One of my high school friends and I used to always joke about some of the priests and teachers we thought were pedos. Turns out we were absolutely right. And yeah, wasn't just clergy involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Rain has changed to wet snow here at home. Nice to see frozen in the flood lights out back. Never know when it's the last for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Geez on with the jaded remarks about perhaps the most beautiful building in the world burning down. Perhaps old favorite alter boys of Father In . If so totally understand. My feelings/views have been entirely non-secular. This Cathedral is an Architectural marvel and masterpiece. I despise the Roman Catholic Church for what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 7 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: The movie "Spotlight" was about my high school. One of my high school friends and I used to always joke about some of the priests and teachers we thought were pedos. Turns out we were absolutely right. And yeah, wasn't just clergy involved. It was (and continues to be) a truly evil and sick blotch on the church. I am very conflicted as a practicing Catholic (well, somewhat practicing). Turns my stomach and enrages me. I am very sorry that it affected you. I can not deny the beauty of the building that burned though. That is a great loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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