A Sad Day

5 years 1 week ago #640199 by Shadowfixer1
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in engulfed in flame. The fire is out of control and catastrophic.
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5 years 1 week ago #640200 by Nikon Shooter
Sad day for sure, horrible event and consequences.

Thankfully "somehow", it is most probably an accident — there
were works in progress — had it been a crime of some sort …

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 1 week ago #640207 by Steve Zahra
I was just watching this on TV, so sad!!!


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5 years 1 week ago #640231 by Olivia
OMG, that is so horrible 


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5 years 1 week ago #640269 by ThatNikonGuy
So sad, I sympathize for the french people.  A landmark that will be missed. 


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5 years 1 week ago #640353 by Don Granger
Horrible to watch something so historic like this in flames.   French say they will rebuild, which is great, hopefully it's the same.  


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5 years 1 week ago #640355 by Shadowfixer1
Glad I got to see it. They will rebuild it but it won't be the same. The stuff in the small chapels can't be replaced. Duplicated, yes, but not replaced.
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5 years 1 week ago #640370 by Cara Wilkins
Some good news, turns out there is much still intact and the French are already working on fundraising to restore it:  www.yahoo.com/news/caused-notre-dame-cat...-fire-104158368.html


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5 years 1 week ago #640371 by Cara Wilkins

Shadowfixer1 wrote: Glad I got to see it. They will rebuild it but it won't be the same. The stuff in the small chapels can't be replaced. Duplicated, yes, but not replaced.


Not to mention the items that are/were hidden away in there.  


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5 years 1 week ago #640375 by Troponin

Nikon Shooter wrote: Sad day for sure, horrible event and consequences.

Thankfully "somehow", it is most probably an accident — there
were works in progress — had it been a crime of some sort …


Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but something tells me that if it was a crime, they wouldn't tell us. There is a lot of political tension right now and I am quite sure this could be the tipping point. There have been 6+ churches set on fire here in the States not too long ago. "Unrest" isn't the word anymore, like our government keeps using.  


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5 years 1 week ago #640382 by Fess Walker
I just heard that someone already donated $100 million towards the rebuild of it.  


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5 years 1 week ago #640417 by Moe
Wow for $100 million… That should cover the cost of the renovation wouldn’t it?


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5 years 1 week ago - 5 years 1 week ago #640434 by Shadowfixer1

Moe wrote: Wow for $100 million… That should cover the cost of the renovation wouldn’t it?

That is a drop in the bucket for what it will cost to rebuild. The architectural and engineering fees alone will be astronomical. It will take several million just to clean the mess up and clean the stone before they can begin.

It was already undergoing a 170 million restoration when the fire began. Now what will be the cost? Maybe 1 to 2 billion before it's finished?
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5 years 1 week ago #640546 by Chris Briggs

Shadowfixer1 wrote:

Moe wrote: Wow for $100 million… That should cover the cost of the renovation wouldn’t it?

That is a drop in the bucket for what it will cost to rebuild. The architectural and engineering fees alone will be astronomical. It will take several million just to clean the mess up and clean the stone before they can begin.

It was already undergoing a 170 million restoration when the fire began. Now what will be the cost? Maybe 1 to 2 billion before it's finished?



WHAT?  $1 to 2 billion?  Not a chance.  

Pick up a few Pedro's from in front of Home Depot and they'll have that mess cleaned up in a few weeks for under $10,000. 


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5 years 1 week ago - 5 years 1 week ago #640553 by garyrhook

Chris Briggs wrote: Pick up a few Pedro's from in front of Home Depot...


Wow. Did you really just type that?

We don't use apostrophes in plurals.


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