Posted on 10/12/2019 11:32:37 AM PDT by fatima
“It was a steel framed building with metal deck. It wasn’t a concrete framed building.”
you can see collapsed concrete floor slabs hanging down ... if not cured before loading, they’ll collapse ..
Agreed. (See my post #42), And if this had been a ‘Stocking Materials Saturday’ the fact that the man lift car was empty of stockers, (I think/I hope), and only up on about at 3 or 4 when the collapse happened might have saved many 18 to 21 year old kids/cubby lives. Good God I hate to see this. I saw enough back in the day long ago. Prayers up for the injured and now dead.
Typical story here in ca. Contractor here
“New Orleans’ top building inspector among those suspended amid federal corruption probe”
Article from Sep 24 of this year.
https://twitter.com/elnuevodiariord/status/1183065720126689281
video from a streetcar almost underneath the building when it fell.
Interesting. Thank you. Trying not to fall into confirmation bias, but....
https://twitter.com/vitriolicgoy/status/1183480073321615360
Read the tweet. There seems to be more of this as intellectual rigor is abandoned.
“I understand that St. Louis [Cathedral] is now something other than a church?”
Still very much an active parish in every respect, with a heavenly choir, and a full schedule of masses presided over by Archbishop Aymond.
However, the Cathdral is the oldest in North America., built in the early 1700s— it pre-dates the Declaration of Independence!
As such, in ADDITION to a church, it is ALSO an architecturally significant museum. There are regularly scheduled tours for tourists, when masses aren’t going on. So perhaps that’s what you’re referring to.
There’s a beautiful statue of Joan of Arc — NOLA’s patroness. Also a whole bunch of priests buried in the walls & floors.
When John Paul II visited NOLA in 1987, he slept in the Cathedral’s rectory, and held several gatherings for young people & clergy in the Superdome. He celebrated mass for 130,000 in a field near UNO (which the NYT reported was “poorly attended.”)
LOL.
You said you enjoyed Easter Mass there. Me too. The choir is like no other— positively supernatural. Voices of angels!
Though it wasn’t my parish, I often snuck in.
The Sunday evening Mass the week before Christmas features a choir performance that packs in a lot of non-Catholics for the sacred music. Afterwards the crowds spill into Jackson Square for Christmas caroling (one year led by Pavarotti!) then it’s across the street to Cafe Du Monde for beignets!
Also, next time you’re in NOLA, try attending a Sunday mass at St. Augustine’s Church in the Treme neighborhood. The historically black church— founded by freed slaves —features a full Gospel Jazz Mass. They rock the rafters— voices and trumpets!
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