True that.
Right! 
True that.
Posted on 12/25/2019 8:24:49 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50% chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.
Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn’t likely to begin until 2021 — and described his “heartache” that Notre Dame couldn’t hold Christmas services this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.
“Today it is not out of danger,” he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of Christmas Eve midnight Mass in a nearby church. “It will be out of danger when we take out the remaining scaffolding.”
“Today we can say that there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also 50% chance of scaffolding falling onto the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very fragile,” he said.
The 12th-century cathedral was under renovation at the time of the accidental April fire, which destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire. With no more roof to keep the massive stone structure stable, the cathedral’s surviving vaults are crucial to keeping it standing, but they are vulnerable.
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Everybody knows it was an arson fire set by Muslims. I read and understand spoken French and the comments afterwards all reflected this.
The churches are owned by the French government and many of the employees are Muslim. What’s not to love?
Everybody knows it was an arson fire set by Muslims. I read and understand spoken French and the comments afterwards all reflected this.
The churches are owned by the French government and many of the employees are Muslim. What’s not to love?
“If need be, a sub-structure can be built so that older parts are preserved but not used for support. It may turn the cathedral into a museum (even under glass is that is required) which houses a giant relic, but isn’t it already just a giant relic.”
That post couldn’t sound any more defeatist than it does. Maybe you could post advise to us on how to drink poison Kool-Aid during the end times.
And if they ever need extermination camps, they can outsource that to them, too.
“Given the profound stupidity of a government that is all in on the global warming hoax, it would be a miracle if it ever gets done.”
On the contrary, they’ll use green building materials and green construction techniques.
And BTW, the word "relic" isn't a derogatory term. It means "an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest."
In case you didn't know, the construction on the Cathedral was started in 1163. That makes it a relic.
It will be razed and a mosque built in its place.
Yeah, but they would not want to honor Gods mother. In their minds love is a private good, the more you give one person the less another receives.
I see what you did there.
Right! Ah, but when the German Protestants finished the job, they wouldn't want to leave.
He rebuilt a tall building that was having problems and the people who used to work there said it was so bad before he rebuilt it that they would come into work in the morning and find a new shaft of light on their desk that wasn’t there the day before.
The walls of the building were actually separating.
Now it is Trump International Hotel and Tower, not the most famous Trump Tower but the one at the Circle.
Lefty neighbors insisted that the word “Tower” be taken off the facade of the building. Can you imagine that? As if it would somehow diminish the president if you took that word away.
They also insisted on a bike lane on the east-facing side of the building, and then when other neighbors complained that the bike lane would eliminate parking spots, they instituted diagonal parking out into the avenue, on the street side of the bike lane, so now when there is heavy traffic it takes much longer to get from 59th to 66th. The route of the 20 bus, so that in turn slows down the entire bus system.
Pardon me for ranting, but I hate Trump-haters.
They no longer have trees as big as the ones what were used for the roof. I don’t know if steel or something else could be used.
If they hire Trump to redo it, I don’t think anything could stop him.
Lightning struck the bookstore at Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal cathedral in NYC, in the very section of the store where all the apostasy was shelved.
There was a smaller fire set as a decoy.
I watched many videos about this from real experts.
Re: Would be fun to ponder how far along the restoration would be if Trump was doing it.
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Near Completed
Well said... from a German Protestant!
Cheers!
There ya go, God will punish them.
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