Got a news text that there was a fire. Figured it was small and contained....wow. When I turned on the TV.
Crazy
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Got a news text that there was a fire. Figured it was small and contained....wow. When I turned on the TV.
Crazy
Did the yellow vest protestors torch it?
Doubt that...but who knows.
Main spire collapsed.
My first time to Paris, was staying in the burbs. Took the metro to the Notre Dame stop. So it was literally the first sight I saw of Paris. Was much more impressive than I had imagined.
Que our resident conspiracy trolls.......
GOD IS MAD
Pick your own reason why, and go with that.
Horrifying. So much history going up in smoke. Looks like only the stone will be left.
There’s freaking firefighters up there...on the structure
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i went to go look at how many times it's been rebuilt and someone already updated the wiki
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awful loss, huge cultural, historical icon
but i expect it will get rebuilt faithfully to the design
Sounds like the museum has been spared so far.
This is kinda disheartening
https://twitter.com/damienrieu/statu...531479552?s=21
Well, 700 years is a pretty good run...
I recommend they just raze whatever is left and put in short term rentals on the site :fmicon:
All the statues were removed 3 days ago.
With all of the staging it's likely some dumbass set it on fire torching part of the roof system.
And there you go. Pretty soon, our troll will tell us all.
$6.8m renovation was ongoing
"The cathedral is constructed primarily of limestone — a flammable stone — and has a roof made from wood. "
Limestone is flammable?