Notre Dame Cathedral burning...

[mtngirl79]

Can anyone explain the difference between a gargoyle and a troll?

Along with spewing rain water out of their mouths gargoyles are suppose to look scary enough to frighten evil spirits away.

I think trolls are evil spirits...

[Benny Profane]

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Oh, for fucks sake. Now these fanatics are using burning churches for their scare tactics.

[byates1]

All because a bad hombre went overboard with the lacquer.

terrible loss, wow.

[warthog]

Knowing the crowd here I can't be the only person that immediately thought of the part in The Pillars of the Earth where Jack torches the cathedral when I first heard about this fire.

1st thing I thought of. One of my favorite's.

I am envisioning all the world's greatest architects, masons, wood carvers, etc, working together on this. Maybe it will be something even greater when finished, in many ways.

[babybear]

Probably not insured.. uninsurable.. or unaffordable to?

not even la-lloyds of london?

[SkiBall]

[neufox47]

not even la-lloyds of london?

They can definitely handle something of this size and bigger. They carve up the risk into many shares that each insurer is responsible for. Was anyone willing to pay for a policy for this is another question. Most of the US Catholic churches are insured, the costs for stone work and stained glass get crazy even on small local churches.

[jfost]

Que our resident conspiracy trolls.......

Someone knew last week it was going to go up in flames?

And there you go. Pretty soon, our troll will tell us all.

Scaffolding is steel and still standing.

Ok, I'll give it a shot...
Steel only melts and collapses at the WTC, everywhere else it easily withstands heat.

[wyeaster]

Glenn Beck Is Spouting Insane, Dangerous Bullshit About the Notre Dame Fire

https://splinternews.com/glenn-beck-...out-1834068103

“If this was arson, this is going to be bad,” Beck began, already treading into extremely shaky ground. “If it was arson of any foreign entity, anybody with a grudge.”

Then Beck really got going, throwing out a completely unsubstantiated theory about who might have started a fire that still very well may have been an accident.

“If, and this is a huge if—it might have been started by a cigarette, we don’t know—if this was started by Islamists, I don’t think you’ll find out about it,” Beck said, plowing straight into the conspiracy zone. “I think it would set the entire country on fire. They’ve had killings, they’ve had mass shootings, they’ve had people running people down on the street. The tension is very high.”

[hutash]

I was just there a few days ago, and s till in France (Bordeaux currently and back to Paris in two days.) The people here are just devastated.

I took a bunch of gargoyle pictures as they are my favorite local feature. I commented to my wife as we walked along the outside of Notre Dame how cool it would be to see in a heavy rain, and all the gargoyle sspittiing water. I didn't want to see it spitting water from fire hoses.

[schindlerpiste]

Who new ins. when you have gazillionaires.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/millions-...073401551.html

This may be one of the only things good for the french economy

[KenJongIll]

So someone pledged 300million to help rebuild? Wtf? Would it really take 300 million dollars to rebuild?

[warthog]

So someone pledged 300million to help rebuild? Wtf? Would it really take 300 million dollars to rebuild?

I am seeing modern projects here that are well over 300 mil. in scope. I have several $1 billion projects I have been tracking. I bet the restoration approaches well over $300 million when all is done.

[doebedoe]

So someone pledged 300million to help rebuild? Wtf? Would it really take 300 million dollars to rebuild?

I would guess the total cost is at least 300mil.

[Benny Profane]

Who new ins. when you have gazillionaires.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/millions-...073401551.html

This may be one of the only things good for the french economy

One dude is married to Salma Hayek, too. Wee wee wee.

[Benny Profane]

One wonders how they will replace that entire wooden roof structure. Maybe metal beams?

[The AD]

One dude is married to Salma Hayek, too. Wee wee wee.

Are you peeing or is that how you think "oui" is spelled?

[Benny Profane]

No, really? That's how it's spelled?

[Benny Profane]

This is cool.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...69115766563971

[Viva]

No, really? That's how it's spelled?

Mais wee!

[glademaster]

So someone pledged 300million to help rebuild? Wtf? Would it really take 300 million dollars to rebuild?

Seriously? It's 2019, there are single family homes being built where construction and materials costs run $30+ million. It wouldn't surprise me if a full reconstruction runs over a billion dollars.

[buttahflake]

Oui was the first porn mag I ever saw. Holds a special place in my heart. Classic, found in the woods between the avenues in Scituate. Seeing two hot chicks eating muff, eye opener.

[The AD]

Seriously? It's 2019, there are single family homes being built where construction and materials costs run $30+ million. It wouldn't surprise me if a full reconstruction runs over a billion dollars.

The current renovation (that most likely caused the fire) was something like $6.5 million. I'm surprised they could even erect the scaffolding for that nowadays.

[zion zig zag]

Terrible, that area and the area directly north (le marais?) are my favorite parts of Paris.

I guess the 1160 International Fire Code didn't require a sprinkler system?

[iceman]

ha, yeah I was thinking about medieval code too. Wasn't quite up to snuff apparently.

From the NYTimes:

“These cathedrals and houses of worship are built to burn. If they weren’t houses of worship, they’d be condemned,” said Vincent Dunn, a fire consultant and former New York City fire chief.

Good Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...dame-fire.html

I bet they drop a $bil on the repairs easy. The cathedral in Reims burned in a similar fashion in 1919 and apparently reconstruction is still ongoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims_Cathedral