Major fire at Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris) (1 Viewer)

"Well, we were all just sort of sitting around - not even thinking about using our flying water tankers. But then we read Donald Trump's tweet and knew we had to act fast! "

devoid of empathy. completely.
 
Gut wrenching news. Went to Europe only once in 2015. I was blown away by the scale of so many architectural features and their age. Glancing at photos you don't get any real feel for the size of these buildings. But if you pick a person near the very front and use that as scale, you see how enormous they are.

As for age, this beautiful church is about 4 times as old as our country. A pic from our trip:

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Can you imagine the price today to rebuild something like that? And the art inside can never be replaced.

My wife said "They can't rebuild it. It's gone. They can only build a replica of it."

I think she's right. And that's part of what is so traumatic for the world here - that implicit knowledge that something like that can never actually be "rebuilt".
 
My wife said "They can't rebuild it. It's gone. They can only build a replica of it."

I think she's right. And that's part of what is so traumatic for the world here - that implicit knowledge that something like that can never actually be "rebuilt".

It is often the case that what is rebuilt is more glorious than what was destroyed. I think it'll be 100 years or more before that time however. It's devastating.
 
My internet goes out for two and a half hours and I come back to this? Ugh, this is terrible news. Even for someone who has never been and only ever seen it in pictures and video, my connection to other Catholics throughout the world makes my heart break for the loss.
 
FWIW, my twitter feed is suggesting that the most priceless relics and art works seem to have been saved.

Some brave souls had to run into that inferno to get that priceless stuff out.

I have only been to the Vatican, & I was thinking there is so much wood in those places, that they would easily burn.
 

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