Notre Dame burns

[bucket]

It went up like dried out Christmas tree....wonder why they didn't install fire protection years ago....

[SASKFARMER]

1160.

It’s old.

New math1200

[bucket]

The fire protection would have cost less than the rebuild.....because the rebuild will include fire protection and this fire will become a footnote in history....

[TSIPP]

Im betting the religion of peace sparked her up.

[TSIPP]

858 years ago they started building and was finished almost 200 years later, it’s had numerous renovations and additional building over the years, it’s burnt before but not this bad.

[beaverdam]

The Cathedral guards weren't on duty !

https://twitter.com/cubansflex/status/1118005525768130560/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwte rm%5E1118005525768130560&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. smalldeadanimals.com%2F https://twitter.com/cubansflex/status/1118005525768130560/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwte rm%5E1118005525768130560&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. smalldeadanimals.com%2F

[mustardman]

Stayed in Paris when I had just turned 21 , directly across from Norte Dame, amazing architecture and amazing how things were built 800 years ago.

Very sad . Apparently there aren’t trees tall enough in France anymore to replace the wooden beams that burnt

[samhill]

I am tremendously sorry I never got to see Notre Dame. My wife has been there, it is a great and sad loss.

[furrowtickler]

The Cathedral guards weren't on duty !

https://twitter.com/cubansflex/status/1118005525768130560/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwte rm%5E1118005525768130560&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. smalldeadanimals.com%2F https://twitter.com/cubansflex/status/1118005525768130560/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwte rm%5E1118005525768130560&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. smalldeadanimals.com%2F

Anyone else see that short 9 second video by “common sense” , on that twitter page?
Is that a fire fighter??

Interesting is all

[sumdumguy]

SF3, if you love history, goto France, rent a car, load gps at home and order atlas on amazon before you go. The countryside has elevators, orchards, pastures, small cities all have churches from 12 & 13 hundreds with the floor treads worn down 3 inches from constant foot traffic. In a church near Lyon from back then, the walls are covered with crosses with each family name and date - what a great idea. Wander around France down to the south of the country. I think France is less than 1000 miles north to south. Toll booths charging up to 19 Euro on the inter states so it costs a few euro to get from Paris to Monte Carlo and Italy, but really worth it. Around Dublin too, really fun coutryside. Kinda makes our open prairies quite mundane, but oh well.

[sumdumguy]

Guess what- we only got power in 1959 at Bechard.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

SF3, if you love history, goto France, rent a car, load gps at home and order atlas on amazon before you go. The countryside has elevators, orchards, pastures, small cities all have churches from 12 & 13 hundreds with the floor treads worn down 3 inches from constant foot traffic. In a church near Lyon from back then, the walls are covered with crosses with each family name and date - what a great idea. Wander around France down to the south of the country. I think France is less than 1000 miles north to south. Toll booths charging up to 19 Euro on the inter states so it costs a few euro to get from Paris to Monte Carlo and Italy, but really worth it. Around Dublin too, really fun coutryside. Kinda makes our open prairies quite mundane, but oh well.

And after doing that and seeing the sights and scenes, history and architecture, You'll never have any desire to go sit on a beach in a country with none of the above again.
When we made a round-trip of France , Tried to spend as many miles on back roads as we did tollroads , It might take three times longer but the scenery is well worth it.

Regrettably, we didn't actually go in Notre Dame. Saw it from the outside and The lineup to get in, and went elsewhere.