Breaking news - Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on fire

[MNLonghornFUKM 8822]

4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This image is surreal.  Sorry if already posted:

geez..i didnt think the Eiffel tower was that big 

[BlueGreySky 1032]

5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This image is surreal.  Sorry if already posted:

The tower is close to 4 miles away from Notre Dame.   That seems shopped.

[Updawg 2286]

The tower is close to 4 miles away from Notre Dame.   That seems shopped.

Yeah. That can't be right

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2 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

geez..i didnt think the Eiffel tower was that big 

Had to look it up. ~1000 feet tall. Empire State Bldg is 1400 to the very top.

[BlueGreySky 1032]

1 minute ago, Updawg said:

3 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

The tower is close to 4 miles away from Notre Dame.   That seems shopped.

Yeah. That can't be right

It's not.  There are many photos from the parapets at ND looking out (usually with a gargoyle) at how far away the tower is.  Looking for one now.

[BlueGreySky 1032]

[InkaUtexas 26118]

2 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today.

[wood 11268]

1 hour ago, thestud said:

Damned Parisian Bomberos did a bangup job. Those boys deserve a raise or at least a nice snail dinner. Not to disparage the surly masses but very few here will ever understand or comprehend the amount of work and mental strategery that had to take place to achieve today’s outcome. The French deserve a lot of shit for a lot of things, but today they deserve a helluva commendation.

Yep. Lotta hard work & strategery. Nice job!

[rpspeed 1400]

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a tweet that historically significant artifacts and sacred items were saved from the fire.

"Thanks to the @PompiersParis, the police and the municipal agents," Hidalgo tweeted, "the Crown of Thorns, the Tunic of Saint Louis and several other major works are now in a safe place."

[BlueGreySky 1032]

2 minutes ago, wood said:

Yep. Lotta hard work & strategery. Nice job!

While the whole story is tragic, there are going to be some motherfucking tales of heroism with these boys and what they did today. Look forward to hearing them.

[pantone159 719]

It could be (probably is) a very zoomed in image from far away. The relative height of each building in the image would be proportional to its height. With Notre Dame spire at 300 ft, the Eiffel at 1000 ft, about 3x as tall, and the Eiffel looks about 3x as tall in that pic.

 

[mycox 582]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If they try to rebuild it the way it was, I wonder how much of the techniques have been lost over the centuries as different tools, materials, and techniques were developed. 

They don't know how to duplicate all of the stained glass 

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Thank you to the @PompiersParis policemen and the municipal agents who have made this evening a tremendous human chain to save the works of #NotreDame. The Crown of thorns, the tunic of Saint Louis and several other major works are now in a safe place.

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[wood 11268]

1 minute ago, BlueGreySky said:

While the whole story is tragic, there are going to be some motherfucking tales of heroism with these boys and what they did today. Look forward to hearing them.

I'm all outta rep, or I'd be repping this and a whole lot of other posts in here. Good stuff.

[wood 11268]

I gotta say those photos don't seem quite right to me either, but that could simply down to optical illusions, depth perception issues or compression you can get in some photos, making it look like some areas were very close to the fire when maybe they really weren't. I certainly expected more smoke damage...

 

ETA: Like pantone said just above...this is what I was thinking of too, but in relation to the interior pics, not the Eiffel shot..

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It could be (probably is) a very zoomed in image from far away. The relative height of each building in the image would be proportional to its height. With Notre Dame spire at 300 ft, the Eiffel at 1000 ft, about 3x as tall, and the Eiffel looks about 3x as tall in that pic.

 

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7 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

It could be (probably is) a very zoomed in image from far away. The relative height of each building in the image would be proportional to its height. With Notre Dame spire at 300 ft, the Eiffel at 1000 ft, about 3x as tall, and the Eiffel looks about 3x as tall in that pic.

Hard to tell. It definitely looks a lot closer in that one pic.

Here are some more nice pics of Paris    https://www.instagram.com/ag_photographe/?hl=en

Looks really close in this one too. I assume that's Notre Dame (I have not been there)

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[BlueGreySky 1032]

I watch CNN once every 4 years just for shits and giggles.  Tonight, it's the only channel on appletv coving this that I can find.  And the anchor covering it is doing a bang-up job.  I'm pleasantly surprised.  It's good.  Real good.

[PittsburghTiger 6197]

A good friend of mine just arrived in Paris today and she said they could see the fire from their hotel. She has not yet sent any pictures.

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

19 minutes ago, retread said:

Had to look it up. ~1000 feet tall. Empire State Bldg is 1400 to the very top.

So if you put the Eiffel Tower on top of the Empire State Building, then put the UT main building on top of THAT, you get the burj kalifa. 

Tall edifice talk going away now 

[wood 11268]

4 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

I watch CNN once every 4 years just for shits and giggles.  Tonight, it's the only channel on appletv coving this that I can find.  And the anchor covering it is doing a bang-up job.  I'm pleasantly surprised.  It's good.  Real good.

Glad it got better. Earlier today it was silly.

[Wally Fairway 5587]

8 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

A good friend of mine just arrived in Paris today and she said they could see the fire from their hotel. She has not yet sent any pictures.

We're talking about pictures of her, right?

Because there are plenty of pictures of the Notre Dame inferno....so we are waiting

[BlueGreySky 1032]

11 minutes ago, wood said:

Glad it got better. Earlier today it was silly.

The anchor that was doing it is now off and I'm switching channels.  He was a Catholic and was speaking from the heart.  For that hour it was the only topic they covered. 

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Chris Cuomo probably.

[phdhorn 6224]

[Okie State 3848]

The anchor that was doing it is now off and I'm switching channels.  He was a Catholic and was speaking from the heart.  For that hour it was the only topic they covered. 

Was about to say, I flipped it over there and it was typical Trump bullshit.

[Hate 20146]

20 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

A good friend of mine just arrived in Paris today and she said they could see the fire from their hotel. She has not yet sent any pictures.

Pics of friend doing Eiffel Tower?

[Bobson Dugnutt 0]

I hope they remake it, but this time do it a lot quicker.  Maybe add a retractable roof, just no astroturf.

[Updawg 2286]

The anchor that was doing it is now off and I'm switching channels.  He was a Catholic and was speaking from the heart.  For that hour it was the only topic they covered. 

Yeah he did good. I switched to BBC after he went off. Now flipping between that and hockey

[AggieFactFinder 31]

50 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

A good friend of mine just arrived in Paris today and she said they could see the fire from their hotel. She has not yet sent any pictures.

thanks for the update.  We are on pins and needles for your friend's unsent photos.  

[Hank Scorpio 17731]

3 hours ago, Whiskyteer said:

Wifey and I were at the Cathedral around noon today.   We heard first responders speeding by our hotel around 7:15 this afternoon.  By 7:30, we could see the flames through the thick smoke.  So sad for the people of Paris and for the Church.  There were hundred thousand folks lining both banks shocked and distraught.  So sad

So for the last 2,000+ years (the cathedral was built to celebrate Jesus’ first birthday) there haven’t been any problems at all, then, all of the sudden, you and that wife of yours show up and bam, the whole fucking place is in flames. 

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[Pato del Muerto 52608]

3 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

So for the last 2,000+ years (the cathedral was built to celebrate Jesus’ first birthday) there haven’t been any problems at all, then, all of the sudden, you and that wife of yours show up and bam, the whole fucking place is in flames. 

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Parisians knee who Jesus was by his first birthday?

[SHOOTER12 8829]

2 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

Priceless works of art and historical artifacts destroyed, but some $10 candles survived ... IT'S A MIRACLE! 

Why you anti-Festivusite.

[mycox 582]

28 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

So for the last 2,000+ years (the cathedral was built to celebrate Jesus’ first birthday) there haven’t been any problems at all, then, all of the sudden, you and that wife of yours show up and bam, the whole fucking place is in flames. 

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Probably because he uses the term wifey

[FondrenRoad 4378]

1 hour ago, retread said:

Hard to tell. It definitely looks a lot closer in that one pic.

Here are some more nice pics of Paris    https://www.instagram.com/ag_photographe/?hl=en

Looks really close in this one too. I assume that's Notre Dame (I have not been there)

That one is fake too.  The moon is the size of Jupiter in that one.

[Trey3216 15357]

2 hours ago, Updawg said:

I wonder how bad traffic screwed them. It started around 6:45 so that's got to be a terrible time.
Only bright side is the core looks ok and it can be renovated to better tech

Also. Sounds like they saved some art. I'm sure a ton was lost but hopefully they got some out.

Our technology may be better, but our building techniques are not necessarily better by any stretch.  There’s a reason it’s still standing and many of our buildings from the past 100 years are not.  

[Updawg 2286]

Our technology may be better, but our building techniques are not necessarily better by any stretch.  There’s a reason it’s still standing and many of our buildings from the past 100 years are not.  

Absolutely. But now they can put in safety system s.

It sucks losing the history of that roof.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19145]

I put this in my travel thread, but I thought I would share a few of my favorite photo memories of Our Lady.  May the rebuilding not take 200 years.

https://www.mlleshetravels.com/single-post/2019/04/15/Remembering-Notre-Dame

[atomheartbevo 89807]

1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

Our technology may be better, but our building techniques are not necessarily better by any stretch.  There’s a reason it’s still standing and many of our buildings from the past 100 years are not.  

Romans built roads still in use after 2,000 years.   

TxDOT can’t build a stretch of 35 between Austin and Dallas that’s good for more than 2 years.  

[Updawg 2286]

Romans built roads still in use after 2,000 years.   
TxDOT can’t build a stretch of 35 between Austin and Dallas that’s good for more than 2 years.  

Aggy. No need to say more

[Bama Chick 28596]

What wonderful news!

[Fudge Nuggets 19225]

7 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

We heard first responders speeding by our hotel around 7:15 this afternoon.

7:15 is not in the afternoon.

[Trey3216 15357]

Well, the families of the Gucci and Louis Vuitton fashion empires have pledged a combined of $340mm to help with the reconstruction.   

 

Thats pretty damn badass 

[Spankytoes 1743]

8 hours ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

I hope they remake it, but this time do it a lot quicker.  Maybe add a retractable roof, just no astroturf.

First addition is an escalator. That staircase to the top is brutal on the hips and knees.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

26 minutes ago, Spankytoes said:

First addition is an escalator. That staircase to the top is brutal on the hips and knees.

With a Starbucks ......

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4977]

7 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

Our technology may be better, but our building techniques are not necessarily better by any stretch.  There’s a reason it’s still standing and many of our buildings from the past 100 years are not.  

Our building techniques commonpy used are not designed to withstand 800 years. That doesn't mean we aren't perfectly capable of engineering something designed to last 2000 years that looks the same. Our biggest setback would be lack of old growth timber with clean straigh wood.

[Armybrat 40915]

Selma Hayak’s billionaire husband has pledged 100 million towards the rebuild. Dunno if that’s Euros, Dollars, or Bitcoin.

[Armybrat 40915]

Dp..

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[Armybrat 40915]

Tp..

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[El Diablo 4232]

Hopefully good fire investigators will go to Paris, looking for answers to questions that bother them so.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19145]

Well, the families of the Gucci and Louis Vuitton fashion empires have pledged a combined of $340mm to help with the reconstruction.   
 
Thats pretty damn badass 

Kering and LVMH do good work. It will be interesting to see if Goyard, Chanel, and Hermes pitch in. I'm sure they will.