Posted on 01/03/2020 10:42:40 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The restoration of the Paris cathedral has reached a critical stage, in which steel beams need to be installed to stabilize the structure and a tower of scaffolding fused in the fire in April has to be removed. The scaffolding, which was erected before the blaze, must be treated for lead contamination before specialists—suspended aloft by ropes—can cut it away. Once this perilous step is complete, they will construct a temporary roof, called the “grand parapluie” (or large umbrella), over the nave. No final decision has yet been made about the design of the cathedral’s lost spire.
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They should get help from the guy that was walking on the roof the nigtt hi of the fire.
They should get help from the guy that was walking on the roof the night of the fire.
Total silence about the perps.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I still suspect that the fire was deliberately set by muzzies. Prior to the fire, a number of churches across France had been torched by muzzies, and they threatened a “big one”. The French government doesn’t want open civil war between muzzies and the rest of the Country, so they have kept it hushed up.
Who cares if it is lead? It’s probably the least contaminated thing in the rubble. Cut it down and test later to decide where it could be properly disposed.
Now, about properly disposing of everything from nuclear waste to baby diapers. Geez, everything eventually leaches into the soil and then the rains come washing it downstream to, well, everywhere.
Moochy was floating around in a boat nearby that fateful night.
Still don’t understand why they couldn’t have held Christmas mass in the parking lot.
Restoration of the cathedral today has to be vastly easier than the original construction of it. See the tower crane in the picture? Think of all of the structure-building equipment available today. Steel beams are mentioned. None of that when it was built originally.
The only thing the original builders had going for them was thousands of slaves and no regard for their working conditions or safety.
slaves? Really?
parking lot, thats funny
“Who cares if it is lead?”
I believe they have to cut the scaffolding, most likely with a torch, which could potentially expose workers to lead fumes. Personally, I think the hazard is overrated. Put them in respirators and move on.
If the workers were made to wear deep sea diver outifts with the air pumped in via hoses from a blower several miles away, then they should be safe from any fumes.
But the psychological and emotional damage from knowing that they touched lead? Can’t heal that.
The lead came from where?
Roof sealants? Pipes?
Of course all 13th century cathedrals were built with great big parking lots. I mean were else were they going to park the SUV’s and busses used to bring in the slave labor?
The roof, lead tiles.
Probably from lead roofing sheets, the most common waterproof roofing material until the modern era...easy to work in complex shapes... easy to solder joints. Amount of lead piping would be minuscule in a cathedral.
Oh.
I was thinking the roof was tiles, slate or something.
That much lead would be danged heavy...
That much lead would be danged heavy...
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It was purposely designed to be heavy, in case gravity failed. Gotta have that extra inertia to give people time to evacuate the building before it goes drifting off.
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