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mn9driver

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15. The vaults are critical.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2019, 01:24 PM

Dec 2019

They are the only thing keeping the nave from folding in on itself. Steel or massive wooden bridging needs to be installed on the inside to prevent this from happening, but there are hundreds of tons of melted steel scaffolding and lead hanging unsupported just above the vaults.

So, bridging can’t be installed until the horrible and dangerous mess above the vault is removed. But removing the mess may cause the vaults to collapse. Without bridging, that would be Game Over.

50-50 is probably optimistic unless they can figure out how to get bridging in there sooner rather than later.

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Notre Dame cathedral has just 50% chance of being saved, rector says [View all] Dennis Donovan Dec 2019 OP

I hope he is wrong... And yes, to the naysayers, it is "just a building" & people are suffering all hlthe2b Dec 2019 #1

I consider such religious structures more as tributes to Man than to any god Dennis Donovan Dec 2019 #2

Agree!!! K&R!!! Magic did not create them. It was the strenuous, artistic and caring work of RKP5637 Dec 2019 #6

+1. The magnificent splendor has to be seen in person to be fully appreciated dalton99a Dec 2019 #7

I couldn't have said it better. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2019 #4

So Catholics pocket the 400 Billion Dollars the billionaires sent? LakeArenal Dec 2019 #3

The Church doesn't own the cathedral, France does Brother Buzz Dec 2019 #5

The French government owns all religious buildings constructed before 1905. dalton99a Dec 2019 #8

I'm hopeful, I've seen worse.. Historic NY Dec 2019 #9

I wouldn't oppose if they reconstructed it in the manner they did the Reichstag... Dennis Donovan Dec 2019 #11

It's several months. God! Why hasn't the work started? brush Dec 2019 #10

They had to remove the scaffolding very carefully dalton99a Dec 2019 #12

They must save it. I'm an art history/architecture buff and it would be a great lost... brush Dec 2019 #13

Notre Dame, Paris, appalachiablue Dec 2019 #14

The vaults are critical. mn9driver Dec 2019 #15

Jesus, I hadn't realized the scaffolding melted (meaning can't be easily disassembled) Dennis Donovan Dec 2019 #16

Smarter people than me might be able to do that... mn9driver Dec 2019 #17