kookbreaker
12th July 2007, 08:58 AM
I was talking with my Mom a couple of days ago and we discussed the church fire that took place about 10 years ago not 1/2 a block from the house I grew up in (and where my parents still live).
A picture of the church can be seen here (http://www.trinitycentercity.org/newsletters.php)
One of the things that was mentioned as a 'big event' of the fire was when the slate roof slid on the top of the church off, all at once.
Troothers without any knowledge of structural engineering complain that all the columns in the core of the towers could not have failed at once, and so the building should have tipped over or some other nonsense.
Now, slate roofs are held on with nails, usually galvanized steel nails. How is it that all these nails failed at once? Because the entire slate roof, despite being hundreds of individual slates held on with hudreds more nails, slid of as if it were one piece, on both sides of the slanted roof no less.
So was Trinity Memorial an inside job?
A picture of the church can be seen here (http://www.trinitycentercity.org/newsletters.php)
One of the things that was mentioned as a 'big event' of the fire was when the slate roof slid on the top of the church off, all at once.
Troothers without any knowledge of structural engineering complain that all the columns in the core of the towers could not have failed at once, and so the building should have tipped over or some other nonsense.
Now, slate roofs are held on with nails, usually galvanized steel nails. How is it that all these nails failed at once? Because the entire slate roof, despite being hundreds of individual slates held on with hudreds more nails, slid of as if it were one piece, on both sides of the slanted roof no less.
So was Trinity Memorial an inside job?