Fenced Off
8/28, a day after Hurricane Irene blew through, was my 1st visit to the earthquake-damaged cathedral to see how bad it actually was. (Quite bad, it turns out.) I didn't take my camera, wanting to 'take it in' first; but I couldn't resist a photo with my iPhone in the end; 6-feet-high chain-link fence with barbed wire and yellow police tape encircled the building (a safety perimeter due to the TONS of loose stone overhead.) Even with the iPhone's limits as a camera, you can easily see central tower damages; the right-hand pinnacle of the tower, cut off flat, is missing ~8 feet of masonry!
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