Small town in upstate New York, about two blocks from the Canadian border; started last night and burned to the ground. Luckily it was some distance away from the Church.
No one hurt, no known reason at this time. Big event, fire companies from even Canada.
http://www.wcax.com/story/27873465/fire-at-st-marys-academy-in-champlain-ny
Sorry to see that. Must have been an older building. The high school I went to wouldn't burn if you doused it in napalm.
Toyman01 wrote: Sorry to see that. Must have been an older building. The high school I went to wouldn't burn if you doused it in napalm.
Same here, I don't think there was hardly any wood at all in my h.s.
Sorry to see that as well. The last few family reunions have been at the one room school my grandmother went to way back when, known as the Delmar school. The floor in that sucker is mostly heart pine, also known as 'fat lighter' down here. If it ever catches fire it's gonna go up like a torch.
My alma mater is all brick and other types of masonry, it would take a nuke to set it on fire. I guess the idea was to build something the kids couldn't destroy.
Yeah, my HS wouldn't go up with napalm either. I would not be surprised if some have tried.
My high school was torn down. Yup, in Detroit they let houses stand for decades so crack-heads have a place to live and rape, but a gorgeous stone building built in the 20s gets the wrecking ball.
Was your wife's old school in use still?
I pass near that place about once a month, when I go to my US adress. The entire town of Champlain is old and easily burnt, so I`m sure people were nervous.
Sad to see another old historic building burn down. Champlain doesnt look to be doing too great. I'm sure this wont help.
Mine got torn down and replaced by a church.
That sucks. Kinda sounds accidental w/ workmen in the building repairing broken water pipes, torch? Kudos to firefighters and responders working in sub-freezing temps.
I keep hoping the entire city I went to school in will burn.....
mndsm wrote: I keep hoping the entire city I went to school in will burn.....
Both myself and my wife feel the same, respectively. As in where we went, not some crazy vandeta against where you went.
DrBoost wrote: Was your wife's old school in use still?
Yes, but with fewer students than when my wife graduated in 1970 or her mother in 1947. There were only two major employers in town, both pulled out. One offered to relocate any local that wanted to go, my in-laws took it; went to Ohio. FIL passed, MIL moved near here some years later.
It's pretty quiet up there now, but I have BEEN to some parties! Guy got convicted of killing his wife by shooting her through the picture window, his 19 year old daughter inherited the bar. Oh boy.
Crossed back and forth to Canada via dirt roads, stepped up to a bar and ordered a Molson. They gave me a quart bottle. The first one was tough .....
Have you heard of Fort Blunder? Wifey used to party there with friends, try to out run the border patrols.
neon4891 wrote:mndsm wrote: I keep hoping the entire city I went to school in will burn.....Both myself and my wife feel the same, respectively. As in where we went, not some crazy vandeta against where you went.
I'd be ok if you were mad at where I went too, quite frankly.
Any word on the cause? I'd guess civil unrest.
No cause, no civil unrest - - just ice.
The school is on a hill, all of the water used ran down the hill into downtown. It hovered around zero to minus six here last night, Champlain is 150 miles north so I suspect colder than that. Thanks to all the volunteer firemen; you couldn't pay me enough to get up in the middle of the night, freezing cold, wind chill, water, oh my.
It was the Canadians.....its always the Canadians....
That'll buff out.
iceracer wrote: Mine got torn down and replaced by a church.
Mine got torn down and replaced by condos.
nepa03focus wrote:Toyman01 wrote: Sorry to see that. Must have been an older building. The high school I went to wouldn't burn if you doused it in napalm.Same here, I don't think there was hardly any wood at all in my h.s.
When we were kids, we used to joke that a tornado would destroy the town and the High School would be the only thing standing intact.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote:nepa03focus wrote:When we were kids, we used to joke that a tornado would destroy the town and the High School would be the only thing standing intact.Toyman01 wrote: Sorry to see that. Must have been an older building. The high school I went to wouldn't burn if you doused it in napalm.Same here, I don't think there was hardly any wood at all in my h.s.
That didnt go so well in Oklahoma a few years back....
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