National Cathedral damaged

[Recursion]

Some stuff has fallen off the spire -- hard to tell exactly what it is. Given cell traffic it's taking forever to upload pictures from my phone, but if they make it up I'll link them.

[renegade000]

1. as long as the darth vader gargoyle is ok!

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/about/darthVader.shtml

in seriousness though, i hope the damage is minimal.

[stuntcat]

11. :)

I have yet to go see it.

[hlthe2b]

2. Is it fairly signficant?

[Recursion]

4. No just like part of the spire I think

Maybe even just the antenna? Crowd is coming and going next time it empties out I'll see what I can see

[originalpckelly]

3. Crap, what happens if we need to worship a dead President now?

[mod mom]

5. @ least 3 of the 4 pinnacles on the central tower have fallen off and the central tower leaning

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/virginia-earthquake-washi_n_934307.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I hope no one was walking near there at the time. I also hope the tower itself is

fixable.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Here's some video showing the damage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q590N5B0Sqs

[dtexdem]

8. Hmm, obviously and act of God.

;-)

[uppityperson]

9. Here's a picture of it.

[unblock]

10. why does god hate, um, god?

[EFerrari]

12. LOL

[PoliticAverse]

13. Close up photos of the cathedral damage...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/08/what-really-happened-national-cathedral-quake/41644/

[brendan120678]

14. Wow..that is some pretty significant damage.

That'll be a million-dollar repair bill for the Episcopal Diocese there.
I see they already have a donate page on their website. http://www.dcquake.nationalcathedral.org/