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totchipanda) wrote2024-04-23 09:30 am
totchipanda) wrote2024-04-23 09:30 am
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Finished stitching the seam allowances down and pressed them as flat as I could. Restitching them back together is going much slower for various reasons - thicker thread, more closely spaced (I've measured them at 15 st per inch with doubled thread, pattern suggests 18-25), and the cotton I used for the support layers is SO TIGHTLY WOVEN that getting a needle through it is hard enough without the extra thread thickness! I need a needle that is both sharp and sturdy without being too thick. I got a few inches sewn before the thread broke and I called it a night.
IN other news, J sent a video about a building on fire in the city, not far from M's work. At first it was just filled with smoke billowing into the air. He sent videos of a smoke cloud when he was a good 50km (30 miles) from the city wondering if that was what he was seeing. He sent another video of the building well and properly on fire, and then the roof and front (or back?) collapsing in on itself, engulfed in flames.
According to news sites, ash and debris were falling all over, but the few fires that caught on other buildings were extinguished before they became dangerous. It's been so dry and windy these past few days, which did not help (except that the immediate area around it was recently excavated so there was no bone-dry grass to catch) and the building was old and made of wood. Eleven crews were out to contain it while it burned The good news is that no serious injuries were reported, no other significant damage to anything nearby.
I am having a lot of capital F Feelings about this fire because A: it was incredible (neutral) and B: the building was... well it was old. It was an airplane hangar built in 1942 by the US to support war efforts in WWII. The airport it was attached to closed several years ago and the airfields have been under redevelopment, and the whole area was and is an important part of the city's history. The building was declared a historic landmark in 2022 and now it is just... gone. The only one like it left now is the aviation museum.
IN other news, J sent a video about a building on fire in the city, not far from M's work. At first it was just filled with smoke billowing into the air. He sent videos of a smoke cloud when he was a good 50km (30 miles) from the city wondering if that was what he was seeing. He sent another video of the building well and properly on fire, and then the roof and front (or back?) collapsing in on itself, engulfed in flames.
According to news sites, ash and debris were falling all over, but the few fires that caught on other buildings were extinguished before they became dangerous. It's been so dry and windy these past few days, which did not help (except that the immediate area around it was recently excavated so there was no bone-dry grass to catch) and the building was old and made of wood. Eleven crews were out to contain it while it burned The good news is that no serious injuries were reported, no other significant damage to anything nearby.
I am having a lot of capital F Feelings about this fire because A: it was incredible (neutral) and B: the building was... well it was old. It was an airplane hangar built in 1942 by the US to support war efforts in WWII. The airport it was attached to closed several years ago and the airfields have been under redevelopment, and the whole area was and is an important part of the city's history. The building was declared a historic landmark in 2022 and now it is just... gone. The only one like it left now is the aviation museum.
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