Thursday, June 6, 2024

DESTRUCTION AND DEATH

 A sign marks the site of the worst act of vandalism my town has ever seen.


After the arson fire at the Legado apartment and shopping complex on April 1st, the remains of the concrete parking garage are being taken down.




In this photograph, you can see the town's event center, just kitty-corner across the street from the fire area.


And in this photograph of the parking garage being torn down, you can see in the center right the occupied apartment project just across a fairly narrow street.

Fortunately firefighters from several departments kept the flames from spreading beyond the Legado project which was about 50 percent complete.

Ironically, as I was photographing this today, a "dust devil" came directly through the destruction.

A relative of a tornado the swirling winds on the right took on a black hue from what it had come through.



Fortunately no lives were lost in this disaster.

Not so the other event we take note of today.

D-Day in 1944.

This is just part of the cemetery in Normandy, near where so many died fighting the menace of Nazi Germany.