InsaneJournal

Current mood:

sad

A REALLY BAD Monday
Some of you may know I am the city historic preservation officer for a small Montana town. Today, due to a careless workman and high winds, we lost most of a block of historic buildings. Beautiful, unique buildings. Plus the businesses in those buildings. A popular quilt shop. The clothing and decorative stuff store in a building that had recently restored the interior to its tin ceilinged hard wood floored glory.

I bought gifts for almost ten-year-old niece Saturday at both those stores. I wanted to go back and buy a blouse for myself. The building the quilt shop was in is hole in the ground. The store the gift and clothing shop was in may be salvageable. The 1887 Queen Ann brick two story on one end, a lovely and nearly intact exterior, is going to have to come down. There was a beauty salon in it that has been in continuous operation, in the same family, since 1929. They had their original perm machine. Gone.

We have had THREE major Main Street fires in Montana this month. Plus a private plane crash that killed a bunch of people, mostly children.

Who did we piss off?