Fire damage brings not just physical loss, but emotional weight too. This guide walks you through the restoration process: stay calm, assess what you can salvage, discard what’s unsafe, notify your insurer, and partner with trusted professionals for a smoother recovery. The post Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration: How To Recover Your Belongings first appeared on My Decorative.| My Decorative
A husband-and-wife duo hopes to breathe new life into a neglected, decaying 100-year-old religious landmark in St. Petersburg. Noam Krasniansky bought the Euclid Methodist Church, also known as the Euclid Mansion, for $1.1 million in August 2023. According to adaptive reuse documents obtained by the Catalyst, he is "completely renovating the structure to bring it [...]| St Pete Catalyst
A husband-and-wife duo’s last-ditch effort to transform a decaying religious landmark in St. Petersburg into a unique event space has failed. Noam Krasniansky unveiled his ambitious plans for the nearly century-old Euclid Methodist Church, also known as the Euclid Mansion, in February 2024. The neglected institution has remained vacant since 2005. In November 2024, the [...]| St Pete Catalyst
Demolition once loomed for a decaying religious landmark in St. Petersburg after attempts to transform it into a unique event space failed in February due to concerns over parking and noise. However, an undeterred husband-and-wife duo will soon open the nearly century-old Euclid Methodist Church’s doors to the public for the first time since 2005. [...]| St Pete Catalyst
Google Earth has recently (Jan2025) made available high resolution images of some areas of North Sikkim which reveal the devastating impact of the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) of Oct2023 in North Sikkim. The images below juxtapose the affected areas with historical snapshots, illustrating the catastrophic consequences of the GLOF.| Visions of Hell
There are two types of people in the world: Car people and everyone else. It’s easy to pick out a true car person. How so? They usually look back at...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
It may seem like your car is completely protected while parked in the garage. Guess what? It’s not! Your car, truck, SUV or van is vulnerable to a number of...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
It was as if the bird knew that my new car cover was on the way – it was his last chance. Yep, you guessed it. I parked my car...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
Summer is tar, sap and bug season. Are you ready for this time of year? Insects are at full population, trees produce more sap and sometimes intense summer heat melts...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
It’s a fact that paint and trim will fade away under the sun’s brutal UV rays. This often happens to cars that aren’t kept garaged or covered. In any case,...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
Did you know that the very same water you use to wash your car is also capable of doing damage to your paint? Some folks find that surprising, but it’s...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
Take a look at this nasty paint scratch… This type of thing happens to everybody, though many folks don’t even notice. Meticulous car owners, on the other hand, tend to...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
Accidentally curbing your nice alloy wheels is a good way to completely ruin your day. Thankfully, most minor damage is a relatively easy repair. Yup. You can fix curbed, scuffed...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
Depending on your location, strong wind gusts and sudden storms are a regular part of life; your roof takes the brunt of that damage.| America's Choice Inspections
It’s not about rights (though it seems some rights mean more than others?) It’s not about need (who can say about greed) It’s not about whales (or this rare, safe place they calve) It’s not about flora, fauna, or natural heritage (or dinosaur footprints left 130 million years ago) It’s not about a wilderness few will visit (out […] The post For the Kimberley first appeared on Sara Foster.| Sara Foster
If you've read my posts on D&D Without Damage Dice and Ascending Damage, you'll know I use a sort of "wound counting" or "hit counting" system, which by definition has static damage - every hit with a weapon is just "one hit". The design goal is to make combat simpler and faster, but ideally, it should still be interesting and have some variety.| Homebrew Homunculus
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Prevent extra car rental charges and other problems by using ten essential tips. Fill up after rentals. Know the toll rules. And more.| Travelers United
NHPC has a large residential/administrative complex at Baluatar (Singtam), SIkkim (27 15 1.8 N 88 27 34.1 E) parts of which were severely damaged by the 04Oct 2023 GLOF. We have done an extensive photo report of the area here| Visions of Hell
NH10 winds itself along the banks of the Teesta river. Gangtok and Kalimpong are towards the right hand side whereas Siliguri is towards the left.| Visions of Hell
IMPACT OF THE JULY 2024 RAINS AT TEESTA BAZAR: | Visions of Hell
Even though the SW monsoons set in our region on 31May2024, the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya started receiving significant rainfall only after the 10Jun2024.| Visions of Hell
The chances of a medieval book making it to the safety of a modern library are dazzlingly small. Relatively few did. Imagine the challenging journey across centuries of wear and tear, fire and wate…| medievalbooks
Protecting your roof not only extends its lifespan but also prevents costly repairs or replacements down the line.| Mom With Five
The destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian in September of 2022 was unprecedented and felt across the entire Diocese of Venice, with thousands of people and hundreds of buildings affected. In […]| Diocese of Venice
As Flinders Chase National Park reopens for the first time since devastating bushfires destroyed about half of Kangaroo Island, photos of some of its most iconic tourist spots show how much has been lost.| www.abc.net.au
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I have to admit, part of me was pleased when I saw I won a national award in the portrait division of the American Society of Media Photographers annual contest. But I was a little reluctant to celebrate the award, as it is a bit unsettling getting an award for a disaster photo. The […]| View Nola Blog
It reads like a horror story. In 1964, the New York rare book dealer Philip Duschnes (d. 1970) bought and subsequently broke a splendid medieval Bible produced in early-fourteenth-century Paris (Figure 1). Every page is adorned with exuberant decoration, usually with gold leaf. The manuscript also contains numerous historiated initials, like the letter S above. With … Continue reading Breaking Bad: The Incomplete History of the St Albans Bible→| medievalbooks