Notre Dame Is Burning

[Black Aeronaut]

As for rebuilding... all of the trees that are large enough to provide replacement beams that would be large enough were cut down a long, long time ago. It's going to take decades to rebuild, and I suspect much of that time will be spent waiting for oaks to grow large enough to provide the necessary timber.

Actually about 150 years ago they planted oak trees just in case this happened. It takes about 150 years for oaks to mature to a harvestable age...



https://twitter.com/_theek_/status/11179...36/photo/1

Someone in that Twitter thread is saying that this story isn't true.  Can anyone find anything about it?