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It made a sound like the house was falling apart. Remarkably, we only lost 5 of the 60 bottles that fell. Yikes.<\/p>\n

The part that gave way — and it was the brackets that were screwed into the wall that snapped — was a triangular section. The majority of the bottles (based on the dents in the linoleum below) fell cork-first, which meant they hit at their strongest part. <\/p>\n

You can see the pool of wine from what broke seeping toward the back. Which reminds me of the joke about the drunk who staggers out of the liquor store into the street, is hit by a car, picks himself up, feels something wet, looks at it, and mutters, “Thank God, it’s blood.”<\/p>\n

We got the fallen bottles wiped down and into boxes, the broken stuff into a trash can, a wet-vac to pick up most of the remaining glass and wine, and that’s it for tonight. Time enough to further assess (and recatalog) tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It made a sound like the house was falling apart. Remarkably, we only lost 5 of the 60 bottles that fell. Yikes. 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