Save the Shoes!

This is a totally bizarre story. I'm resigned to the fact that there are somethings that I have zero chance of ever "getting", Schrödinger's cat and shoes are two things that quickly come to mind.

From the The New York Times.

— a museum curator in Marikina, a suburb of Manila, is doing all she can to preserve one symbol of the country’s history: hundreds of pairs of shoes once owned by the former first lady Imelda Marcos.

According to Dolly Borlongan, who runs Marikina’s Footwear Museum, flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana last month did possibly irreparable damage to about 20 of the 800 pairs of shoes Ms. Marcos donated to the museum before it opened in 2001. A museum security guard waded into knee-deep water to save the rest of the collection.