Some houses fair a lot better than others. Serendipity, the house in the movie Nights in Rodanthe, was being reclaimed by the sea. A storm in October 2008 just about finished it off. Dare County served notice that the house was a public nuisance and had to be moved or torn down. The Pennsylvania couple who owned it decided to level it.
Along came a couple from Western North Carolina who fell in love with the house. They purchased it and moved it to a less precarious spot in Rodanthe. Just amazing!
Each locality seems to have its own set of problems, doesn’t it. Neighorhood Services in Dare County probably operates a little different there than it does here. I had no idea how houses were moved. You can see Serendipity move right off its pilings and onto the truck. It looks impossible, but they did it!
You might want to turn the sound down. The music got annoying real fast.
That house is an absolute scream. However, come the next hurricane; and the house will likely be “Gone with the Wind.”
This house makes me think of 10131 Lomond Dr. Grr.
I hope that POS sits empty until someone tears it done. According to county staff it’s all in compliance and approved. Any fool could see the aerial picture and see the the lot is well covered over the 40% allowed by county code. I will never understand how that house got approved when it’s twice the size of the rest of the neighborhood.
Twice? I bet it is 3 times as big as the house right next to it.
How about that one down at the very end of King George, near the fields? Totally amazing, and those are bigger lots down there.
Wolverine, that is hilarious. That house narrowly missed being Gone with the Wind for sure. Another storm and it would have thought Sherman was Marching through Georgia. I guess it lives on a quiet street now. A friend of mine has been following this house story for about a year now.
Facinating how a house is moved. Just cut it off its pilings….
Moon, if they ever moved that house next to me, I’d have a fit. It looks like something out of Harry Potter…or maybe “Night of the Living Dead.”
LOL Actually it fits in well in that environment but I agree. It wouldn’t do well in Loudoun. It does look like Harry Potter. Did you see the video and how they moved it? Way cool.