Originally published at: Watch the moment a house falls into a river and floats away | Boing Boing
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Shoutout to the carpenters. That house held together pretty well, all things considered.
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Fly free little house! Safe journey!
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I’ve always found it interesting to see whole houses floating relatively intact, like big ungainly boats. I mean they are not built for this purpose, yet they float pretty well and often seem to stay in one piece.
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I hope the owners were able to get their things out. Especially the things like chemicals that will cause issues for animals and insects later
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So if it washes up against a bridge and they can tow it back upriver!
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Water always wins.
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House boat!
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This was the opening plot to the ABC Weekend Special - Cougar!
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“Oh, it’s just moved,”
That’s a British-level understatement.
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What’s up with so many posts being headed by an un- or barely-related image lately? When we were kids, just some text and a screengrab was good 'nuff for us!
It always bugs me, watching a video of impending disaster, thinking “Why was this guy just filming instead of trying to do something to help???”
You see, the problem with building your house too close to a river bank…
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In this instance, what helpful action would you recommend?
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I don’t know, something!!! He had nearly a minute to get across that torrential flow and find and move some ballast into the other side! I figure driving a dozen fully loaded SUVs through the walls might have done it. Maybe.
including “/s” this time for greater surety
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The Yellowstone area has been hard hit this week; flooding has isolated a lot of the small towns and trapped some tourists in the park because of washed out roads and landslides. I remember driving some of those roads several years back, and now see the roads with big chunks missing.
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It wasn’t that close to begin with.
I think this is the house:
It looks like the water washed away a good 50 feet of riverbank.
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“Hey honey, the neighbors are moving!”
“oh yeah? where to?”
“…i’m not sure…”
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Did he look like Moses?
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Looping a tow cable around a porch column and pulling it back from the river would have made a heck of a truck commercial.
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