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Beach front property
Lots of land
Unobstructed view of the ocean
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Is it too soon?
Or too late?
You be the judge.
I’ll go with “too late” for one thousand, Alex.
Tooooooo laaaaaate!!!1!1!!!!elebenty.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
I would like to know who the builder is
*works for a concrete plant*
Insulated Concrete Foundation houses are always the ones you see laughing at the tornadoes in the footage of destruction. I doubt this one was such a house however. But in high risk areas I’d spend the extra money for an ICF house and rest easier.
That is assuming, of course, that this house is in the same location as it was prior to the disaster.
I think it’s been moved… who wants a house NOT facing the ocean?
Yeah, I’ve always wondered why so many houses in the USA are simply wooden constructions without actual concrete foundation (as is usual when building a house here in the Netherlands), especially in areas where tornadoes or earthquakes are frequent. Sure, it’s quick and easier, but it always kind of reminds me of the story of the Big Bad Wolf. A huff and a puff and it’s gone!
OMG! that’s NEVER been done before. on this site. EVER!!!!
Really? I feel so special getting to see something new and original
I crack up every time I see this pic. We rented a house in NC on the beach and it was one road back from the ocean. The next year the rent amount went up and Dad asked why. The realtor’s response was hilarious.
“Remember that hurricane a few months back?”
“Yeah.”
“It’s front row property now.”
Good news-bad news FTW!!!
“I don’t know about this front row property thing anymore. I just went for a swim and found somebody’s roof.”
When I lived in California, I had a house on the east side of the San Andreas fault. There is a section of the fault they call the Palmdale Bulge and it was predicted that if it ever let go, everyone in the area would have beach front property. For 20 years I prayed that it would happen. Not because I would end up with beach front property, but because it would mean L.A. finally dropped off into the ocean.
I’ve only VISITED L.A and I don’t blame you for that
I concur.
Leave LA alone!! You’re to even have visited LA you BASTARDS!
/chris crocker
No really though, the Getty Center and the Farmer’s Market are really great. There’s also this little Moroccan place on Pico that’s fantastic.
There’s an awesome Indian restaurant in Glendale, too.
Every time I see this picture, I wonder why that house came through unscathed while everything around it was flattened. Anyone know the backstory? Or is this a photoshopped picture?
The last time this picture was posted someone said that the story is that the lady who owns the house had previously owned two other houses in roughly the same place that had been flattened by hurricanes, and she was tired of it. When this house was built, she told the builder to spare no expense and build it better than the hurricane building codes. Of course it was the only one left standing. It used to be on stilts, though, and has some obvious water damage. Nothing like before, however.
+400 points to that lady for persistence.
I would have moved. Away.
Shaky mountaintops have the best views anyway, and I hear it’s more fun to fall to death than drown.
Apparently you’ve never lived in Texas. We do our best to NOT move away for any reason
(this is on a peninsula of Galveston Island)
Ah yes. My uncle used to live in Corpus Christi. USED to. While he lived there we had a name for him: Batshit crazy.
I live where only one hurricane has gone before. I, too, think that anyone living on any coast is asking for it. But it’s still Texas
Thanks for the information. But I don’t understand the part about “used to be on stilts.” Are you saying this house FELL OFF its stilts in the storm and landed upright and (relatively) unscathed? That would be pretty amazing.
I am thinking steel frame.
Yes. Most beach houses have stilts underneath, instead of foundations. It’s to accommodate for rising water, should it get high.
However, doesn’t do much to save you from 90-150 MpH winds ^.^
It’s kinda sad to see this picture, but also amazing. All the damage that storm did, and here it made it out okay!
Reinforced concrete pier footings rather than wood timber stilts, engineered lumber joists, hardware ties from foundation to rafters, shear panel walls . . .
. . . these are a few of my favorite things.
My job in Galveston took me into Crystal Beach at Rollover Pass (where this house is at) and this house is *still* the only house around. Swear to God, this is not photoshopped.
Mind of a Cheap mortgage seeker through the years:
2000s:Ooh! Can we get a sub-prime mortgage for that house? Then we can buy more and more and more……
2009: I get it, I get it! I’m sorry, ok?
Heh heh.
No offence intended
Learn to spell, maybe then no offense will be taken.
*ahem* Your American is showing. *ahem*
Well, Cosman has managed to piss me off in his last four posts, and since I’m in a bad mood today anyway, you and he can kiss my wide derierre.
bare it and we’ll share it, solationist wench.
Heh. Bare. Isolationist.
Sorry.
Don’t be pissed off. Cosman’s comment has nothing to do with the photo. It’s also not funny or even mildly amusing. Actually, it’s kind of stupid. So, just pat Cos on the head and congratulate him for even being able to string words together into a sentence. Isn’t it nice to see him trying so hard? He’s so proud of this comment that he’s laughing at his own post. (Nobody else will, so let him have this little moment.)
Well, yeah. You’re right.
I realize that means insulting myself and deflating my ego, but, ok.
My old comment was stupid.
Meh, not funny, but at least you tried. Hel was being a troll by mocking you just for making a clunker joke. No harm here. I like ya, just need to clean you up a bit and you could make a nice, upstanding regular.
Thanks. This place has changed a lot since I was last here.
As in, PunditKitchen. Not the house.
See, now, that cracked me up.
You’re right. I’m sorry for being a troll, Cosman.
-hugs froofrou- cheery up!
-gives cherry pie-
Now if the guy who designed this house could get together with the people who built the factory that held together when rolled (failblog). We could all have indestructible houses.
That roll around and hit into things without breaking every time another hurricane comes by…
I’ll take 2.
They can roll around all they want, they won’t break anything! (And a change of enviroment is always good).
This is a picture of me not caring about a picture that’s all over the internet of your house.
It’s one picture, for God’s sakes, and you could easily be lying. Real estate troll? How original.
Hi George. I’m Igloo, that’s Igor. Welcome to the internet. You must be new.
Just so you know George, the names Ty-gore, Iggler, TROGDOOOOR, and Tyler are aliases for me around here, so just know they’re not talking about you in code, okay?
By the way, why would you SEEK legal action, you could just head to a courthouse, rather than TAKING legal action against the site?
Eh, he means he’d be forced to cold-call and annoy about 6 attorneys in the Houston/Galveston area and pester them about whether there’s anything he can DOOOOO about this. Which unless he took the picture and owns the rights to it, or is, say, visibly standing naked on the porch and it was captioned to make fun of him, I’m going with “probably not” and if he called me would add “Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? How is this hurting you in ANY way?”
They all float down here, dissi…
You can also call him trogloditical herpes-pustule-gor in a pinch.
That’s a good one, daddy.
One does what one can to bolster the self-esteem of one’s progeny.
If I traded you for shit, I would lose the container I brought you
in.
I meant… yeah.
George, were you trying to make a joke? Maybe a reference to Mrs. Palin’s recent threatened legal action against the interwebz? Am I REALLY reaching here because you are serious? If the latter is the case, well…HAHAHAHAHA!!
Even if he was… I’ve never met a real estate troll before…
Do you think they’re the higher-paid middle class trolls?
I kinda thought he was joking but now I wish that he is serious because I hope with all my heart that he calls Diss for legal advice.
It would be along the lines of my typical callers…
No, seriously? She threatened to sue the INTERNET?????
Hmph. That figures. The damn Internet didn’t show up for court.
We live on the north side of Houston, and my husband grew up near Galveston. The destruction from the hurricane was horrific, but I was just there last week, and they’ve really started coming back. You’ve got to laugh at the picture though, otherwise you would cry.
I have a little trouble laughing at it, so I’m laughing at the comments (especially the “front row housing” story). My wife and I lived on the north side of Galveston and our house was whacked when the eyewall passed over and the winds shifted. House was later demo-ed.
But, yeah, you have to laugh at this sometimes to keep your sanity.
I lived through the hurricane. I was just outside the evac. zones (I live in the Galleria area). Ive actually seen this house as I work for the goverment. Bolivar peninsula is still recovering.
LOL
they painted this thing the other day.
it was really sad.
EVERYONE knows it as the yellow cabin…
now it’s an awkward grey-ish color.
Holy shit. I think that’s my grandparents’ house… They were one of the only ones still standing after katrina.
They had their basement/ foundation redone before the hurricane… The city bought it and now they’re pretty rich.
THIS ISN’T FROM KATRINA ITS FROM IKE IT HIT GALVESTON 9/13/08
Oh, this is an architecture WIN for sure
dude i live in houston and went through the WHOLE hurricane with no POWER for 3 weeks
This house is in Galveston after IKE hit. I am born and raised 20 mins from Galveston in League City. The person who told the story about how the lady was tired of her house being destroyed by hurricanes is true. Not all beach house front doors face the beach. As the picture clearly shows her patio’s are facing the beach. Also not all beach house are on the front row.
IKE was absolutely intense. For those of us who lived thru it now have awesome stories to tell. Days/weeks w/o power. Gas shortages.
There is still damage every where I go in the League City/Alvin/Dickinson area. We have rebuilt and are cont-ing to do so.
Thanks for all the support from the rest of the country. We crazy Texans to appriecate it.