On 3/22/09 1:26 PM, Martha Krieg wrote:
A 200-year-old oak fell on my in-laws' house in Maryland,
and knocked it 6 inches back on its foundation!
(Fortunately MIL was NOT taking her usual nap on the lounge
chair in the room the tree primarily hit that day!).
A fellow doing about ninety on a road where the prudent speed was forty did pretty much the same damage to a home about a mile from where I was living at the time, and the car ended up inside a porch where one of the family habitually napped. By great good luck they weren't home at the time. It's a great pity that people who drive like this can't be held to account for it unless they were drunk at the time.
The contractor who repaired it told me that he had to winch the house back onto the foundation. When the job was finished, he remarked that the new brick siding on the front of the house wasn't siding at all -- it was foundation wall, all the way up.
The people across the road from this house had huge "ornamental" boulders all along the street side of their yard.
But the tom-fool idjits who lived on the crossbar of a T intersection that was down the road the other way lost one of a row of trees in their front yard to a driver who didn't stop at the intersection -- and replaced it with a rosebush!
Wasn't a multiflora, either.
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