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Big ass tree falls on big ass house
07/19/2007 6:06 PM by John M
The brief and intense weather that blew through this afternoon pushed over a very large tree onto 1201 North 20th Street, one of my favorite vacant houses in Fairmount.
that is a big ass tree!
ouch poor house, how much damage was there. i thought branch might brek off my tree but luckily it didnt. those were some winds.
courtesy of that bad ass storm!
It looks fixable. I’m just afraid that the city will decide to demolish the house without giving any thought to its aesthetic value – especially if the owner doesn’t show up to remove the tree right away. If the city removes the tree, it’ll probably remove the house right along with it.
hopefully they wont knock it down. thats a good looking house from the pic. im gonna wlk by it later just to check it out. mybe someone can get a good deal on it if thts the route they decide to take.
That house was for sale for ~$170k last year. It is on a big lot and includes a few out buildings. Mosby is just across the way, however, and the rest of that intersection is a boarded-up house, an empty lot where a house burned, and another crazy beautiful vacant house.
it really didnt seem to do much damage. tht is big house but i dont see them getting 170 for it. tht seems pretty overpriced. the one across the street is pretty pimp too.
A limb fell on my patio…does that count?
ouch poor patio mybe someone can get good deal on a patio now
We just closed on our rehab right around the corner last wednesday…wouldn’t that have been our luck to have the leaning tree in our side yard fall the first day of owning the house.
Pardon a foolish question. When I drove back from I64 this afternoon, I took 30th Street to Libby Hill. Why does the City leave all those downed trees North of Broad on the sidewalks, etc.
Who is the spokesperson for those who live on 30th??? There are kids riding bikes around half trees which have broken in the middle and blocked several sidewalks; accidents waiting to happen.
The obvious question is why is South of Broad threatened and historic trees which have at least 100 rings, like the one cut down by Dominion Power at 21st and E. Franklin are quickly picked up, but not North of Broad???
Lu Motley
I think that the city just got behind on all of this, they came and got that tree either today or yesterday. It could be, too, that Dominion is a bit quicker to clean up after themselves than the city.
I saw where a tree downtown on WEST Franklin was still down in the street the other day. And it was a small tree…
This house is being repaired, as it were… New vinyl siding is being put over the original wood and the slate roof is being pulled off.
Oh, now I’ve placed the house. I spent about twenty minutes walking around the outside and peeking in the windows a couple of years back when we were doing something across the street (PSA: if you have renters, make sure they don’t store open five-gallon buckets of gasoline in your upstairs hallway). It is a huge house. Too bad they’re not trying to save the roof, although from what I understand, the slate usually isn’t what causes the demise of the roof – it’s the substructure. And that’s without the tree-falling-on-it part.