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Newfoundland couple gets their dream home — by moving it on the water
CBC News ^ | 10/12/2021 | Lindsay Bird

Posted on 10/26/2021 6:36:34 PM PDT by outofsalt

"A scene out of rural Newfoundland history sprang to life on Thanksgiving Monday (Canadian Thanksgiving was 10/11) as a two-storey house bobbed along the Bay of Islands toward a new life on a new shoreline."

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""It was the little green house on the point that I loved," she said. "I talked about it to my friends, my family. Everybody knew that my heart always belonged to this house." "Her heart belonged there, but the deed didn't. That changed in June, when Penney found out its owners were planning to tear it down and rebuild in its place." " An overland trip wouldn't work, with too many power lines and other obstacles in the way, but a haul across the water could, they figured. Houses were once often moved by water in Newfoundland and Labrador coastal communities"
1 posted on 10/26/2021 6:36:34 PM PDT by outofsalt
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To: outofsalt

The house almost sank during her voyage!
Happy ending with fun video and photos.


2 posted on 10/26/2021 6:37:54 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

3 posted on 10/26/2021 6:38:48 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: outofsalt
"Captain, she's a listing aft!"


4 posted on 10/26/2021 6:41:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: outofsalt

Good story


5 posted on 10/26/2021 6:45:07 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Strange story; but interesting pursuit of a dream.

Maybe they have more money than brains...


6 posted on 10/26/2021 6:46:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: outofsalt

Seems I read about this in The Shipping News.
“The Rock” has it’s share of stories.


7 posted on 10/26/2021 6:50:54 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

I don’t read much contemporary ‘literary fiction’ - but I liked that book.


8 posted on 10/26/2021 6:54:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ken H

Those two look like they could have towed the house across the water for a Scooby snack.


9 posted on 10/26/2021 7:02:41 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
""Captain, she's a listing aft!""

Nah, that was just before she got up on plane!

10 posted on 10/26/2021 7:04:03 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

Good. Now get married instead of shacking up.


11 posted on 10/26/2021 7:05:55 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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Really. Have a baby, buy a house together and not be married? What I’m the world is that about??


12 posted on 10/26/2021 7:17:22 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: JOHN ADAMS

What IN the world


13 posted on 10/26/2021 7:18:06 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: JOHN ADAMS

So much of that going on, unfortunately.


14 posted on 10/26/2021 7:18:32 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: JOHN ADAMS

I’m not as interested in their sexual lives as in the fact that they have waterlogged a house that will probably cost them as much to rehab as building an identical one would.


15 posted on 10/26/2021 7:29:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

In a way I can’t help but think of the end of 1941 where the house winds up in ocean.


16 posted on 10/26/2021 7:31:53 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: outofsalt

Barrels were placed underneath the house, and the structure tied to a metal frame that itself had an extra buoyancy boost from old tires.

Florida man would do this.


17 posted on 10/26/2021 7:56:58 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: Flick Lives

Cuba man grade


18 posted on 10/26/2021 8:06:26 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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