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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"
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:36:34 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
To: outofsalt
The house almost sank during her voyage!
Happy ending with fun video and photos.
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:37:54 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: outofsalt
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:38:48 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Trump won.)
To: outofsalt
"Captain, she's a listing aft!"
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:41:57 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
To: outofsalt
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:45:07 PM PDT
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Strange story; but interesting pursuit of a dream.
Maybe they have more money than brains...
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:46:30 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: outofsalt
Seems I read about this in The Shipping News.
“The Rock” has it’s share of stories.
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:50:54 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
I don’t read much contemporary ‘literary fiction’ - but I liked that book.
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posted on
10/26/2021 6:54:51 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Ken H
Those two look like they could have towed the house across the water for a Scooby snack.
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posted on
10/26/2021 7:02:41 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
""Captain, she's a listing aft!"" Nah, that was just before she got up on plane!
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posted on
10/26/2021 7:04:03 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: outofsalt
Good. Now get married instead of shacking up.
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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.)
To: Bigg Red
Really. Have a baby, buy a house together and not be married? What I’m the world is that about??
To: JOHN ADAMS
To: JOHN ADAMS
So much of that going on, unfortunately.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
10/26/2021 7:29:02 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
In a way I can’t help but think of the end of 1941 where the house winds up in ocean.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
10/26/2021 7:56:58 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The future is a quiet world)
To: Flick Lives
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posted on
10/26/2021 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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