15 Responses to “big ass tree falls on big ass house”

1. posted by alicia at July 19, 2007 6:29 pm :
   

   that is a big ass tree!

2. posted by thepinch at July 19, 2007 6:56 pm :
   

   ouch poor house, how much damage was there. i thought branch might brek off my tree but luckily it didnt. those were some winds.

3. posted by andrew at July 19, 2007 7:19 pm :
   

   courtesy of that bad ass storm!

4. posted by stephen at July 20, 2007 7:56 am :
   

   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.

5. posted by thepinch at July 20, 2007 8:35 am :
   

   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.

6. posted by john_m at July 20, 2007 9:30 am :
   

   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.

7. posted by thepinch at July 21, 2007 6:46 pm :
   

   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.

8. posted by Bob Duvall at July 23, 2007 3:17 pm :
   

   A limb fell on my patio…does that count?

9. posted by thepinch at July 23, 2007 5:28 pm :
   

   ouch poor patio mybe someone can get good deal on a patio now

10. posted by jami at July 24, 2007 3:28 pm :
    

    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.

11. posted by Lu Motley at July 24, 2007 9:22 pm :
    

    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

12. posted by john_m at July 24, 2007 9:30 pm :
    

    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.

13. posted by Cadeho at July 25, 2007 4:11 pm :
    

    I saw where a tree downtown on WEST Franklin was still down in the street the other day. And it was a small tree…

14. posted by john_m at October 17, 2007 5:53 pm :
    

    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.

    

15. posted by Jennifer C. at October 19, 2007 11:34 am :
    

    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.

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