Once again, something grim to start your week off with! This one is perfect for those of you who find people a bit too much to deal with (and who don’t care about, say, dying in a fire).
Found By: Colleen
Loveliest comment, by anodean: Day 17, ZA
I’ve moved all available food stores into a vacant house I found on a pre- apocalypse real estate listing. Indistinguishable from its neighbors, it turns out to have been internally fortified – and with nothing to have attracted human habitation here since long before the Zombies came, I have at last a safe refuge from which to evaluate my situation.
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It’s in Detroit. Best case scenario, you die in a fire.
Wow it’s less than $10,000!!! But it’s in Detroit, otherwise I’s go for it!
What I love is that the bars are crooked…like they were hung under pressure.
It’s hard to barricade the windows level when you’re facing a zombie horde.
They’re only protecting against larger thieves… the skinny ones can still easily fit through the gaps in the middle.
Maybe they’re leaving themselves a gap to escape in case of fire. You know, if you’re desperate enough…
That is the most ghetto installation of window bars I’ve ever seen. Oh wait, Detroit. Nevermind!
Day 17, ZA
I’ve moved all available food stores into a vacant house I found on a pre- apocalypse real estate listing. Indistinguishable from its neighbors, it turns out to have been internally fortified – and with nothing to have attracted human habitation here since long before the Zombies came, I have at last a safe refuge from which to evaluate my situation.
Brilliant! : )
Sadly Detroit really is something I don’t know that we have anywhere else in the US. If you’ve never been I don’t think most Americans have any kind of concept of a place ‘in their own backyard’ that looks like war hit it.
Otherwise I’m way into that china cabinet and wood floors. I bet there’s all kinds of hidden gems in the D that will never get big exposure before the zombies come.
The loss is heartbreaking, and yet still part of a greater sense of hope, to me. The plan to return the land to being land seems like a wise and ultimately hopeful and helpful solution.
Who knew, when we (‘we’ – I’m still to young for that!) built with such great skill and ultimately well-fulfilled dreams – that all such works must still come with an expiry date? But now, having received the lesson so forcefully, perhaps we can hope to build in the future with a better sense of planning how it will end as thoughtfully as how it will begin and go on – and be better for it.
It’s amazing how the prices change;
$500,000 Colonial home (833 Whittier),
$175,000 Munster Family style (1172 Yorkshire) ,
$95,000 four bedroom English tudor (4382 Kensington),
$6,500 three bedroom brick Colonial (10010 Greensboro),
$2000 duplux unit with two properties (13910 Mayfield).
$1900 (13410 Greinier Street),
$1000 3 bedroom part wooden/part brick frame (12431 Laurel Street),
$900 3 bedroom (12772 Wilfred Street).
Sad to think all these homes were where families grew up together once.
>Sad to think all these homes were where families grew up together once.<
I hear you. But remember that those families *did* grow up, and in such peace and prosperity such as the world had literally never seen. They're fine – they just don't need the houses any longer.
I guess it’s because where I grew up, houses were built from granite blocks and slate, and constructed back the 1850′s. Even then people only stayed there for 10-15 years, so you knew there had been several generations living there before you.
Whoever tries breaking into that house is in for a nasty surpsise. After they break the window anyway.
“It’s okay; we left the second-story windows un-barred in case of fire. We can just jump out!”
Burglars are disguised as ninja garbage cans and want into that garage real bad…
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13620-Wisconsin-St-Detroit-MI-48238/2136232568_zpid/
I know the word “detroitis” is not actually spelled that way, but it should be.
how bad is your neighborhood that its too dangerous to go outside and install the bars?
Maybe the purpose of these bars is to keep people inside the house, not outside it…
Burglars have it WAY too easy here! After getting through the glass, it’s just a simple matter of charging at the bars so the screws pop out of what I’m thinking is the molding (the molding molding).
Not if the bars are electrified – they are conveniently close to an electrical socket and the chandelier lamp. If anyone electrocuted themselves, the owner would say that they just cut through an electrical cable.
The line coming down from the right side of the window, is it:
* An excessively long cord for the blinds (most likely, least exciting)
* A crack in the wall
* A cord to electrify the bars
Sadly, this is probably the safest house in Detroit.
so, the bars are there to keep the people inside from getting out?