Shhhhh…. sleepy Tree is sleeping.
Found by: Jim. This Texas residence is yours for $39,900.
Loveliest comment, by Anodean: “We’ll take the house! Honey, the chances of another plane tree hitting this house are astronomical! It’s been pre-disastered! We’re going to be safe here!”
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I couldn’t see what was going on here til I clicked on the photo in the original listing. (I didn’t see the trunk, and thought all those branches in front were growing up from the front yard!) Oh, my.
This house is only a few miles from me, too. I wonder how long ago the tree fell. It’s still green… is it still alive?? If so, I suppose it’s just possible that happened during Hurricane Ike in 2008… in which case that house has probably been in poor condition for quite some time.
Ah — I’ll add another photo, then, one that makes it clearer.
Good call.
That makes it easier to see.
Vivian, we’re neighbors!
I’ll bet that did happen during Ike and the roots are still in the ground. I have a tree like that that fell on the neighbor’s patio. We had it cut down, but it keeps growing back from the stump. Stupid zombie trees.
It’s amazing the number of people who are still dealing with Ike damage two years later. I work in the nonprofit world and the other day I was at a meeting at United Way, and sat at the same table with two guys, one from Harris County and one from City of Houston, who are still helping people with claims.
Not for me. Too much trunk in the junk.
“Roof: Composition” (Slate, bark and foliage)
“Bedroom Desc: All Bedrooms Down”
“Maintenance Fee: $0 annually”
Ha! What I was thinking, but better! *bows*
What sends more warning bells off is that there are no pictures of the inside and the outside pictures were shot in a drive-by!
ok that is strange. looked at the map. just realized that there are TWO hwys with 610 for their desination.
what is gonna happen if the northern one in Minn becomes a interstate like the TX one?
I-610 is a loop road that runs around Houston– all three-digit interstates are loops, generally as a bypass for a thru-interstate around a major city. (I-610 and I-410 in Texas are both bypasses for I-10, running around Houston and San Antonio respectively.) If I recall correctly, you can have more than one with the same number… they will just be in different states.
Of course, Houston outgrew the bounds of 610 long ago. Now it’s the “inner loop” and then we’ve got the Beltway, and now we’re growing out to a third ring road.
Out here in Los Angeles we have a 110, 210 and 710 (connected to the same I-10 as goes through Houston). I’d be very satisfied to learn that 310, 410 and 510 are sprinkled thoughout the southwest, in places like Phoenix and Santa Fe.
For three-digit interstate highways, those with even hundred’s digits form loops or bypasses for the two digit interstate they connect with (and share the ten’s and one’s digit with). Those with odd hundred’s digits are spurs off of the interstate. Around Rochester, NY, for example, I-90 is the main through interstate, with I-490 being a loop off through the middle of the city, and I-390 and I-590 running into the city more or less from it (and I-390 also continuing quite a fair distance south, to boot).
I think the three-digit numbers weren’t supposed to be repeated within a state, but probably there are exceptions made when they run out of numbers. They do certainly get repeated nationally; there are at least three I-190′s and I-290′s, for example.
It’s a treehouse!
Or a hut.
“We’ll take the house! Honey, the chances of another
planetree hitting this house are astronomical! It’s been pre-disastered! We’re going to be safe here!”Now you just have to worry about a plane.
Excellent Garp reference.
or an asteroid. would that count as hail damage?
*shudders* This brings back very, VERY bad memories of all the ice storm damage, injuries, and deaths we had around here 2 winters ago. THOUSANDS of homes looked like that and worse. *shivers* Bad, bad, bad memories.
Actually, I’d say it passed the “tree test”…looks like the roof is holding up pretty well!
I agree, it’s impressive the tree did not cave the roof in. But if there’s any kind of crack large enough to admit moisture, and if it DID happen in Ike two years ago, the inside must be a disaster by now.
For that matter, the fact that nobody has taken care of the tree by now says that house has probably been empty for a long time.