Comments on: House for sale

By: For Rent In Makati

For Rent In Makati — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:14:23 +0000

I saw this blog from Facebook (one of my friends posted it). After checking your article, I of course clicked Like then shared it. More power.

By: CANDILYNN

CANDILYNN — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:39:14 +0000

THIS ISN’T FROM KATRINA ITS FROM IKE IT HIT GALVESTON 9/13/08

By: Rhianna

Rhianna — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:51:08 +0000

This house is in Galveston after IKE hit. I am born and raised 20 mins from Galveston in League City. The person who told the story about how the lady was tired of her house being destroyed by hurricanes is true. Not all beach house front doors face the beach. As the picture clearly shows her patio’s are facing the beach. Also not all beach house are on the front row.
IKE was absolutely intense. For those of us who lived thru it now have awesome stories to tell. Days/weeks w/o power. Gas shortages.
There is still damage every where I go in the League City/Alvin/Dickinson area. We have rebuilt and are cont-ing to do so.
Thanks for all the support from the rest of the country. We crazy Texans to appriecate it.

By: dude

dude — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:56:09 +0000

dude i live in houston and went through the WHOLE hurricane with no POWER for 3 weeks

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:05:30 +0000

It would be along the lines of my typical callers…

By: She

She — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:00:26 +0000

There’s an awesome Indian restaurant in Glendale, too.

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:20:50 +0000

Hmph. That figures. The damn Internet didn’t show up for court.

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:36:37 +0000

No, seriously? She threatened to sue the INTERNET?????

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:06:47 +0000

Leave LA alone!! You’re to even have visited LA you BASTARDS!

/chris crocker

No really though, the Getty Center and the Farmer’s Market are really great. There’s also this little Moroccan place on Pico that’s fantastic.

By: UKSponge360

UKSponge360 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:40:04 +0000

Oh, this is an architecture WIN for sure

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:10:06 +0000

I think it’s been moved… who wants a house NOT facing the ocean?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:19:22 +0000

Holy shit. I think that’s my grandparents’ house… They were one of the only ones still standing after katrina.
They had their basement/ foundation redone before the hurricane… The city bought it and now they’re pretty rich.

By: caitlinicus

caitlinicus — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:14:31 +0000

they painted this thing the other day.
it was really sad.
EVERYONE knows it as the yellow cabin…
now it’s an awkward grey-ish color.

By: ladykitteh

ladykitteh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0000

Yeah, I’ve always wondered why so many houses in the USA are simply wooden constructions without actual concrete foundation (as is usual when building a house here in the Netherlands), especially in areas where tornadoes or earthquakes are frequent. Sure, it’s quick and easier, but it always kind of reminds me of the story of the Big Bad Wolf. A huff and a puff and it’s gone!

By: cherry

cherry — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:44:28 +0000

LOL

By: Fist

Fist — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:11:24 +0000

I lived through the hurricane. I was just outside the evac. zones (I live in the Galleria area). Ive actually seen this house as I work for the goverment. Bolivar peninsula is still recovering.

By: charro

charro — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:06:51 +0000

I concur.

By: EtymologicalDisaster

EtymologicalDisaster — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:43:30 +0000

That is assuming, of course, that this house is in the same location as it was prior to the disaster.

By: Bitter's Chef & Contractor

Bitter's Chef & Contractor — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:03:45 +0000

Reinforced concrete pier footings rather than wood timber stilts, engineered lumber joists, hardware ties from foundation to rafters, shear panel walls . . .

. . . these are a few of my favorite things.

By: The Muse of Fire

The Muse of Fire — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:03:21 +0000

I have a little trouble laughing at it, so I’m laughing at the comments (especially the “front row housing” story). My wife and I lived on the north side of Galveston and our house was whacked when the eyewall passed over and the winds shifted. House was later demo-ed.

But, yeah, you have to laugh at this sometimes to keep your sanity.

By: The Muse of Fire

The Muse of Fire — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:00:15 +0000

My job in Galveston took me into Crystal Beach at Rollover Pass (where this house is at) and this house is *still* the only house around. Swear to God, this is not photoshopped.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:53:03 +0000

I kinda thought he was joking but now I wish that he is serious because I hope with all my heart that he calls Diss for legal advice.

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:59:52 +0000

I’ve only VISITED L.A and I don’t blame you for that

By: ay dios mio

ay dios mio — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:57:46 +0000

Really? I feel so special getting to see something new and original

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:52:31 +0000

I live where only one hurricane has gone before. I, too, think that anyone living on any coast is asking for it. But it’s still Texas

By: Micky

Micky — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:56 +0000

Yes. Most beach houses have stilts underneath, instead of foundations. It’s to accommodate for rising water, should it get high.

However, doesn’t do much to save you from 90-150 MpH winds ^.^

It’s kinda sad to see this picture, but also amazing. All the damage that storm did, and here it made it out okay!

By: Sharon B.

Sharon B. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:10:25 +0000

We live on the north side of Houston, and my husband grew up near Galveston. The destruction from the hurricane was horrific, but I was just there last week, and they’ve really started coming back. You’ve got to laugh at the picture though, otherwise you would cry.

By: Marekatt

Marekatt — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:44:06 +0000

They can roll around all they want, they won’t break anything! (And a change of enviroment is always good).

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:35:57 +0000

I meant… yeah.

By: Pennywise

Pennywise — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:34:26 +0000

One does what one can to bolster the self-esteem of one’s progeny.

If I traded you for shit, I would lose the container I brought you
in.

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:31:33 +0000

Even if he was… I’ve never met a real estate troll before…
Do you think they’re the higher-paid middle class trolls?

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:30:57 +0000

That’s a good one, daddy.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:29:28 +0000

George, were you trying to make a joke? Maybe a reference to Mrs. Palin’s recent threatened legal action against the interwebz? Am I REALLY reaching here because you are serious? If the latter is the case, well…HAHAHAHAHA!!

By: Pennywise

Pennywise — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:27:06 +0000

They all float down here, dissi…

By: Pennywise

Pennywise — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:26:36 +0000

You can also call him trogloditical herpes-pustule-gor in a pinch.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:26:11 +0000

Eh, he means he’d be forced to cold-call and annoy about 6 attorneys in the Houston/Galveston area and pester them about whether there’s anything he can DOOOOO about this. Which unless he took the picture and owns the rights to it, or is, say, visibly standing naked on the porch and it was captioned to make fun of him, I’m going with “probably not” and if he called me would add “Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? How is this hurting you in ANY way?”

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:23:20 +0000

Just so you know George, the names Ty-gore, Iggler, TROGDOOOOR, and Tyler are aliases for me around here, so just know they’re not talking about you in code, okay?
By the way, why would you SEEK legal action, you could just head to a courthouse, rather than TAKING legal action against the site?

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:07:09 +0000

-hugs froofrou- cheery up!

-gives cherry pie-

By: Igloo McCoy

Igloo McCoy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:03:52 +0000

Hi George. I’m Igloo, that’s Igor. Welcome to the internet. You must be new.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:36:27 +0000

When I lived in California, I had a house on the east side of the San Andreas fault. There is a section of the fault they call the Palmdale Bulge and it was predicted that if it ever let go, everyone in the area would have beach front property. For 20 years I prayed that it would happen. Not because I would end up with beach front property, but because it would mean L.A. finally dropped off into the ocean.

By: CK159

CK159 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:20:23 +0000

That roll around and hit into things without breaking every time another hurricane comes by…

I’ll take 2.

By: drive-by commenter

drive-by commenter — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:19:03 +0000

Thanks for the information. But I don’t understand the part about “used to be on stilts.” Are you saying this house FELL OFF its stilts in the storm and landed upright and (relatively) unscathed? That would be pretty amazing.

I am thinking steel frame.

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:37:36 +0000

Ah yes. My uncle used to live in Corpus Christi. USED to. While he lived there we had a name for him: Batshit crazy.

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:35:51 +0000

“I don’t know about this front row property thing anymore. I just went for a swim and found somebody’s roof.”

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:34:27 +0000

See, now, that cracked me up.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:32:31 +0000

You’re right. I’m sorry for being a troll, Cosman.

By: Cosman246

Cosman246 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:29:56 +0000

As in, PunditKitchen. Not the house.

By: Igor the Vigorous

Igor the Vigorous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:28:24 +0000

This is a picture of me not caring about a picture that’s all over the internet of your house.
It’s one picture, for God’s sakes, and you could easily be lying. Real estate troll? How original.

By: Cosman246

Cosman246 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:27:39 +0000

Thanks. This place has changed a lot since I was last here.

By: mothergoose

mothergoose — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:27:34 +0000

Good news-bad news FTW!!!