[HN Gopher] Moving House
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Moving House
Author : asyncscrum
Score : 19 points
Date : 2022-05-07 11:44 UTC (4 days ago)
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| johnatwork wrote:
| My mother in law's mom is from one of these islands, and when I
| showed her the pictures of this site, she knew the names of most
| people and their backgrounds. It was incredible listening to
| that.
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| She also said that a few of the houses as it was in the process
| of transported over the water and then resettled, were looted
| while people were told to stay away, quite sad.
| thimkerbell wrote:
| I wish housemoving was more common.
| derbOac wrote:
| For a story of this going badly:
| http://www.rockybarker.com/house.html
| nathell wrote:
| In 1962, the church of Mary's Nativity in Warsaw, Poland, was
| moved by 21 metres to make room for widening of the nearby major
| thoroughfare [0]. It was the first moving-of-a-church operation
| in Europe.
|
| [0]:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity_of_the_...
| mateo1 wrote:
| I assume it was essentially rebuild in the new position right?
| CogniDizz wrote:
| If you didn't work together in Newfoundland, you didn't survive.
| ddoran wrote:
| The Shipping news [1] (Pulitzer and National Book Award winner)
| featured a house being moved over ice and Oscar and Lucinda [2]
| (Booker Award winner) featured a glass church being moved on
| water, as did their respective movies.
|
| [1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7354.The_Shipping_News
| [2] -
| https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/316496.Oscar_and_Luci...
| jeromegv wrote:
| You can google "bayanihan philippines" on Google Images and also
| see some impressive photos of people moving houses.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=bayanihan+philippines&client...
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