Moving houses

In today's Times-Pic there's a city notice of 121 houses slated for demolition because they are "blocking the public right of way." That is, they floated off their foundations and landed in a street somewhere. These 121 are listed in the paper because they can't identify an owner, so there must be a bunch more that just aren't listed publically. Some of them as listed as follows: "2435 Montecello St., found at Gordon and S. Dorgenois." So those houses floated far enough that they weren't even on the same street anymore! Wild. Today on Oprah they interviewed a family who rode several blocks on the roof of their house before grabbing onto a tree. I know everywhere else in the world people have forgotton about all of this, but here it's still going on. You just keep hearing more crazy stories.

One of the problems is that every step the city takes to rebuild, somebody has to try and stop it. Last month a group of homeowners got an injunction preventing the city for demolishing their houses, which they (the homeowners) claimed were salvagable. These were houses that were blocking streets! I admire the optimism of anyone who thinks they can move their house back to where it started and fix it, but honestly, there's just no way Those houses shouldn't be there, should never have been built there in the first place.