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Texas Homeowner Solves Mansion Cliff-Hanger by Burning Down the House
Reuters ^ | Fri Jun 13, 2014 | JON HERSKOVITZ AUSTIN Texas Fri Jun 13, 2014

Posted on 06/13/2014 6:20:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Demolition crews on Friday burned down a luxury house that had been left dangling 75 feet (23 meters) above a lake when a decaying cliff gave out underneath the abandoned structure.

After a planned burn where crews set fuel-soaked bales of hay at strategic points throughout the house, most of the structure was reduced to ashes or plunged to the lake's coast within an hour of the fire being lit.

TV news helicopters circled over the house, that once had an estimated value of $800,000, for live broadcasts of the blaze, which took place on Lake Whitney, about 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Dallas.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: burningdownthehouse; homewrecker

1 posted on 06/13/2014 6:20:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Cost of demolition and CO2 tax on top no doubt. /s


2 posted on 06/13/2014 6:25:56 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: nickcarraway

Where is that 80’s song when you need it? You know the one...”Burin Down The HOuSe! by the talking heads,


3 posted on 06/13/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

Let’s blame fracking. Although it was more likely a leaking sewer or water line that caused the problem.


4 posted on 06/13/2014 6:30:01 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: lee martell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8D4AsLzlM0&feature=kp


5 posted on 06/13/2014 6:35:43 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder how California would have handled it?


6 posted on 06/13/2014 6:43:11 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: ansel12

CA would have imposed millions of dollars worth of fines, countless permits and survey visits from every government agency known to man for a dozen years after it fell into the ocean. Of course, then the owners would be fined for dumping in the ocean.


7 posted on 06/13/2014 6:52:30 PM PDT by bgill
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To: ansel12
I wonder how California would have handled it?

Any helicopters fly over Barbra Streisand, she'd file a lawsuit while sitting there on the toilet.

8 posted on 06/13/2014 6:56:30 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Gil4

That’s the one! Back when that lead singer was The King of Cool.


9 posted on 06/13/2014 6:59:21 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: bgill

I think the lake would really have complicated it in California, falling on the beach is one thing, but to go into a lake, that would panic California.


10 posted on 06/13/2014 7:02:07 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: nickcarraway

Bummer!


11 posted on 06/13/2014 7:12:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: ansel12
I bet they didn't remove the toilets from the home first.
Now they'll have to drain the entire lake.
12 posted on 06/13/2014 7:12:42 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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Time Laspe video of the burning about 8 minutes

The burn took about one hour from ignition.


13 posted on 06/13/2014 7:26:40 PM PDT by deport
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To: lee martell
David Byrne is still the King of Cool.


14 posted on 06/13/2014 7:28:38 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: deport

That erosion certainly made a bee-line towards the house!


15 posted on 06/13/2014 7:36:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: PAR35

Bush’s fault...LOL!


16 posted on 06/13/2014 8:04:35 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Squawk 8888

David Byrne is a freak that should be neutered


17 posted on 06/13/2014 8:12:51 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t build your faith; or your house on sinking sand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkMapZB8qMk


18 posted on 06/13/2014 8:23:10 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: nickcarraway
This image from Google Earth, though exhibiting some distortion, appears to show the house was built upon a bit of a ledge. The face of some of the cliffs in that area "cut back" away from the water at the bottom.

Latitude and longitude of the house is 31.904060, -97.408800.


19 posted on 06/13/2014 8:36:32 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

It’s a beautiful piece of Texas right on the edge of the Hill Country. Been there many times. There are also some big ranches in that area.


20 posted on 06/13/2014 8:59:48 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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