IS THIS A GOOD IDEA?
LOOKS GOOD SO FAR
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TRUCK?
THAT SINKING FEELING...
BLUB...BLUB...BLUB
AN UNDERWATER VEHICLE
WANNA BU Y A GOOD USED TRUCK?
LOTS OF KINDLINGThursday, 8:00 AM. Wind WNW, calm at present. The sky is partly cloudy with high gray clouds and the barometer again predicts rain. Roofs are white with frost this morning.
Neighbor Sherman Edwards gave his presentation, “The House
That Sank,” at the historical museum, to a packed house last evening. As Sherman says, it is a hilarious story; unless you owned the house. The photos (used with Sherm’s permission) show the “progress” of the house slowly sinking into 70 feet of water on March 2, 1977. It was being towed across the channel ice from Pike’s Bay to La Pointe, the first of four houses scheduled to be so moved. Needless to say, the others stayed on shore. The wrecker truck pulling the house was first to go down, and the drivers, luckily, jumped out. The truck was later raised by the “Outer Island” barge and its crane and reconditioned, but the house broke apart and was a total loss except for a clothes dryer brought up from Davey Jones Locker, dried out, plugged in and used for years afterward. The Outer Island is a WWII LTC (Landing Craft, Tank), the only such ship still in use, but that is another story. The Outer Island saw live fire action on this campaign, as someone blew the roof off of the pilot house while cooking wieners on a propane stove. Sherman was one of the recovery divers during the episode. Luckily no one involved was seriously injured in the entire process, so everyone can laugh about it forty years later.
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