The HOUSE on the 101
Curbed LA has been keeping tabs on it. As of my Friday night (Day 6!) drive home, it was still there, tagged, and with a “For Rent” sign on it.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News, Patrick Richardson of Castaic decided to move his house on his own from Santa Monica to Santa Clarita with a truck and trailer that broke down over and over along the way in an extreme moving nightmare Saturday that tied up traffic for eight hours. Richardson did get a permit from Caltrans to move the oversized load up to rural Placerita Canyon, the newspaper reported.
But instead of following the authorized route — from the Santa Monica Freeway to the San Diego Freeway north and eventually to the Antelope Valley Freeway — Richardson took a detour, maybe to avoid the climb over the Sepulveda Pass, according to the Daily News.
There’s a KTLA clip that you can also see on the LAT home page which shows the interior of the house, complete with furniture.
The house looks so pitiful sitting there on the side of the road. Most times it pays to let professionals handle this sort of thing. They get to be called professionals for a reason.
Y’know, the first day I saw it, I thought it was a pretty big construction-booth-headquarters. Well, for few minutes. Then all I could think of was the Wizard of Oz.
Hang on…this guy took a house on the 101, when everyone knows that the interstate freeways were specifically designed for these kinds of loads???
LOL!