Jun 30, 2010
What would happen to your house over 500 humanless years?
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Jim Griffioen documents this happening to some houses in Detroit.
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Jun 30, 2010
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Update:
Jim Griffioen documents this happening to some houses in Detroit.
(Thanks, Kelly)
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I think the trees would have started growing before year 238.
Yeah, but for the purposes of the video, that would make it much harder to see everything else that was going on :).
This is already happening in Detroit. Check out this website.
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2010/06/more-feral-houses.html
This guys been documenting it.
It makes me think about how much of my house would really do that. So much of our stuff seems like it wouldn’t actually EVER biodegrade!
I’d be curious if there was a stash of disposable diapers in there that are said to take 500 years to breakdown.
Obviously this is the northern US version. Here in the South in 1 year alone the grass, bushes, and vines would have overtaken most houses!
I’m with Robyn. In Georgia, the Kudzu would take over after, oh, 6 months.
When the chimney fell I wanted to yell, “Jenga!” But didn’t because I’m at work. But I wanted to…pretty bad.
“The World Without Us” was interesting through the first few chapters and then I found it quite overwhelmed by an obvious agenda.
Also, I agree with those who question the timeline of the breakdown of a house. Here in Missouri, there is no way it would take that long for trees, grass and weeds to penetrate the house and rip it apart. Plus, what house is made so well to stay together for over a hundred years without maintenance? Not mine.
Pripyat Chernobyl has started down that road. Have a look on google earth.