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Post by hmca on Feb 8, 2022 15:17:52 GMT
Nice idea, BuckSkin. There is something very pleasing about seeing them presented as a group unified by color and subject.
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 8, 2022 16:47:36 GMT
Nice idea, BuckSkin. There is something very pleasing about seeing them presented as a group unified by color and subject. Thanks. I think those houses are quite picturesque and are worth a better job than I could accomplish through a rain-specked windshield at 50-mph. I wish I could shoot them from the same location, except from higher up so that the bottom of the houses weren't hidden. |
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Post by hmca on Feb 8, 2022 17:16:56 GMT
Maybe when you get your bucket truck  . |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 8, 2022 19:32:59 GMT
This house is on the North (West) side of US Hwy 62, just West (South) of CR96B/Incline Road. 38° 54' 3.55" North Latitude 83° 45' 51.10" West Longitude Elevation: 992' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle Westbound US Hwy 62 Ash Ridge, Ohio Brown County Sunday_19-December-2021  |
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Post by hmca on Feb 8, 2022 23:08:54 GMT
Nice one!
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 11, 2022 5:41:57 GMT
This house is on the North (West) side of US Hwy 62/68, just East of the double junctions of CR233 and West of the US Hwy 62/68 split at Redoak, where 68 diverges North and Westward to terminate at Findlay; and, 62, the only east-west United States Numbered Highway that connects Mexico and Canada, remains North and Eastward. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_68en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_62Redoak, and not Red Oak, is the proper spelling of the name of the community. Note the cross gabled roof; you don't see that often as most carpenters and roofers are not up to the task. Notice the roof damage on the barn and garage. I am beginning to develop a theory about this plague of blown-loose and missing barn metal in this region. I have a few contributing factors in mind. I will expand upon this in the "Barns" thread. Eastbound US Hwy 62/68 Redoak, Ohio Brown County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 47' 10.13" North Parallel 83° 48' 12.59 West Meridian Elevation: 898' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 11, 2022 21:07:43 GMT
This house is on the North (West) side of US Hwy 62, just East (North) of Redoak and the US Hwy 62/68 split. Westbound US Hwy 62 Redoak, Ohio Brown County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 48' 55.66" North Parallel 83° 47' 21.03 West Meridian Elevation: 908' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  In this second picture, your guess is as good as mine as to the purpose of that little white building behind the house; satellite view shows a very slick path between it and the back door, so it must be quite important.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 13, 2022 6:53:47 GMT
This cross-gabled house is the only thing that will slow down a runaway truck coming into the US Hwy 62/68 intersection with US Hwy 52. To continue with our Westward trek, we are going to have to go East for the next several miles. This house is sitting at 521' and the Ohio in the backyard is 484' at this point, only 37' from being in the water. The distant treeline in the background is on Kentucky soil. Westbound US Hwy 62/68 Ripley, Ohio Brown County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 44' 29.15" North Latitude 83° 50' 33.47" West Longitude Elevation: 521' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  How would you like to lay in bed at night, trying to sleep, with the headlights of big trucks constantly playing across the ceiling; with the deep throaty machine-gun rattle of Jacobsen engine brakes and the squeal of S-cams and massive shoes dragging inside massive drums, and the chirp-chirp-chirping as anti-lock trailer brakes grab and slide massive tires against the blacktop, their path pointed straight at your front door. And then, the idle of a massive diesel engine for a few seconds and the deep positive notching sound as massive gears in a massive transmission find their new home for the launch; the cchhh-chhhhhh as brakes release; the scraping screech as the S-cams relax; the metallic groan of thick springs fighting against the torque of massive axles; the sound of the engine throttling up, then relaxing as another gear is found, throttle up and relax again, and again , and again, and on, and on, and over, and over, all through the night. But then, the wonderful, beautiful, heady smell of thick black diesel smoke reassures you in your slumber that real men are in control of these massive machines and there is no need to worry that one may come crashing through the timbers of the house and disrupt your sleep. The house has stood there for some eighty-two years through winter's ice and snow, through rain so hard it comes off the wiper blades in rivers, through fog so thick you could cut it with a knife, and it hasn't happened yet; and consider, this is United States Federal Highway 62; the only East/West highway to connect Mexico with Canada.  It would be enlightening to view the surrounding area of the provided coordinates either via Google Satellite Map or Google Earth Pro and see the partially submerged streets and deep muddy water that surrounds this community. Surely, these people weren't paying attention in Bible School when we sang that little song about the wise man and the foolish man and where they built their houses. |
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Post by jackscrap on Feb 13, 2022 7:30:22 GMT
But then, the wonderful, beautiful, heady smell of thick black diesel smoke reassures you in your slumber that real men are in control of these massive machines and there is no need to worry that one may come crashing through the timbers of the house and disrupt your sleep. I think I could deal with the noise, but diesel fumes would not bring me much comfort no matter where they came from. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 13, 2022 17:03:01 GMT
that little song about the wise man and the foolish man and where they built their houses. As long as municipalities see tax income and developers see a profit, houses and businesses will be built in flood plains. Then we all pay when a heavy rain event causes massive, billion-dollar flooding. And people scream "climate change" because it's an easy out and deflects from the real problem: idiotic planning. Happened here in 2013. A lot of downtown, upscale Calgary sits in a flood plain and was inundated after a huge rain event. There was worse flooding in the distant past when there was far less development. People desire to live inside fire-prone forests and on flood-prone rivers. And we will never learn. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 13, 2022 18:27:55 GMT
that little song about the wise man and the foolish man and where they built their houses. As long as municipalities see tax income and developers see a profit, houses and businesses will be built in flood plains. Then we all pay when a heavy rain event causes massive, billion-dollar flooding. And people scream "climate change" because it's an easy out and deflects from the real problem: idiotic planning. Happened here in 2013. A lot of downtown, upscale Calgary sits in a flood plain and was inundated after a huge rain event. There was worse flooding in the distant past when there was far less development. People desire to live inside fire-prone forests and on flood-prone rivers. And we will never learn. Liberty, Kentucky, just a few miles up the road, is a prime example. The old downtown courthouse square part of Liberty sits high and dry and all roads converged at the courthouse square. Back in the early 1970s, US Hwy 127 was rerouted - "The Bypass" - to miss downtown Liberty and passes straight through the Green River valley. Like all other bypasses, everything packed up and built anew on the bypass. Ever since, at least twice a year, the river rises to the door-knobs and shuts down the highway. They whine and mop up and move right back in like it will never happen again. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 26, 2022 2:29:48 GMT
UPDATE: Friday_04-March-2022_12:20 AM I re-edited this image; I hope I improved it.This mansion is on the West side of KY Hwy 9 and the South side of KY Hwy 1448/East Maple Leaf Road, behind Lowe's. Southbound KY Hwy 9Maysville, KentuckyMason CountySunday_19-December-2021 38° 36' 53.44" North Latitude 83° 46' 53.50" West Longitude Elevation: 941' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle  
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 2, 2022 3:27:00 GMT
UPDATE: Thursday_03-March-2022_11:10 PM I re-edited this image; I hope I improved it.This grand old house is on the West side of US Hwy 68, at about the halfway point between Mays Lick and Maysville. Satellite View shows this house to be much larger and more impressive than my angle of view portrays it to be. Westbound US Hwy 68 Mays Lick, Kentucky Mason County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 35' 2.69" North Latitude 83° 49' 40.04" West Longitude Elevation: 878' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle 
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 2, 2022 7:09:36 GMT
UPDATE: Thursday_03-March-2022_10:53 PM I re-edited this image; I hope I improved it.This two-story house is on the West side of US Hwy 68, North of Mays Lick. THIS barn is on the same property and is on the South(left) of the house. The house fronts on the old highway 68 which is now KY Hwy 2514. I bet it is a lot safer to be able to access one's home and property from a seldom-traveled old road than to fight the traffic on the new road. Westbound US Hwy 68 Mays Lick, Kentucky Mason County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 32' 38.99" North Latitude 83° 49' 28.51" West Longitude Elevation: 860' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle UPDATE: Friday_04-March-2022_6:35 PM I noticed this house has strayed from the typical Georgian Colonial design; and, I believe this has occurred due to a remodel. If you look closely, you will see that the right side does not match the left, in that it has three narrower windows instead of two; and, those shutters are black; whereas, the shutters on the left side are green like the roof. I am sure there is a story behind that.  
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Post by BuckSkin on Mar 5, 2022 0:20:30 GMT
This house in just South of Mays Lick, on the West side of US Hwy 68, across the highway from the cylindrical water tower. Westbound US Hwy 68 Mays Lick, Kentucky Mason County Sunday_19-December-2021 38° 30' 18.24" North Latitude 83° 51' 1.73" West Longitude Elevation: 963' Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle After looking at hundreds of examples, I have decided the original structure of this house style is Georgian Colonial and a variation of the Georgian "Five plus Four and a Door" design; in that, instead of having five upstairs windows, the center upstairs window is a door. Compare this house to THIS ONE and also THIS ONE; and also, take note of the gable ends.  When I got to comparing this house to the one with a green roof, I noticed the house with the green roof has strayed from the typical Georgian Colonial design; and, I believe this has occurred due to a remodel. If you look closely, you will see that the right side does not match the left, in that it has three narrower windows instead of two; and, those shutters are black; whereas, the shutters on the left side are green like the roof. I am sure there is a story behind that. |
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