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Here's a map from Google Earth showing the subdivision... or at least part of it. I believe the dirt portion at the top of the map may have once been additional section, though I don't recall any longer as I'm writing this more than a year after having explored the place and it's been torn down since then. |
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It's sort of surreal to walk through an established neighborhood and find absolutely no one at home, especially when you're doing something mundane like taking your dogs for a walk. |
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There were a few "Keep Out" and other "no trespassing" signs, but many of the homes were wide open regardless, so we really didn't pay them any mind. |
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We saw this a lot: Things set aside as though to be collected later. In this case it was window screens, but in other places we found doors or even large appliances. |
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I don't know if something was removed from here or if they were planning additional construction before the government pulled the plug on this place. |
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I can't tell whether this was the result of an accident, repair, scavengers, etc. |
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Same here. Several homes had their floors torn up pretty badly, and I don't think it was from Daddy coming home in his boots. |
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An example of the homes full of appliances I mentioned earlier. Why move them to one place though? Wouldn't it be easlier to just pick them up from the individual houses than to move them twice? |
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Another shot of the desolation. |
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Same. It's like a small-town Chernobyl. |
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Spooky. I didn't see anything like this up until visiting New Orleans after Katrina, and even then things were at least obviously damaged. Here it was as though a neutron bomb went off. |
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Another oddity: A graveyard nestled between the golf course and the abandoned subdivision. I'm not sure what became of it since then. |
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Something else odd: Poles without power lines. There were some poles that were completely downed even... |
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...like this one which hit the golf course's fence. |
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