11:45 a.m. update: A house placed on a trailer that was abandoned for days in the middle of a South Austin street until movers emerged from permit limbo on Monday is making its way down FM 2001 in eastern Hays County at about 5 mph, en route to its new home in Lockhart.
At the start of a nearly weeklong ordeal, AAA-Austin Home Movers removed the house last Friday from its original location on Brackenridge Street in Austin’s Travis Heights neighborhood. In transit, the house got stuck under tree limbs Saturday and was left in the middle of East Live Oak Street by the moving company while permit issues got sorted out.
WATCH: House stuck in middle of South Austin street for days
Efforts to resume moving the house Tuesday night failed by Wednesday morning, but work crews overnight Wednesday successfully rolled the house out of the Austin neighborhood.
After a brief respite at a Buda gas station parking lot early Thursday, the movers are now rolling the house down FM 2001 toward a parcel of land in Lockhart.
7 a.m update: It’s over. It’s finally over. A home that was wedged in the middle of a street in Travis Heights since Saturday bid adieu to the city of Austin early Thursday.
Engine trouble and a few road obstacles continued to complicate efforts to move the structure as it headed to its new home in Lockhart, but crews managed to get clear of the Austin city limits as the threat of rush-hour traffic approached.
The journey is not quite finished. The house is currently stopped in a gas station parking lot in Buda off FM 2001, and will make its final hop home later in the day.
Earlier: It took five days, but the house that was stuck in the middle of the road in Travis Heights has officially been moved out of the neighborhood.
Workers from the Taylor-based moving company, AAA-Austin Home Movers, successfully drove the house down Live Oak Street and South Congress around 12:30 a.m. Thursday with plans to make it to Lockhart before 5 a.m.
The house took out a few tree branches on Live Oak Street along the way, and workers had to deal with some car trouble before turning onto South Congress, but the house is officially no longer blocking the roadway since it first halted in the middle of the road on Saturday.
At the intersection of Brackenridge and Live Oak streets, police stopped all work Saturday after a neighbor called 911 when it appeared that the crew intended to cut the limbs of her heritage tree.
