I worked security for the show when it was in my hometown. There were plenty
of messups and hurry up and fixes. Like walls that were 3-4 degrees out of
plumb in one bathroom. The tile workers refused to tile it because they
couldn't make it look right. Had to rip out the bathtub and wall, replumb the
wall, new sheetrock, etc.
They ripped out a water main one day also, was repaired in 25 minutes.
There were many times that EMHE folks tried to railroad our police/fire/EMT
folks into doing things that weren't legal. Our Mayor, Fire Chief, and Chief
of Police wouldn't have any of this. They had to threaten several times to
shut the whole operation down.
The family's story is also suspect. Many people believe the Mother is a large
mooch, and just lives off of donations and expects people to be generous to
her. Her kids are the biggest trouble makers (son should be in jail) and
they had to delay the show several weeks due to things the son said and did.
After being back stage one of these, I find it hard to trust what happens. The
show wrecks lives of everyone else in the neighboorhood. Not to mention, they
put a $400,000 home in a average $70,000 home neighboorhood. How will that
house ever sell? No one who could afford it will want to live in a
lower-middle class neighboorhood.
Just my $0.02
Luther
~
~He (sorta) mentioned Extreme Makeover Home Edition below, so --
~
~I had the wonderful opportunity to work on the house that will be
~featured on the show next Sunday evening. The builers contacted our
~local woodworkers club to get some volunteers. I build furniture and
~such, so got drafted to build a piece of furniture and the mantles over
~the fireplaces. It doesn't look like they show too much of the people
~doing work on stuff, but it might be my international television debut!
~The family has 2 little twin girls, both with leukemia, were living in a
~ratty old trailer about 5 mi west of Nowhere, TX (you go through there
~on the way to the site) in a little farming community south of Houston,
~and were having a pretty rough time. The community nominated them for
~the show, and lots of local people turned out to work on the site. They
~were all really excited to see this being done for a very deserving family.
~
~It was amazing to be around while they were doing this project. I went
~down Th afternoon (like Jan 18th-19th or so?) to meet with the
~organizers, they were scraping the lot and packing sand at that time.
~Fri morning 6AM the foundation was set and the first floor walls were
~going up (pre-built off-site). By 3PM the first floor was done, 2nd
~floor deck was up, and 2nd fl walls were going up, plumbers,
~electricians, and sheetrockers were on the first floor. By Sat AM the
~house was fully enclosed, roof shingles going on, painted, stone going
~up. It was amazing to see controlled chaos producing something that
~fast, and doing a good job of it too. Had mostly good weather except for
~Sunday, it rained a fair amount but work proceeded in and out. They
~turned the house over on Tues to the family. I had to go out of town so
~missed Mon and Tues, but while I was there it was lots of fun.
~
~So if anyone watches the show, look for a tall guy sorta with a beard (I
~keep it cut close), working in the Arts tent. I might be on a short
~spot, as I had a bit of a conversation with one of the Talents while I
~was cutting mortises in a mantle. In any case you will surely see my
~mantles. The Brit guy Ed was really nice, and actually did a lot of
~furniture work with us in the tent. The other Talents were a bit, uh,
~much, but I guess that is show business.
~
~I have a bunch of pics I'll load to my web site next week, they wanted
~me to wait til after the show was on.
~
~--R
~
~redghost wrote:
~
~Get that woman on Extreme Home makeover. See what sort of totally
~messed up deal she can do then!
~
~On Monday, February 13, 2006, at 09:14 AM, Smith, Todd wrote:
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