Have you ever watched the show, "Extreme Home Makeover"? It's not your typical home design show. Every show features a deserving family who has faced tough circumstances. The families typically are living in delapitated or inadequate homes for their family situations.
The well known, Ty Pennington and his cast of designers are featured in each show. In every show, the family is typically sent on a vacation while the crew of builders, contractors and designers rebuilds the home. The crew has a time crunch of one week to complete the massive project which sometimes includes other elements such as community centres or other additional projects that have meaning to the family.
Extreme Home makeover happens to be my favourite show. It's the only TV program that I will try to watch every week. This Sunday's episode was a two hour special. The team went to the town of Chapman to help the Tutwiler family. The father of the family was shot in the neck by a sniper in iraqu while on duty there. He survived the ordeal only to be caught in the tornado that devastated the town of Chapman. Since the family of seven could not afford to rebuild their home, Extreme Home Makeover stepped in. Hundreds of volunteers were on hand to help build them a home. The team also helped out several neighbors, giving one lady a yard full of flowers, another family some furniture for their home and yet another were given help to finish their own rebuilt home complete with furnishings. This is an "extreme" demonstration of people coming together to make a difference to this tight knit community.
The video is not a clip of the Extreme Home Makeover show, but a news piece on the makeover that show's designers, workers and volunteers worked on in Chapman.
"It's not what happens to you...it's what you do about it that makes the difference." ~W. Mitchell~
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