Ferrari Mailing List: Re: You'll never guess what's happening in my 'hood...

[Paul Bennett (pbennett]

Todd...what was/is the address?  I'd like to zillow it for the 'before' values.

Also, let us know when the program airs.   I've never watched the show but 
will be interesting what Hollywood does to recreate a piece of Kirkland.
p




At 09:06 PM 9/27/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>       So the people that live down the block from me here in Kirkland got 
> picked 
>to be on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  On Wednesday they found out that 
>out of 5 finalists in Washington, they were the ones that got picked.
>       By 6pm our neighborhood looked like a disaster area.  Two full blocks 
>around their house were blocked off.  The house is on the main street that 
>feeds our area, forcing all of us that live north of the site to a big old 
>detour to access our houses.
>       As the street I live on is the first cross-street north of the 
> blocked-off 
>location, they decided to stage all sorts of equipment on our street.  Our 
>extra-wide street is down to one lane with several 40-foot containers 
>lining one side, a dozen large construction work lights, dumpsters, 
>generators, front-end loaders and all sorts of other stuff.
>
>       Today they filmed the "before" shots in the morning, then *poof* the 
> house 
>disappeared.  I left for work with 50 or so of their blue-shirted 
>construction workers lining our street waiting to be called up for the 
>destruction.
>       By the time I got home, the house was history.  Even more equipment was 
> on 
>our street.  The black and gold EM:HE tour bus was parked next to my 
>house.  The street was lined with metal fencing to keep spectators off the 
>street.  There is a spectator area so people can watch the process.
>
>       This is a 24-hour-a-day operation.  They run generators all night to 
> power 
>the work lights.  Due to the equipment staged on our street, the front of 
>the house is lit up like daylight all night long - fortunately my bedroom 
>is on the other side of the house.
>       All the trucks arriving on site to deliver supplies go right past the 
>house.  They deliver stuff night and day.  If a forklift is needed to 
>unload a truck, they park the truck next to my house in the intersection, 
>unload it and run the stuff up to the site.  Just freakin' lovely.
>       You can feel the gentle rumble of the generators rocking you to 
>sleep.  The beeping backup alarms sound eerily like crickets on crack.
>
>       I'm hoping that the weekend doesn't bring out huge crowds to 
>watch.  Fortunately, the big reveal (which you'd assume would bring the 
>biggest crowds) is on a Thursday so I won't be home for that nightmare, 
>thank heaven.  I feel really sorry for the people that live next to or 
>across the street from the site, although I assume they are getting some 
>monetary compensation for all the hassle.
>
>       Pictures are at: http://www.pureluckdesign.com/makeover/
>
>       So if any of you Seattle-area folks are all hinky for that dreamy Ty 
>Pennington, he's up here.  Just keep off my lawn!
>       
>
>
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