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

[Dan Warlick (edwf430]

Eegads!!!! Living down here in South Florida we tend to get the annoying 
generator sound for a few days when the hurricanes come through. Two or 
three running is enough but five or more 24/7 would equate to me never 
sleeping. In the words of our former pres. Slick Willy, "I feel your pain"
Dan Warlick
954-725-6331 Office
208-493-3529 Fax
954-793-3529 Mobile



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Walke" <racertod [at] racertodd.com>
To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:06 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] You'll never guess what's happening in my 'hood...


> 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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