"Gooooood Mooooooorniiiinnnnng ____________ family."
One lucky family in the Houston area will hear their name in this sentence tomorrow morning as Ty Pennington, ABC and the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team knock on their door and let them know they have been chosen for a new home.
If you haven't heard of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EM: HE), each episode of this reality show builds a new home for a deserving family in only one week. The Houston area home is located in League City (I'm 99% sure) and the family will be notified on January 7th. One week later they will "move that bus" and see their new home. You will be able to take a shuttle bus to the location to view the build in progress. This will be the largest house the show has ever built. The builder's website has a schedule of events as well as a Facebook page and Twitter stream where you can follow along. Much more information will be released after the family has been notified.
There are also many opportunities to volunteer if you want to be directly involved. The money for the house, furnishings and everything else that the family will receive is all from community donations.
I've heard that it's in either Seabrook or Kemah, on the water, a house that was destroyed by Ike. Both towns were hit hard by flooding.
Posted by: Sarah | 01/06/2010 at 11:58 AM
Well find out for sure tomorrow. Exciting!
Posted by: laanba | 01/06/2010 at 12:02 PM
If the family could not afford insurance with this house before Ike (I'm guessing that is what happened because my insurance put my house back together, again), wait until their property value, taxes, and insurance quote sky rockets.
Reality check time folks. I guess this makes 'good' TV...
Posted by: mannedspace | 01/13/2010 at 09:13 AM