Extreme Makeover Part 3

Madi and I went to Chapman Sunday to see the work and get a little viewing experience of the process. We drove into town and I really didn't want to park and load Madi up on the bus....so I took the chance that maybe I could park on a side street and walk over. So, for the first time, I got to see the damage that is still there. The grade school and high school had windows still shattered, no roofs, and even parts of the buildings gone. Just up the street, were the trailers lined up being used for classrooms with the teacher's name in the window. There was a church that had it's sanctuary ripped open and only two walls were left standing. And homes after homes that were still in ruin or in the process of being fixed. There were still homes with spray paint on the side with the date and time of when emergency personnel checked it after the storm. It was really sad.

Driving through town it was a sea of blue shirts. They were working on a building in the middle of downtown, they had a crew working on a welcome sign when you first hit town, and then at the house, there were hundreds of people working. When we parked, their was a man, a block and a half away from the new house, working by himself hanging siding. After leaving Chapman, I thought, what a shame. This show comes in and picks one family out of over 60 homes that were damaged by the same storm. How can they do that?

I knew there were other homes being helped. Chris and Dan went and worked at another home while we were there. But it was nice to see in the paper Monday that The Extreme Makeover team and volunteers have helped in some way at over 50 other homes in Chapman. That is wonderful!! What a great way to help get the community back on their feet.

Tomorrow morning is the reveal. I can't wait to see the show and see the final outcome of the house and the community. It is supposed to air on January 25, just days before Kansas Day, a good time to show what great people we have living in Kansas!!!

I put together the video's that Chris took and added the photos that he and I took on Sunday. All the people in blue shirts are the volunteers and the guys in red are among the five lead builders on the project. The stretch limo was bringing in "VIP's" to watch. How do you become a VIP? Aren't the VIP's supposed to be the family or maybe the hundreds of volunteers? Those would be my VIP's. Maybe they were the one's who footed the bill, who knows...Enjoy!!