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Extreme Makeover Home Edition After The Storm
March 23, 2006 12:01 AM by Joe Blackmon
With all the heartaches and devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina — the nation’s deadliest storm since 1928, causing nearly 1,400 deaths — the people of Biloxi, Mississippi coastline have suffered untold pain. A once-vibrant community now looks like a war zone: Casino barges traveled 800 feet into apartment buildings, while elsewhere neighborhood homes and businesses simply vanished. Now the design team of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" heads to Biloxi to rebuild some cornerstones of the community, including a local free medical clinic, and to erect a new memorial to the victims of Katrina. In addition, the show honors Jerod Murphy, a young war veteran and local hero who helped save 200 neighbors during the hurricane.
The first in a series of four one-hour specials, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition — After the Storm, Mississippi" airs THURSDAY, MARCH 23 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Designer Preston Sharp creates a poignant new memorial with Anderson construction to honor the local people who died in Hurricane Katrina. Preston asked the community to bring forth their mementos from the hurricane to incorporate into a special time capsule and form part of a mosaic to commemorate the tragedy. A candlelight vigil is held to honor the victims and their surviving relatives at the memorial’s unveiling.
Designer Paul DiMeo helps transform a demolished community clinic into a magnificent, new medical center to serve the area’s residents. While local construction workers and volunteers work hard on this build, the clinic’s staff will go on a well-deserved spa retreat. And, with the help of Sears American Dream, designers Ed Sanders and Tracy Hutson deliver washers and dryers to 29 deserving families living in a FEMA trailers.
Jerod Murphy, a 29-year-old father of two, was the first Mississippian wounded in the war in Iraq. He had just returned home when Katrina hit Biloxi, so he went to his local base, gathered a team and led an amphibious assault vehicle on a rescue mission that saved 200 people. A true hero overseas and at home, Jared’s greatest worry is that, if he needs to return to Iraq, his family — and especially his son, who has special health needs — will be left behind without anyone to care for them. Jared takes Ty Pennington on a re-creation of his rescue mission, culminating with a surprise beachside reunion and party with the some of the local people he helped save. Jerod, in turn, will receive a surprise donation to help him and his family in their time of need.
The design team for this episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will feature team leader Ty Pennington, Paul DiMeo, Preston Sharp, Ed Sanders and Tracy Hutson. The series is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. It’s executive-produced by Tom Forman and co-executive produced by Denise Cramsey.
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March 23rd, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I think if you have another show here you should look into why a lot of us are having trouble getting any help. The SBA is holding everyone up from getting any help. We are told 10 days to 2 weeks and we will get help, It has been months. We can’t even start throwing things out because nothing has been finalized yet. We don’t know when or where we will get help. Please help.
Robert Peck
William Campbell
March 24th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I think it’s awful that the govt in this vastly rich country has been lame to FIX NOLA and the GULF cities affected by the hurricane(s). When a govt shows that it cares less about their people, it speaks tomes (volumes) and is a huge embarrassment.
Some of us, your neighbors to the south (in Florida), have done all we can to send $ and other goods up your way. Seems like the people who run your state (especially that woman who was impeccably dressed during the hurricane – was that your governor?) care more about themselves (her, in particular) than the folks whose generations of families have made NOLA and the surrounding area what it was and what I, personally, hope it gets back to being, the Jazz capital of the USA, amongst other things, having spent time there back in the 1970s….
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s a racist thing with our govt on NOLA/Katrina but rather I think our administration in DC doesn’t know how to deal with the impoverished or poverty in general, as most of them were born with silver spoons in their mouths.
Had we had a woman president (one who has been a mother), NOLA and the other areas would have been almost completed regarding the reconstruction of your areas, now some 5 months (TODAY ACTUALLY) since the hurricane hit.
We are still very worried about ALL of you up there, and we sincerely thank Extreme Home Makeover, the BEST DREAM TEAM, Ty Pennington and Sears, and ABC for everything they can possibly continue to do for ALL of you.!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL! Bad thing is….hurricane season is like 70 days away. They need to SHORE UP THE GULF shore cities PRIOR to hurricane season coming.
Be well and know that TONS of people are still thinking and praying for you ALL there and some are still sending $$ from here as they can!!