BARELY AFLOAT FAMILY SHIP CAME IN BUT COULD SINK.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - Ships are built to weather storms, but the massive pirate ship that stands guard over the Powers family pool - a whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. touch that was added in the popular reality TV show ``Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' - is in danger of going under in the downpours. Large chunks of rain-saturated hillside came sliding down into the yard Monday morning, sending a wave of mud around the swimming pool and into the bedroom of one of the three children of homeowners Kristin and Rodney Powers. Fire crews summoned to inspect the unstable hillside warned that more earth may slide into the family's back yard if the rains continue. ``It's huge. It looks like a meteor meteor, appearance of a small particle flying through space that interacts with the earth's upper atmosphere. While still outside the atmosphere, the particle is known as a meteoroid. Countless meteoroids of varying sizes are moving about the solar system at any time. came down and took a hole out of the mountain,'' Kristin Powers said Tuesday from her living room after looking out at the plastic-sheeted portion where saturated soil had broken away. ``If the rest of the hill comes down, it might go behind the ship and knock it over.'' The Powerses first laid eyes on the wooden ship - with its climb to a deck on top, where the family can sunbathe sun·bathe intr.v. sun·bathed, sun·bath·ing, sun·bathes To expose the body to the sun. sun and enjoy a view of Canyon Country - when they returned from a one-week, expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas in October 2003. Producers of the ABC television ABC Television may refer to:
tr.v. dec·o·rat·ed, dec·o·rat·ing, dec·o·rates 1. To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish. 2. it with new cabinets, new furniture and all the trimmings in just one week. There wasn't a dry eye in the family or crews when the Powerses arrived home from a limousine ride and removed blindfolds to see their remade re·made v. Past tense and past participle of remake. home. The once-in-a-lifetime event was a much-needed treat for the parents, whose youngest daughter, Olivia, had been through intense rounds of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia acute lymphoblastic leukemia n. Abbr. ALL Lymphoblastic leukemia occurring mainly in older adults, characterized by rapid onset and progression of symptoms. Also called acute lymphocytic leukemia. in January 2001, when she was just 3. ``It was just going to be a reality (home) makeover show,'' Kristin Powers said. ``But then they heard about Olivia, and the whole premise for the show became about helping families in need. Coming home and seeing the house - it was unreal. I nearly passed out. I just was crying hysterically hys·ter·i·cal adj. 1. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria. 2. Having or prone to having hysterics. 3. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story. .'' The heavy rains have wreaked havoc on the well-manicured back yard. Monday's mudslide knocked over the fence that separates the yard from the sloped hillside. The ship acted as a barrier between the mud and the swimming pool, but the collection of mud and debris behind the ship worries Kristin Powers. ``This was all so beautifully landscaped up here,'' she said. ``I know it will be again, but it's hard because there's nothing we can really do about this. That edge will come down when it rains again. I just don't want it to hit my pool or bring down the ship.'' Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Kristin Powers looks at the ornamental pirate ship, above, built in a home-makeover TV show, that was still standing Tuesday after part of a slope broke away and knocked down a fence, at left, behind her family's house in Canyon Country. Mud flowed mud flow Noun the rapid downhill movement of a mass of mud, typically in the shape of a tongue around the ship and pool and into one of her children's bedrooms. (3) On Tuesday, plastic sheeting covers the rest of a slope that gave way above the Kristin and Rodney Powers house, rebuilt in 2003 for an ABC-TV reality show. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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