A North Waco couple is crediting a renovation done on their home by Chip and Joanna Gaines on the 3rd season of Fixer Upper with saving their lives.
On Saturday night, a drunk driver turned their lives upside down. Ken and Kelly Downs were sleeping in their bedroom when Allen Wayne Miller drove his car into their home. Kelly said that a brick fireplace that Chip and Joanna relocated to the front of the home appears to have stopped Miller from driving further into the house.
Owners of a North Waco house renovated on "Fixer Upper" got a rude awakening early Saturday morning.https://t.co/Uo1GKZUV1T pic.twitter.com/i6zpO1V0QS
— Waco Tribune-Herald (@wacotrib) July 9, 2017
“The yard is built up several feet, and he hit the embankment of the yard, apparently went airborne, and like a lot of older homes, this house was built up off the ground, so he cleared the rest of the yard,” Waco Assistant Fire Chief Don Yeager told the Waco Tribune-Herald. “He didn’t hurt the hedges, but he took out the railing on the porch and went right into the window of the front room and hit an interior wall that might be a load-bearing wall.”
You don’t typically think of a renovation saving your life, but the Gaines’ work appears to have been not only beautiful, but a safety feature as well.
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Source: Fox News
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