On Monday, anxiety had turned to gratitude for Maria Otting and Thomas Koppel.

91裸聊视频淚t was really like angels came to help us,91裸聊视频� said Otting Monday, her voice catching with emotion.

She is referring to all the people who came to help save her family91裸聊视频檚 home in Silver Creek, which was overwhelmed by the high water of the adjacent Salmon River.

It all began Friday evening when a neighbour called to let them know water was coming into their back field.

91裸聊视频淲e didn91裸聊视频檛 realize how bad it was going to be,91裸聊视频� Otting says, explaining that they raced up to the Silver Creek Fire Hall to fill sand bags. Although they91裸聊视频檇 picked up some the week before, they really didn91裸聊视频檛 expect to have to use them.

Coming back, they put up a wall, but realized, 91裸聊视频淥h my goodness, this is coming really fast.91裸聊视频�

It all happened within a couple of hours, she says.

They kept sandbagging till one in the morning, hoping it would hold.

However, when they looked out at 5 a.m., their entire front yard 91裸聊视频� in the 500 block of Salmon River Road - was flooded, like a lake.

91裸聊视频淭he flower boxes were floating and it was starting to come into the house,91裸聊视频� Otting says, explaining their storage room was filled with water.

She turned to the Internet, asking for help via websites such as Shuswap Everything Friendly Goes, Salmon Arm Buy and Sell and her own Facebook page.

91裸聊视频淲e were just panicking.91裸聊视频�

She explains that her extended family lives with them, so they were all in the same predicament.

But the community quickly responded, with people bringing equipment, truckloads of sand and help galore.

One man who she didn91裸聊视频檛 know had posted that if anyone needed help, just ask. He was true to his word.

One friend brought five young Mennonite men, 91裸聊视频渨ho worked like horses.91裸聊视频�

Even a friend who restores fire trucks brought a pumper, but it got stuck in their yard when a bank gave way. Getting it out was another project altogether.

Otting recites a long list of people who came to help.

91裸聊视频淩eally, just the people coming together is the overwhelming moral of this story. This community is just amazing, Everyone helps each other and cares about each other.91裸聊视频�

Their barns are full of things they91裸聊视频檒l lose, but Otting views it philosophically. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 just stuff, it can be replaced. We will have to have a big throwing-out party.91裸聊视频�

She said they91裸聊视频檙e running a dehumidifier in the house, are bleaching and cleaning now and will have to replace drywall.

Compared to what some people have been going through, she feels lucky.

91裸聊视频淲ith the devastation over the whole area, I feel more of a fortunate person with minor damage. I91裸聊视频檓 praying everybody has help.91裸聊视频�

Otting notes that a person who stores a boat at their place is now stuck on the other side of the Sunnybrae landslide. The owner was hoping to get their boat in order to escape via lake, but there91裸聊视频檚 no way to get to it in its now-flooded location.

Otting says her family91裸聊视频檚 concern now is the possibility of more rain and nearby bridges getting jammed.

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檙e keeping the sandbags everywhere and praying no log jams.91裸聊视频�

She again expresses her gratitude.

In Silver Creek, she says, 91裸聊视频淓verybody just shares around here, that91裸聊视频檚 how everybody is. It91裸聊视频檚 incredible, it91裸聊视频檚 how it should be, it91裸聊视频檚 like the olden days. Over everything, this is what shines through.91裸聊视频�

Next door, Gary and Alice Hucul have been working nearly round the clock dealing with the pond in their backyard and water seeping into their basement.

Their work, too, started on Friday, when they put up a sand berm to stop the water.

91裸聊视频淲e thought we had everything under control,91裸聊视频� Alice says. 91裸聊视频淲e added a few more sand bags to be safe.91裸聊视频�

About 3 a.m. they thought they91裸聊视频檇 do one more check before they went to bed. But sleep was about to become a scarce commodity.

91裸聊视频淭here was water in the basement, the water table had come up so high.91裸聊视频�

Saturday afternoon a throng of people was helping to sandbag.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 a great group of friends and people we91裸聊视频檝e never met before,91裸聊视频� smiled Alice.

With Gary in his chest waders, an old hot tub was being used to ferry sandbags over to a far fence.

Pumps and hoses were taking water across the road.

Alice, a longtime resident, said she hasn91裸聊视频檛 seen water like this at their place for 28 or 29 years.

91裸聊视频淓ven then it wasn91裸聊视频檛 this bad. There91裸聊视频檚 way more water this time91裸聊视频� I91裸聊视频檓 sure it was really brought on by that storm (Thursday night).91裸聊视频�