Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Red-headed ‘angel’ swept away in High River flood

Scott and Amber Rancourt on their wedding day, July 30, 2011. The 35-year-old woman died in a flash flood Thursday on the Highwood River.
Red-headed ‘angel’ swept away in High River flood                                                                                                                                                                           By Gwendolyn Richards, Calgary Herald: A fiery redhead, an angel who was larger than life, Amber Rancourt was an explosion of personality in a petite parcel.
“She was bigger than a crateful of dynamite in a tiny package,” her husband, Scott, said Tuesday.
He chooses his words carefully, saying little but easily conveying his love for the woman he married two years ago and lost Thursday to a flash flood on the Highwood River.
“I only got a short time with her but it was a lifetime. No one opened my heart up the way she did,” he said.
Nearby, the Highwood was still running fast and high, muddy waters churning past — a reminder of the unexpected tragedy — as Scott shared stories of his “fiery little angel.”
“She took me under her wings and tried to keep me safe.”...Continue reading...

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