Natalia Parshutkina was staying with a friend in Calgary's East Village neighbourhood when the flood hit. She works for a Canadian company in Russia and was in Calgary for a mixture of business and pleasure. Luckily her friend lives on the ninth floor of a highrise, so although the basement of the building she was in was flooded, the apartment wasn't.
Red Cross volunteers dropped off cleaning kits for people who had just been allowed back into their homes.
I met Natalia while she was picking up a cleaning kit from the centre just in the lobby of where she was staying with a friend.
She stayed in a shelter where Red Cross volunteers were helping out for six days before she was allowed to go back in to her friend's home. She kept the bedding.
"I will keep this for the rest of my life as a souvenir," she told me.
Natalia opened up her Red Cross cleaning kit. Inside the kit is a mop as well as other cleaning supplies.
Most people in the building lost power for at least a week and all the food in their refrigerators and freezers spoiled. Natalia will use the kit to clean her fridge.
Natalia says thank you to all the Red Cross volunteers from across the country who have been helping out!
