Missy Emerick and Jacob Fry work during a flood clean-up effort last Saturday at Boiling Springs Resort.

When Joaquin “Wook” Torrans and his wife Jennifer Bernard purchased Boiling Springs Resort in late 2015, they were met only a matter of weeks later by a catastrophic rain event that caused the Big Piney River to go way over its banks and ruin almost everything they had just invested in.

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