To hear 84-year-old Teddy J. Burdick tell the story of kindness and humanity, it was a sight to behold and an answer to prayers.

Teddy and her husband, Don Burdick, 85, were making their way to a Thanksgiving Day dinner party as invited guests of Dave and Linda Cehr. But on the way, the Burdicks' van slid off Atlas Road, and got stuck in the snow.

"We just sat there for a while," said Teddy, who could not recall the exact spot on Atlas where she left the road.

They may as well have been in the middle of nowhere, because nobody was stopping to help.

With no cell phone to call out, she climbed out of their vehicle and tried to trudge through the snow on foot for help.

But the snow was too deep on her side of the road, piled up from plowing.

"It was pretty high on my legs," she said. She had to turn back.

"I didn't have the stamina," she said.

Eventually, an older truck rumbled up and a window was rolled down, followed by a quick shout, "We'll be right back," she recalled.

"There were a couple people in there, a boy and a girl, maybe two girls," Teddy said.

Soon a blue van came down the road, and Teddy estimated that about six or seven girls, all teenagers, jumped out.

"They were very sweet girls, and all so pretty," she said. "It was so cute to see them come across the street in their warm coats and different colored shovels. It was truly a sight to behold."

They could have been angels with shovels, for all she knew.

The girls started digging them out, and others stopped to help them out, including Dave Cehr, who came looking for the Burdicks when they were late for the dinner.

With the girls digging and some people pushing their van they finally broke free and were able to safely make it to the Thanksgiving dinner that almost wasn't.

Teddy said she's so thankful to the girls and others who helped her and her husband. She didn't get their names, or can't remember them, and didn't have a chance to properly say how thankful she was for the holiday rescue.

"We had a wonderful dinner," Teddy said. "What a day to be thankful."