Dramatic collapse of Connecticut house caught on video – NBC New York

A single mom in Oxford is attempting to determine easy methods to choose up the items after her house collapsed on account of Sunday’s historic rainfall and flooding.

The house on East Hill Highway sat subsequent to a small creek that changed into a raging river on Sunday.

House owner Randi Marcucio mentioned she watched helplessly because the water saved rising.

“Sunday afternoon was any wet Sunday afternoon after which issues simply began occurring. The water received sooner and received larger and earlier than I knew it, a tree had taken out our bridge after which the deck and the oil tank and the underside half of the basement,” Marcucio mentioned.

The bottom round her house eroded and the house ultimately caved in. The dramatic second the home collapsed was caught on video by a neighbor.

The street has additionally been washed out and several other individuals who stay on the road are stranded with no energy, Marcucio mentioned. They’ve been strolling by way of the woods to get out and in of the neighborhood.

Marcucio, an emergency room nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, mentioned her 3-year-old son was not house on Sunday, however was along with her dad and mom that day.

She mentioned the previous couple of days have been a spread of feelings for her.

“I am glad the group is coming collectively to assist. I am glad that every one of our lives right here on this hill have been spared. I am unhappy for my loss and the opposite individuals in surrounding cities which have suffered this travesty as properly.”