A single mother in Oxford is trying to figure out how to pick up the pieces after her home collapsed due to Sunday’s historic rainfall and flooding. The…
A single mother in Oxford is trying to figure out how to pick up the pieces after her home collapsed due to Sunday's historic rainfall and flooding.Homeowner Randi Marcucio said she watched helplessly as the water kept rising.
"Sunday afternoon was any rainy Sunday afternoon and then things just started happening. The water got faster and got higher and before I knew it, a tree had taken out our bridge and then the deck and the oil tank and the bottom half of the basement," Marcucio said. The ground around her home eroded and the home eventually caved in. The dramatic moment the house collapsed was caught on video by a neighbor.
The road has also been washed out and several people who live on the street are stranded with no power, Marcucio said. They have been walking through the woods to get in and out of the neighborhood. Marcucio, an emergency room nurse at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, said her 3-year-old son was not home on Sunday, but was with her parents that day."I'm happy the community is coming together to help. I'm happy that all of our lives here on this hill have been spared. I'm sad for my loss and the other people in surrounding towns that have suffered this travesty as well.
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