Watch: Historic Connecticut flooding sends house tumbling into ravine
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell over parts of Connecticut on Monday, leading to many water rescues and mudslides.
House collapses into ravine during historic flooding in Connecticut
Video shot on Monday shows a home crumbling and eventually collapsing into a ravine in the town of Oxford in southern Connecticut. (Courtesy: Christopher Hofmann via Storyful)
OXFORD, Conn. – A home caught in catastrophic flooding that pummeled the town of Oxford in southern Connecticut over the weekend collapsed into a ravine on Monday.
Video shot from across the bank begins with the home precariously tilted toward rushing waters.
Most of the walls around the basement level have disappeared, with the few remaining walls exposing pink tufts of insulation. The main level was precariously hanging over the edge of an embankment.
As several seconds pass, debris can be seen tumbling from the home and onto the ground, and then the house begins to creak.
The creaking turns into a crash as the house collapses down the embankment.
Looped video of the house collapsing.
(Christopher Hofmann via Storyful / FOX Weather)
"I got my son’s teddy bear … we didn’t think it would come to this," homeowner Randi Marcucio told WTNH-TV.
The rest of the video shows footage of a road washed away by rushing water, while another was completely submerged by the floods.
Floods destroy a road in Connecticut.
(Christopher Hofmann via Storyful / FOX Weather)
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell over parts of Connecticut on Monday, leading to mudslides and many water rescues.
Officials said the flooding event led to two deaths of Connecticut residents who were swept away by the floods.