Mother saves her three-year-old son’s teddy bear before her house is destroyed in flood

A single mother from Connecticut was able to rescue a very important item from her home before it was destroyed by flooding over the weekend.

“I got my son’s teddy bear, but we didn’t take everything because we didn’t think it would get this far,” homeowner Randi Marcucio told ABC affiliate WTNH.

Marcucio, an emergency room nurse, bought the home on East Hill Road in Oxford two years ago, the outlet said.

But according to a GoFundMe campaign to help the single mother, “the normally idyllic creek next to her house suddenly swelled and destroyed the foundation of her home, taking all of her belongings with it.”

Flash flooding in Connecticut on Sunday, August 18, left two women dead, 65-year-old Ethelyn Joiner and 71-year-old Audrey Rostkowski, who were swept away by rising waters in the region, NBC affiliate WVIT and CBS affiliate WFSB reported.

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According to NBC News, some parts of the Tri-State region received nearly a foot of rain as severe thunderstorms moved through the area.

Marcucio told WTNH that her 3-year-old son, Riley, doesn’t know the loss they’ve suffered – and she still can’t comprehend the loss of what should have been “our forever home.”

“I don’t know how to tell him,” she said.

As of Wednesday, August 21, the family’s GoFundMe page had raised over $150,000.