The flooding that occurred over the weekend were able to damage the house of a single mother from Connecticut, but she was able to salvage a very crucial object from the waves of the storm.

“We didn’t go too hard grabbing everything because we didn’t think it would come to this,” homeowner Randi Marcucio said to WTNH, an ABC station. “I got my son’s teddy bear, but we didn’t go too hard grabbing everything.”

Marcucio, who works as a nurse at the emergency room, reportedly purchased the residence located on East Hill Road in Oxford two years ago.

However, according to a GoFundMe campaign that was established to assist the single mom, “the normally idyllic stream next to her house rose to completely demolish the base of their home, washing away all of their possessions.” This occurred in an instant.

According to reports from NBC outlet WVIT and CBS affiliate WFSB, the flash flooding that occurred in Connecticut resulted in the dea.ths of two women. Ethelyn Joiner, who was 65 years old, and Audrey Rostkowski, who was 71 years old, were both carried away by rising water in the region on Sunday, August 18.

According to NBC News, powerful thunderstorms passed over the region, causing some areas of the Tri-State area to see rainfall of almost one foot with the precipitation.

According to Marcucio, who spoke with WTNH, her son Riley, who is three years old, was unaware of the magnitude of what they had lost, and she is still having a hard time wrapping her brain around the fact that they had lost what was intended to be “our forever home.”

As she spoke, she remarked, “I don’t know how to tell him.”

More than one hundred fifty thousand dollars have been contributed to the family’s GoFundMe page as of Wednesday, August 21.