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Connecticut home collapses, tossed into river by deadly storm in horrifying video: Watch
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A horrifying video shows the moment a single mother’s home collapsed and was tossed into a river during a deadly storm in Connecticut. The two-story house was seen crumbling to pieces after hours of heavy rainfall and flooding.
The video shows tables and chairs spilling out from the structure moments before the roof collapses, sliding down the embankment below it and onto the rocky bank of the brook, which had swelled up during the storm. Homeowner Randi Marcucio and her son, 3, managed to escape the tragedy.
‘The river started to take the massive, tall, tall, tall deck pillars’
“You just fall to the ground. There goes everything,” Marcucio told New York Post.
Marcucio is a single mom and ER nurse. She had lived in the Oxford home for two-and-a-half years. She bought the house on Mother’s Day in 2022. The beautiful narrow Fivemile Brook running along the property enchanted her.
Marcucio was preparing to cook dinner last week when the storm caused the brook to surge. The flooding became monstrous, turning the street into a river and washing away chunks of the dirt hill where the home rested. “The river started to take the massive, tall, tall, tall deck pillars,” Marcucio said.
“The deck started to go. The deck went. The oil tank detached from the house. Over hours, slowly but surely, everything just started to go. The basement started to go. The basement went. A lot of the basement went. And then the second story was just kind of hanging,” she added.
On Monday, August 19, the home collapsed. However, Marcucio was away at the time, helping neighbours find shelter during the storm. She later slept at her parent’s home.
It was a neighbour who heard cracking and ran to Marcucio’s house, only to discover that it was gone. Marcucio said she would not be able to recuperate her losses. The damage is not covered as she did not have flood insurance.
Marcucio, however, is maintaining a positive attitude, and finds strength in the love of her son. “He’s incredible. He’s such a smart, happy kid, and he knows something’s wrong, but he’s happy to see mommy,” Marcucio said.
“He doesn’t even really know what’s happening. He just knows that people keep showing up for him … He’s seen me at different homes, he’s seen me soaking wet. He’s seen me crying in the last day so he’s happy that mommy’s here, and now he gets to show mommy the things his ‘friends’ — strangers — have come to him with,” she added, referring to donations made by her neighbours and the money raised in a GoFundMe.
“Oh, my God. It’s incredible. You want to die in one breath and then the next breath you’re like, ‘This is everything. This is life,” Marcuico said.
She added, “I didn’t lose my life. My son didn’t lose his life. We lost our stuff. Two women lost their lives. How can I even begin to complain about anything?”
The storm was so destructive that two women were killed about five miles north of Marcucio’s property. One of them was swept away while walking down the street.
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Connecticut Sun top LA Sparks 69-61 in first WNBA game at TD Garden
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BOSTON – DiJonai Carrington scored 19 points, and the Connecticut Sun used a late 14-0 run to defeat the Los Angeles Sparks 69-61 on Tuesday night in the first WNBA game to played at the Boston Celtics’ TD Garden.
A franchise record sellout crowd of 19,125 saw the Sun storm back after they trailed 59-55 with less than four minutes to play.
Carrington scored twice in the lane sandwiched around a three-point play by Alyssa Thomas and in less than a minute Connecticut was up 62-59 with the crowd roaring.
Tyasha Harris converted a three-point play that made it 69-56 with 1:40 to go. In just over two minutes the Storm had missed two shots and two free throws and had four turnovers.
Brionna Jones had 15 points and Harris 14 for the Sun (20-7), who overcame an 8 of 17 performance at the foul line. Thomas had nine points, eight assists and 16 rebounds.
Rookie Rickea Jackson and Azura Stevens both had 14 points for the Sparks (6-22).
Carrington, Harris and Jones were all in double figures as the Sun erased an early deficit to take a 41-35 lead at the half.
Connecticut led by 11 in the third quarter but LA cut it to 53-46 entering the fourth. The Sparks scored the first seven points to tie in and turned that into a 13-2 run.
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Connecticut Sun hoping for some
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BOSTON — History will be made Tuesday night in Boston, when the Connecticut Sun host the Los Angeles Sparks in the first-ever WNBA game at TD Garden. Both teams will take the floor in front of a sellout crowd at the Garden, which will be the biggest home crowd ever for a Connecticut Sun “home” game.
“I’ve been to Celtics games and seen it full. We just haven’t experienced that, so it will be fun and special,” Connecticut guard DiJonai Carrington said after the team’s morning shootaround. “I know it’s going to be rocking here.”
“We’ve been here to watch the Celtics and seen how crazy it gets. But we’ve never been the ones on the court with the fans cheering for us,” said forward DeWanna Bonner. “I can’t wait to experience how loud it’s going to be. We’re not going to be taking it for granted.”
The Sun have felt right at home since arriving in Boston on Monday, and they’ll feel right at home Tuesday night. The 19,156 tickets sold by Connecticut mark the sixth sellout for the team this season. It’s the third highest attendance for a WNBA game this season.
The TD Garden floor hasn’t seen professional basketball since June 17, when the Celtics finished off the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals for the franchise’s 18th championship. But there won’t be much green on the floor on Tuesday, as the parquet now has shades of orange and blue, the colors of the home-team Sun.
The Sun are also hoping that they can bring some of the Celtics’ championship mojo back to Connecticut.
“It’s a huge honor. I’m looking in all the closets in all the rooms to see what I can find here,” Bonner said of playing at the TD Garden. “Hopefully we can get some of that championship energy and the vibes rub off onto us.”
The Sun enter Tuesday night’s matchup at 19-7 on the season, good for the second-best record in the WNBA. They’ll likely hear some “Beat LA” chants as they look to get the best of the 6-21 Spark.
The Sun want to be New England’s team
That the team from Uncasville, Connecticut is drawing a sellout crowd at TD Garden is just another sign that the WNBA’s popularity is through the roof. Sun players even had a tough time walking down the Boston streets, as Bonner was stopped by fans as she tried to buy a morning smoothie.
“It’s insane the different type of atmosphere here in Boston,” she said. “We love our fans in Connecticut, but here we can’t even walk down the street.”
The 36-year-old Bonner remembers a time when WNBA teams were giving tickets away in hopes of drawing a crowd. Now, she can’t even help her family get to games.
“I’m excited about it and want all our young players to take it in, but also understand that this didn’t happen overnight,” she said. “There was a time when we didn’t have anything and would walk into an empty media room.”
Nothing about the TD Garden will be empty Tuesday night. For those who aren’t familiar with the Sun, Carrington says to get ready to see a team that really makes its opponents fight for every point.
“We hang our identity on defense. We’re trying to kind of figure it out all over again with new pieces, figuring out everyone’s roles and how we mesh together. It may not look as polished as expected, but we’re going to peak at he right time in September and October,” she said. “Teams don’t want to play against us because they feel us every possession. As a unit, they’re still going to feel us defensively every possession.”
Boston doesn’t have a WNBA franchise, but Sun head coach Stephanie White hopes that Tuesday night will help solidify the Sun as New England’s team.
“It’s huge. For me, just as a basketball fan in general, to be able to step into the TD Garden. Behind the scenes, in the locker room, stepping onto the same floor as so many great players in the Celtics organization and with them coming off an NBA championship, it’s exciting,” said White.
“It’s a sellout, and we want to expand our footprint in the New England area. We want to be New England’s team,” she added. “There are going to be fans in the building who haven’t seen us yet who will be attending their first WNBA game. It’s an exciting time and continues to show that the needle has moved.”
A happy homecoming for Veronica Burton
Tuesday night will be a little extra special for Sun guard Veronica Burton, who was a star at Newton South before making her mark in the college game at Northwestern. (She is also the daughter of WBZ-TV Sports director, Steve Burton.)
Burton grew up a huge Celtics fan and said that Rajon Rondo was her favorite player. But she’s never had the chance to play on the TD Garden floor until now.
“Growing up and idolizing the players here and being able to see some championships won here, it will be really special to have my family and friends come out to support me,” Burton said Tuesday. “It’s just a surreal moment, knowing that I’m closer to home than ever before. I’ve never played here so I’m going to be soaking it in all in as much as I can.
Burton’s WNBA career started in 2022 when she was drafted seventh overall by the Dallas Wings. She was waived by Dallas in May, which paved the way for Burton to sign with Connecticut.
“It’s a dream come true and I’m grateful to be here,” she said Tuesday.
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