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RAPIDAN, Minn. (KEYC/Gray News) - Video captured a home near the Rapidan Dam falling into the Blue Earth River near Mankato, Minnesota.

The home, which belonged to the owners of the Rapidan Dam Store, washed into the river at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“It’s been a very scary and hard situation,” Jenny Barnes, whose family has run the nearby Dam Store for decades, told KARE-TV on Tuesday before the house fell into the river. She also was worried about the store, the Associated Press reported.

“That’s our life, as well. That’s our business; that’s our livelihood. It’s everything to us,” Barnes said. “There’s no stopping it. It’s going to go where it wants to go. It’s going to take what it wants to take.”

As the western side of the river bank has been washed away since early Monday, eyes have been on the home after the river washed away all the transformers and other buildings on the site.

The Rapidan Dam in Minnesota is in "imminent failure condition," according to authorities. (CNN, KARE, WCCO)

Blue Earth County officials said the home was undercut enough to have fallen into the river. Blue Earth County Public Works, Emergency Management and Sheriff’s Office are monitoring for downstream impacts.

Authorities said the Rapidan Dam faced an “imminent threat” of collapse earlier this week. Later, they said an abutment had partially failed. The river swelled after an rain pummeled the Midwest for days, the Associated Press reported.

More than 3 million people live in areas impacted by flooding, from Iowa to Nebraska to Minnesota to South Dakota, and at least two deaths have been blamed on the storms and flooding, the Associated Press reported.

Up to 18 inches of rain have fallen in some areas, pushing some rivers to record levels.