Ms Khatoon and her children were sleeping in their hut when the storm struck.
Within a matter of minutes, 45-year-old Mina Khatoon, from north-eastern Bihar's Purnea district, lost two of her three children, when a deadly storm on Tuesday night blew down her mud and asbestos hut.
The storm, with whipping winds in excess of 100 kms an hour, killed 48 people in Bihar's Kosi region, including in Ms Khatoon's Harkheli village. It also massively damaged maize crops in the five hardest-hit districts.
Harkheli, a tiny village, where four people were killed, was the worst hit. Ms Khatoon and her children were sleeping in their hut when the storm struck. The family thought that being indoors would be safer. But the gale was so overpowering that the house collapsed within itself.
Ms Khatoon's son, Shahnawaz, 15 and her daughter, Ayesha, eight, died almost instantly. She and her third child, a 10-year-old daughter, were also buried under the debris, but villagers pulled them out in the nick of time. "We sifted through the debris but could only find the woman and one daughter. The other bodies were pulled out later," said Mohammed Nadeem, a villager, who was the first to reach the spot.
This storm also flattened thousands of acres of maize fields in Kosi, where the crop is usually harvested by June. The Bihar government says it's in the process of identifying how much crop has been damaged.
Kausar Begum, 65, from Harkheli, had borrowed Rs. 15,000 to cultivate about an acre of land. Her maize crop - now destroyed -- would have netted her almost Rs 30,000, but not anymore. "I will still have to pay the money-lender. I hope the government gives compensation soon," she says.
In Purnea district, there has been no electricity for more than 36 hours, as the storm uprooted trees and electric poles.
But for Ms Khatoon, who buried her two children in a plot next to her now-destroyed house, the light has forever gone out of her life.