Shade garden in ruins

On March 29, we had a tornado storm come through, thankfully we just got rain, but we got so much rain our yard was flooded.  My shade garden, that I had just started planting was in ruins.  The soil I added was washed away, along with several plants.  It is now almost a month later, and nothing has been done.  I repotted the plants I could salvage, and they continue to sit on my deck.  I have bought landscape timbers to build raised beds, but I'm stuck until Greg can cut the sides for me.  Mother nature can be cruel.