In some areas, the water rose above the buildings’ first floors. Main Street, also known as Frederick Road, was transformed into a waterway over the weekend, as brown water sluiced through town, destroying shops and upending cars. Marked by quaint shops in the bottom floors of brick, stone slab and siding-clad buildings, the historic downtown is a major draw in this community of 66,000 people located about 12 miles west of Baltimore. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency for Maryland on Sunday. “A lot of the businesses, the first floors are gone, like they were two years ago,” he said.
The river is a major waterway that feeds into the Chesapeake Bay.īaltimore Gas & Electric said it will need to survey the damage to its infrastructure before providing a timeline for restoring service.įlooding claimed the old courthouse, Kittleman said, and there are homes on the west end of downtown whose foundations and basements are gone. Gas and electricity have been shut down on Main Street, where water ran through buildings as if it were a tributary of the nearby Patapsco River, which swelled to record levels during Sunday’s storms. The 2016 flood killed two people, when floodwaters swept away their vehicles. Witnesses returned and said Hermond slipped into the river and was carried away, said Lopez, whose husband met Hermond 20 years ago in the US Air Force.Īs rescuers continue searching for Hermond, there were no reports of deaths or major injuries as of early Monday, Kittleman said. Hermond left to help a woman rescue her cat from a pet store. Sarah Lopez was at a restaurant, attending a birthday party with Hermond when the flooding began, she told CNN. Emergency responders conducted 30 rescues Monday morning as they continued their search for a missing man, identified as Eddison Hermond. I couldn’t imagine what they went through two years ago, and now it’s even worse.” “I can’t imagine what they’re going through. “There are a lot of people whose lives are going to be devastated again, and they’ve been working so hard to come back and we just need to be there for them and to tell them … all of our resources are there to help them,” Kittleman said. Particularly worrying, Kittleman said, is a 25- to 30-foot-wide hole just north of Main Street, where the ground and road appear to have buckled under the weight of the flooding. On Monday, Kittleman said the flooding of 2018 was much nastier.Īuthorities were still in the assessment stage on a soggy Memorial Day, trying to determine exactly how much worse. After the deadly flooding of 2016, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said Ellicott City was reduced to a “war zone” and likened it to the set of a disaster movie.
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