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Another car a few yards away on the bank was full of mud, its trunk door open. Monday morning, three cars lay crumpled and wedged at odd angles under a bridge over a swollen creek, the banks of which had been washed away. Hundreds of rescuers had converged from as far away as Northern Virginia, officials said, and Howard opened an emergency operations center to manage its response.īaltimore Gas and Electric said late Sunday that there would likely be "extended outages" of gas and electricity service until infrastructure could be fully inspected and "in some cases rebuilt." The National Weather Service on Sunday called the flooding an "extremely dangerous and potentially catastrophic situation." The Howard County fire department warned people trapped on the Main Street to climb to the second floors of buildings as they awaited rescue. Its location in a valley, where the river converges with two major creeks, has made it particularly susceptible to flooding. The enclave grew into a major milling and manufacturing town and, starting in 1830, was the terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line.Įllicott City was designated a national historic district in 1976, according to Preservation Maryland, with more than 200 buildings that dated to the 1800s or earlier. It was the third major flood since 2011 in Ellicott City, which was founded in 1772 at the site of a grist mill along the banks of the Patapsco River. "She was so frantic because she witnessed Eddie get swept away." "After Eddie left, I saw a woman come in later who was frantic," he said. He, too, said Sunday's flood seemed far worse than the one in 2016. Most customers stayed inside, where Cortes offered refuge for wedding guests celebrating at the nearby Main Street Ballroom. Simon Cortes, La Palapa's owner, said his restaurant suffered some water damage, but its hilltop location prevented it from destruction. Police had allowed him inside his shop on Monday, where he saw thousands of dollars of rugs soaked by the storm, he said., "worse than last time."īut, like other locals, he wasn't allowed to linger long enough to bring any of the merchandise out. "Like a phoenix, it will rise from the ashes. "This is a great community and a great country," he said. Yet he is optimistic about rebuilding once more. He believes climate change is at least partly to blame for two so-called "thousand-year-floods" in two years. He'd built a retaining wall two years ago, but water had poured into his 120-year-old building anyway. Mojan Bagha, owner of Main Street Oriental Rugs, said it had taken him three months to fix the damage in 2016. Once again, many storefronts and buildings up and down the historic downtown were severely damaged, including homes and businesses that had only recently recovered from the flooding two years ago.
Larry Hogan, echoed a similar storm in the summer of 2016, which left two people dead. The massive flooding, which prompted a state of emergency declaration from Maryland Gov. "If we called him right now saying we needed help looking for someone, Eddie would be there in five minutes."Īuthorities say Hermond, of Severn, Maryland, was swept away during the flood, and remained missing on Monday. "He's that kind of guy," said his close friend, Kenneth Josepha, a State Department analyst from Northern Virginia, whose wedding 13 years ago on Monday included Hermond as a groomsman. When a woman came into La Palapa Grill & Cantina and said her cat was stranded in a nearby pet store, customer Eddison "Eddie" Hermond, 39, offered to help. But the rainstorm outside morphed into a relentless downpour, fueling what soon became a river that dislodged parked cars and flooded buildings along Main Street in Ellicott City. It was supposed to be a routine late-Sunday lunch over Mexican food.
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