"It's heavily paved, there's lots of narrow streets that act as very rapid conduits of water – so the flood was as much about the nature of the underlying land surface as it was the large amount of rain falling from the sky." Halverson, a geography professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, told member station WAMU: 9XifLkyTK6- zack May 27, 2018ĭiscussing Ellicott City after the 2016 flash flood, Jeffrey B. For now, he said, he's just trying to make sure his employees can find work and pay their bills. "I'm really not sure where I'm at with that," he said. But Hemmis said he's uncertain whether he can reopen. Nearly all of the restaurant's employees managed to return after that catastrophe.
It took Hemmis a lot of work - and new plumbing and equipment - to reopen six months after the 2016 flood. The water ended up being six, seven, eight feet deep, coming down Main Street." Once it came over the curb, we brought all the customers up to the second floor. "It started out as pooled around the sides of the road, a couple inches deep on the curb. Here's how he described Sunday's flood to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly: Mark Hemmis owns the Phoenix Emporium restaurant on Main Street, which was badly damaged in 2016. For many, it was a replay of the summer of 2016, when the same area suffered massive damage from a flash flood. Images and video from the scene are striking, showing fast-moving water rising nearly as high as the bottom edge of the streets' stop signs and obliterating anything in the torrent's path. if you have any news, please contact me #EllicottCityFlood /moxxJm1Sjj- Kenneth Josepha May 28, 2018 he was swept away in the ellicott city flooding yesterday around 5pm trying to help people and hasn't been seen or heard from since. ******* MISSING PERSON ALERT IN ELLICOTT CITY *******
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