“You have to”, one of the heroes shouted back before the man closest to her yanked her out and they both got pulled to safety.
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“That just makes it so much more horrific”, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said during the news conference.
Kittleman said it was possible some historic structures will be torn down, while others that will be saved may look very different. “Cars everywhere, cars on top of cars, parts of the road are gone, many parts of the sidewalk gone, storefronts completely gone”. She and her family had been visiting Ellicott City when the flash flood occurred, her brother told police.
Kittleman said he would never forget the video of residents forming a human chain to rescue a person trapped in a vehicle in the rising water. A destroyed red vehicle, wedged for days on Hamilton Street, was removed.
Mullendore got a first-hand view of flood-ravaged Ellicott City on Tuesday, as he and another county official responded to the Howard County town to assist with cleanup efforts.
“You’re not going to make it!” one of the rescuers yelled as they implored her to exit the vehicle.
The bodies were recovered after they were killed in separate incidents when they were carried off by the rushing water, reportedly. As water continued rising she hugged the others there and thought of her 2-year-old son. “The reality of our financial situation requires us to find ways to work together in order to curb long term spending and protect the interests of taxpayers”, said State Budget and Management Secretary David R. Brinkley in a letter to state legislators earlier this year. We could have all died. “It’s going to be a long time before this place is going to be a thoroughfare between Baltimore and Howard County”. “There are a lot of people that lost their apartments and their homes”.
Maisonet searched the area’s riverbanks for people in distress at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, after the flooding. “The water is above the door”.
“The first floor of numerous businesses are just full of debris; can’t even get in them because of the debris”, he said.
One Maryland resident says, “Within five minutes it was panic and my friend was pulling someone out of there and I’ve never seen anything like it”.
“Nobody can evacuate. There’s nowhere to go”.
“Everything funneled toward that Main Street area”.
A submerged auto is visible in the Patapsco River on July 31, 2016, after a sidewalk caved in due to flooding in Ellicott City, Md. Once a home to mill workers, in recent decades it has become known for restaurants, art galleries, antique shops and nightlife. “They’ve removed all the vehicles from Main Street, but there’s still another 17 vehicles in the Patapsco River”.
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The meteorological cause of Ellicott City’s epic flood was complex, a mixture of high humidity, unstable air, southerly wind flow, a nearby warm front and other factors as noted by the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang.
