The city is about 12 miles west of Baltimore.
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Amateur video taken during severe flooding in Ellicott City, Md. on Saturday, July 30, shows a group of people forming a human chain in an attempt to save a woman from a water-logged vehicle.
The flash flooding struck Ellicott City on Saturday night.
“We’ve never seen such devastation”, Kittleman said during a news conference Sunday. “In the past, it has been bad”.
Watsula cried, “God help us!” moments before she was lost to the flood waters, her brother said Monday.
The flood-ravaged historic Main St. of Ellicott City, Md., was in shambles Monday, two days after a storm-swollen river destroyed everything in its path.
A woman trapped in a vehicle during a flash flood in Maryland is now safe and on steady ground after being trapped by rushing floodwaters.
Courtney Weglein told CNN affiliate WJZ the water got so high so quickly on Saturday night that a man had to be carried to safety.
“Flood insurance was just insane down here”, she said. The flash flood was also the latest in an increasing trend of damaging heavy rainfall events in parts of the US, particularly the Northeast.
“I thought she was gonna die”, he claimed. Meanwhile, residents are bracing for more rain in the forecast and many said they are just so thankful to be alive.
In a popular video circulating Reddit and other sites, one woman was rescued by a group of individuals who formed a human chain.
“As soon as Gov. Hogan gives it to me, I will get it to the president within the hour”, Mikulski said.
“It will be months, if not years”, Mr. Kittleman said of the rebuilding.
“In the meantime, The United Way also has generously agreed to accept the community’s outpourings of monetary support to assist Ellicott City”.
Kittleman said local authorities are working to open a disaster response center where residents hit by the flood can gather information.
The Rev. Dean Cover (COH’-ver) shared his memories of 35-year-old Jessica Watsula on Monday in a telephone interview from Living Waters Chapel in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She and her family had been visiting Ellicott City when the flash flood occurred, her brother told police. Storefronts were torn apart, vehicles were washed away and roadways collapsed under the weight of the floodwaters.
Watsula’s body was found in the water about 200 yards from a bridge at the Howard County line early yesterday morning.
The other victim was identified as Joseph Blevins, 38, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, police said. The woman managed to escape from the vehicle and was eventually rescued, but Blevins was swept away. “There was four other people who were helping with everything”.
Butkus lives on Main Street, above a carpet shop, and said that about 7:30 p.m. Saturday water began rushing through his back door with alarming force.
Officials estimate damages could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The flood damage in Elliott City, Maryland, is heartbreaking and a testament to the devastating power of Mother Nature.
Kittleman said he has also called for a special session of the Howard County Council, because they will be needed to approve an extension of the state of emergency declaration he signed this past weekend. When the water went down, they walked out to find incredible damage. Rainfall that intense is a 1-in-1,000 year event for the area, according to the National Weather Service.
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He noted the watershed area was small, with streams converging in a tight area in the city. Knight tells us, at first, she didn’t realize the severity of the situation.
