Sara Arditti, owner of Still Life Gallery Find Art & Custom Framing, posted a video on Facebook of men forming a human chain from one of the buildings to rescue a female motorist, according to NBC Washington.
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Workers gather by street damage after Saturday night’s flooding in Ellicott City, Md., Sunday, July 31, 2016.
The cleanup is underway in Ellicott City, Maryland, a town devastated by flash flooding that killed two people and destroyed roads, cars and businesses this weekend. One man attempting to help is almost swept away by the current, but he regains his footing and retreats back to safety. A 35-year-old woman and 38-year-old man were killed. Soon after, the video shows a group of men link arms and stretch out towards the vehicle, eventually pulling the woman from her auto to safety.
Barth said every business near the river on the town’s historic Main Street had suffered major damage, including building fronts torn off and doors stripped away.
A surprise #flood overwhelmed downtown Ellicott City, killing two people, and causing damage to at least 25 buildings.
In Portalli’s, at least 100 people had moved to the restaurant’s second floor after water flooded into the first level, the caller said.
“It looks like the set of a disaster movie”, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman told the Associated Press.
“We’re safe”, she told the operator.
Numerous calls released came from businesses along Main Street. Both Blevin’s and Watsula´s bodies were found in the early morning hours Sunday after having been washed ashore near the Patapsco River, adjacent to Ellicott City.
The downpour caused the worst flood in the city’s 244-year history, prompting Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to declare an indefinite state of emergency in Howard County, west of Baltimore. We could have all died.
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Authorities don’t know of any other people who are missing, Gardner said. On Monday, Kittleman toured the destroyed downtown area, stating that it would require “months, if not years” to rebuild the city. “There are a lot of people that lost their apartments and their homes”. “We’re very linked together, just like they were”.
