She waded through ankle-deep water to her car, which had been parked high enough on a hill to prevent it from being swept away.
“The water was just rushing down the street like a big river,” Tolley told the Washington Post.īy about 9 p.m., the water had receded enough for Tolley to venture outside. The restaurant staff moved diners up to the first floor, then - as the flooding worsened - the second and the third. Soon, she said, a flash flood warning alerted on Tolley’s phone, and “all of a sudden it started leaking in the basement bar.” As the rain began, they popped into the basement bar at Ellicott Mills Brewing Company. Shannon Tolley, 45, a music teacher from Manheim Pa., told The Washington Post that she was driving through town with a friend on Saturday afternoon when they decided to stop.
"It is possible that some people may be found in cars or buildings. Sunday that several other people who had been reported missing earlier in the day had been accounted for, but search operations continued and the death toll could rise. The woman was able to get out of the vehicle, but the man wasn't.Īndy Barth, a spokesman for Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman, said about 2 p.m. The man who was killed also had been downtown in a car with his girlfriend when the waters rose and began to sweep their car away, Armacost said. Nearly every business had damage of some sort, and a state of emergency was declared.Įmergency swift water rescue teams managed to save all of the family members but the woman, Armacost said. Saturday night's rapidly moving water overturned cars and washed away lower portions of the art galleries, antique shops and restaurants that line the city’s historic Main Street.
"But we are just going to promise them that we are going to provide all the resources that we can to help them." "It’s hard to give them any kind of consolation to make them feel better today," Hogan said. Many locals told The Baltimore Sun that the flooding was the worst since Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972. Larry Hogan, who canceled an Eastern Shore appearance to be with devastated business owners, was escorted through the wreckage that remained after sheets of rain tore through the city on Saturday night. There was an overwhelming feeling of helplessness on Sunday as residents of this old mill town near Baltimore surveyed the damage from once-in-a-lifetime flooding that left at least two people dead and the city's historic downtown in shambles.
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