Ellicott City, Maryland

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  rrickky (guest)

  licott City was devastated by flash flooding from a massive rainstorm Sunday, just two years after a similar event forced the historic city in Howard County to rebuild much of its Main Street. Murky brown water ripped through Main Street — the epicenter of flooding in the region — in the late afternoon, submerging cars and businesses’ first floors for nearly two hours. By nightfall, floodwaters had begun to recede. The cycle replayed scenes from 2016: customers stranded in restaurants, storefronts destroyed and cars overturned. Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and directed the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to assist in Ellicott City’s recovery. “They say this is a once-every-1,000-years flood, and we’ve had two of them in two years,” he said, calling the event “devastating.” Officials said no fatalities or missing people had been reported as of Sunday evening.

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