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Tuesday, May 29, 2018 –
12:57pm
A National Guardsman was swept away while attempting
to help residents of Ellicott City, Maryland, during the town’s
second freak flash flood in three years.
Ellicott City was pounded with eight inches of
rain on Sunday – an inch and a half more than the rainfall that
triggered a similar disaster in 2016, when two people were
killed.
The 2016 deluge was dubbed a “once in 1,000 years” weather
event, but this weekend’s torrential flood is believed to have been
even more powerful.
“The best estimates that we have in real time
are saying that this is a worse flood,” National Weather Service
meteorologist Kyle Pallozzi told the Baltimore Sun.
At least two separate flash floods struck the
town on Sunday, NPR reports, “shoving cars down the street and
bursting through storefronts” in the town’s colonial-era historic
centre. State governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency,
urging locals to seek higher ground.
Video footage taken by witnesses shows
fast-moving torrents of water several feet high sweeping down Main
Street:
It%u2019s happening all over again. Main
Street in @EllicottCity with devastating flooding. @CairnsKcairns @FOXBaltimore @wbaltv11 @wjz video courtesy my sister Kali Harris. (Explicit
language) #EllicottCity #Maryland pic.twitter.com/IuwBRyPRzW— Jeremy Harris (@JeremyHarrisTV) May 27, 2018
Again #EllicottCity pic.twitter.com/4nw4Rxt74k
— Hollis Karr (@holliskarr) May 27, 2018
National Guardsman Eddison Hermond, a
39-year-old air force veteran, was eating in a restaurant when the
floods hit and “went out to help a woman find her cat”, according
to County Police Chief Gary Gardner. Witnesses said he was carried
awaty by the raging waters.
Despite extensive searches by emergency
services, Hermond remains missing.
Main Street was cordoned off today as
authorities assessed the damage to homes and businesses and began
to clear the debris.
Police and fire emergency crews are
searching submerged cars. Landlords checking on tenants. Wedding
guests and others hurrying up the street, some barefoot, heels in
hand. One man passed with a cat he%u2019d just found in a carrying
cage. #EllicottCity pic.twitter.com/vH6MzlfNJ5— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) May 27, 2018
Allan Kittleman, executive of Howard County, told
USA Today: “There are no words to describe the
devastation.”
He added that business owners who painstakingly
rebuilt after the 2016 flash floods now faced a “tough decision” as
to whether to go through the process again.
“My heart breaks for them,” he said, adding:
“When you have eight inches coming down, terrible things can
happen.”
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