![]() ![]() A Howard school spokesman said Monday that employees were inspecting buildings. Officials said the Circuit Court for Howard County would be closed Tuesday. Under the order, buildings on Main Street are closed to everyone except emergency workers or others authorized by the county. Kittleman signed an executive order Monday restricting access to some areas affected by the flooding. Howard County Police Chief Gary Gardner said Monday that Main Street would remain closed until officials could set up a credentialing program to allow residents and merchants into buildings once it’s deemed safe to do so. “You can get up and get going,” he said, “but you need people to be able to get in.”Īfter the flood of July 2016, Main Street was closed to traffic for about two and a half months. Sowers said the calculation for business owners will come down to how quickly the county can fix infrastructure and reopen access to the historic district. He was on the phone with a contractor Sunday night. Restaurateur Michel Tersiguel said he knew immediately that he would reopen Tersiguel’s French Country Restaurant, a longtime destination restaurant for special occasions and French class field trips. Utility workers began to restore power, fix a broken water line and bypass a broken sewer pipe.Īmid the immediate recovery efforts on Monday, the question was inescapable: Should Ellicott City, founded in 1772, devastated by floods in 2016 and now again in 2018, try to rebuild again? A crane tow truck was brought in to lift them out. Cars lay on their sides or upside down in streams and along the road. Police were searching for a Maryland National Guardsman who was reported missing during the flooding Sunday. Old Ellicott City’s Main Street remained blocked off Monday as crews inspected buildings. Miller.Residents, merchants and officials in Ellicott City on Monday began to examine the devastation wrought by the floods that coursed through the historic mill town the night before, for the second time in less than two years. Header image by Sun photographer Frank A. Scott Kramer, Howard County Government.Ģ019 ⬗ After considering community feedback, Ball announced his decision on May 13, 2019, to move forward with “3G.7.0,” a five-year, $140 million option to tear down four buildings-Phoenix Emporium, Discoveries, Bean Hollow, and Great Panes Art Glass Studio-and build a tunnel to carry future flood waters away.Ģ020 ⬗ The 2020 state capital budget includes $3.4 million in funds for Ellicott City’s Safe and Sound plan and a minimum of $8 million investment is planned over the next three years. ![]() Calvin Ball speaks at a community meeting. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball revealed the second phase of the Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan in December 2018. On July 20, 2018, Main Street was opened to cars and pedestrians and some shops reopened, although most continue to deal with the flood fallout. In June and July 2018, the post and the face of the clock were found again, damaged in the Patapsco. Homes and businesses were again destroyed, the newly erected clock disappeared, and a National Guardsman lost his life trying to rescue others. ![]() Photo by Maryland GovPics on Flickr.Ģ018 ⬗ Less than two years later, on May 27, 2018, disaster struck again, days before the town’s new flood emergency alert system was to become operational. The 2017 restored clock before it was again washed away. The flash flood coursed through many historic buildings, washing away the town’s iconic clock, and ultimately killing two.Ģ017 ⬗ Originally donated in 2000 by the Ellicott City Kiwanis Club, the restored clock was put back in place in 2017. Eloise (1975), Hugo (1989), and Lee (2011) were other vicious storms of note.ġ984 ⬗ From an editorial in The Sun from 1984 about Ellicott’s City’s resilience: “The town’s special charm lies in wear-and-tear, in improvisation over the decades, in workaday flavor more comparable to what might be found in a none too prosperous Old World community.”Ģ016 ⬗ Water again rushed down Main Street on July 30, 2016. It took out a concrete bridge and destroyed the Jonathan Ellicott home and the 1910 Victor Blode water filtration plant. The Patapsco river flowed 14.5 feet above its banks. Floods would come again in 1901, 1917, 1923, 1942, and 1952.ġ972 ⬗ The next most memorable event was Hurricane Agnes in 1972. “The sufferers by the flood are very numerous,” The Sun reported on July 27, 1868. ![]() 1772 ⬗ Since its founding in 1772, Ellicott City “has come in for an inordinate amount of disasters from floods, fires and railroad wrecks,” wrote Fred Rasmussen in The Baltimore Sun in 2012.ġ868 ⬗ Known as the Great Flood, in 1868 the Patapsco rose more than 20 feet and 43 people were killed. ![]()
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