Pastor says flood victim was single mother

“Whoo-hoo”, they yelled, smiling at each other. “There was 3 feet of water all across my basement and rising”.

“There are cars flying down the street”, a woman who called from the Bean Hollow coffee shop can be heard telling the operator.

Beyond the human toll, the flooding destroyed many business and roadways in the area. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who walked through some of the hardest-hit sections.

Kittleman said the money would help pay for infrastructure improvements to make the town more resilient to flooding.

The flood damage in Elliott City, Maryland, is heartbreaking and a testament to the devastating power of Mother Nature.

A small town called Ellicott City got about 6 inches of rain in only two hours.

The audio was released Wednesday “in response to numerous requests from the media”, the Howard County Police Department said on its Facebook page.

“I could be one of those people”, he said. “It has yet to be determined when individuals will be allowed to return to their homes and businesses”. He was able to get up and he, with others, made a human chain to reach Knight.

“My breath was taken away”, she said.

Kittleman said it was possible some historic structures will be torn down, while others that will be saved may look very different. The state organization is coordinating management of the cleanup effort. “It’s going to be a long time before this place is going to be a thoroughfare between Baltimore and Howard County”. They ate donated sandwiches as they collected information about grants and temporary assistance.

“We’ve never seen such devastation in Howard County for over 50 years”, he said. “We have certainly had our fair share in the United States in recent years, and any increasing trend in these type of rainfall events is highly concerning”, Bowen said. The origins of the 19th-century mill town date to 1772; it has more than 200 18th- and 19th-century buildings. Since 2010, the Obama administration has cut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s water infrastructure spending by over $2 billion.

The items are in a vault.

Ms. Watsula cried, “God help us!” moments before she was lost to the flood waters, her brother said Monday.

In a telephone interview, Curtis Brubaker relayed his wife’s Christina’s account of the ordeal. That’s when they noticed a woman was still in her auto, in the midst of the flood. A human chain rescued 29-year-old Jamie Knight from her auto in the middle of the raging floodwaters, according to a two-minute video that has spread nationwide.

Police say a Pennsylvania woman visiting the town with her family was one of those killed after their auto was caught in the raging floodwaters and carried toward the Patapsco River.

Not doing anything wasn’t an option, Barnes said.