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Lots of full restaurants and pubs there on a Saturday night. One of the prettiest towns in Maryland. Can you imagine the power of this flood? One dead, but I would not be surprised if there are more--their were videos on the internet of people holding onto cars as they were being swept away. The river is below the town, so the flash flood was from one of the feeder creeks.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/maryland/major-flooding-in-ellicot-city/284624026

This is the scariest video of all! It shows it from the start to the worst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-shmNbxAqs

It's shocking how quickly that street water went from annoying (to say the least) to deadly.

I know exactly what these people are going thru Back in 2013 my hometown High River Alberta population 13000 was flooded 80% of our town was under water including my house It is unbelievable what a disaster can do to a community We banded together and our town is now stronger than ever I am sure the people of Ellicott will come together rebuild their community and it will be stronger than before God Bless them

cak - it must have been horrible. Were you able to rebuild? Is the town on stilts now?

The historic part of Ellicott city, main street, if I am remembering correctly is in a valley of sorts, which the water funneled into. I ask about stilts because I am wondering what Ellicott City will do...

8 inches of rain fell in an hour. One more fatality-hundreds of rescues during and right after.

Some more incredible video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7VR6iSxUAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuG57kV63zg

We rebuilt you would never know our town was in a flood We put in 3 miles of dykes around the town to protect it People's houses in the flood plain were bought out and there is no more houses there I was lucky my insurance covered everything Red Cross was a huge help