They all made it out safely, but she said will never get over that. Several of her young employees were trapped in the coffee shop by the floodwaters in 2016. “I’d never forgive myself if anything happened to one of my staff as a result of a flood,” Owner Gretchen Shuey said.Įver since the 2016 flood, Shuey has lived in constant fear and anxiety triggered by every rainfall and every radar image of a storm, she said. The owner of Bean Hollow, a coffee shop on Main Street, posted on Facebook that the store will not be rebuilding again on Main Street. “It’s hard after losing everything the first time and expecting it to never happen again, it’s unimaginable,” he said. He knows some of the business owners will not be rebuilding and said he doesn’t fault them for that. He is leaving Main Street since he is getting married in July and moving into a house. “The whole lower Main Street is like one big family,” Denzer said.ĭenzer has only lived on Main Street for three years, but he has been through both floods. Ellicott City businesses debate rebuildingĪlthough he did not lose anything in the flood, it is still emotional since this is such a close community.
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Residents will get first full day on Sunday in historic Ellicott City since flood.scales back access to Ellicott City’s Main Street Nothing was going to stop it,” Denzer said. “I couldn’t believe it was happening again. He was in his third floor apartment on Main Street when the flood hit. Rob Denzer helped with the clean up on Sunday. Her husband Jon Sandler added, “There’s an emotional toll. Many business owners she talked to seem to say they are not going to rebuild. That’s just for infrastructure and not businesses. Very preliminary damage estimates for Main Street are at $10 million. Sad stroll down Main Street in Ellicott City one week after the flash flooding. “It’s really sad and the street really had just really come back,” she said.
She said before this latest flood everything was nice again and the businesses owners were doing well after rebuilding from the July 2016 floods. So we had no idea that this could happen again.” “We through it was a great investment when we bought five years ago. Kay Sandler said their future in unknown at this point. The rainstorms kept business owners like Kay and Jon Sandler, who own a title company called Lawyers Advantage Title Group, from getting back on their feet. He said they were not concerned about flash flooding with Sunday’s storms, but they were concerned about lightening and about possible areal flooding. “We’re doing everything we can to give the people as much time as we can allow them down on Main Street, but we have to ensure their safety first,” said Miller. Massive flooding ripped through Ellicott City, Maryland, Sunday evening following heavy rains and storms. Photos: Massive flooding rips through historic Ellicott City Main Street residents and business owners were supposed to have the entire day Sunday in the restricted damage areas to begin the cleanup process but rainstorms cut the day short. Very preliminary damage estimates for the recent Main Street flooding are at $10 million - which would be reserved just for infrastructure and not businesses, said Mark Miller, a Howard County spokesman. Last Sunday floodwaters swallowed up Main Street, leaving behind a wave of destruction and one person dead, just two years after a similar flooding in the historic city. Anyone granted access was asked to keep volunteers down to 10 people maximum. One week after the Ellicott City flooding, the city’s cleanup progress is being hampered by rain that just won’t go away.Įarlier on the city’s first official cleanup day Sunday, officials announced they were scaling back access to Main Street due to rain being in the forecast.
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