23 thoughts on “Ellicott City, MD was virtually destroyed by “Milleninum Rain” flooding last night.”
Something like eight inches of rain in a few hours. Those videos really are horrific. I've had dinner in that restaurant in the video and been to Ellicott City quite a few times. Lovely little town. Was. Damn.
I heard the flooding was bad but I had no idea… Governor's declared a state of emergency for the area and that's exactly right. Those poor folks.
I saw somewhere (CNN crawl, maybe) that they had gotten 6 inches of rain in 3 hours. That's bad enough, but wasn't the ground already saturated from previous rainfalls?
I was looking at maps and stuff for that…….like did that big river Patapsco……break -out ? Those creeks around the town?…………. then read your comment about the amount………so all that rain basically fell RIGHT THERE, and the town is all small hills and valleys……..
Happened a few years ago too?
Yeah | here's the weather broadcast | while it was all going down. Just a huge, downburst cell sitting right over the center of the county.
Ellicott City's seen some street and basement flooding before, but nothing nowhere near this catastrophic, by far. They're right in the drainage basin for the Patpsco and eventually the Bay. I'll bet every one of those creeks overtopped. That flood gauge graph at the park went vertical when all that water hit.
There's so much more energy in the atmosphere now that when things happen, they happen big.
It's kind of a no-win situation for municipal government. If they designed and built storm drainage and bridges that would accommodate those kind of flows, they'd be ridiculed for wasteful spending. If they don't, they look like poor planners.
20 or so years back, South Bound Brook NJ got so flooded I think they were considering giving up on the town. River Road in Piscataway is named that for a reason, folks…
The first video has a bit of humor in it:
"we just came here to play Pokemon and get some dinner"
"that's what you get for playing Pokemon and eating dinner!"
Something like eight inches of rain in a few hours. Those videos really are horrific. I've had dinner in that restaurant in the video and been to Ellicott City quite a few times. Lovely little town. Was. Damn.
I heard the flooding was bad but I had no idea… Governor's declared a state of emergency for the area and that's exactly right. Those poor folks.
I saw somewhere (CNN crawl, maybe) that they had gotten 6 inches of rain in 3 hours. That's bad enough, but wasn't the ground already saturated from previous rainfalls?
HOLEEEEEEEEEE…………
I've never seen anything like that happen around here. That flood came up scary fast.
I was looking at maps and stuff for that…….like did that big river Patapsco……break -out ? Those creeks around the town?…………. then read your comment about the amount………so all that rain basically fell RIGHT THERE, and the town is all small hills and valleys……..
Happened a few years ago too?
Geography is destiny:
https://goo.gl/maps/isgXygkYFwS2
Yeah | here's the weather broadcast | while it was all going down. Just a huge, downburst cell sitting right over the center of the county.
Ellicott City's seen some street and basement flooding before, but nothing nowhere near this catastrophic, by far. They're right in the drainage basin for the Patpsco and eventually the Bay. I'll bet every one of those creeks overtopped. That flood gauge graph at the park went vertical when all that water hit.
There's so much more energy in the atmosphere now that when things happen, they happen big.
Holy shit, 8 inches in 3 hours is absurd. There's really no preparing you can do for something like that.
At the WaPo linked YT video, helpful commenter sez 'hey guys, need to do better water management.'
Always some asshole in the audience with an opinion.
Right. Let's see that fucker get up and fill some damn sand bags or something.
Fuck, the only water management you do under those conditions is have port and starboard lights.
Or the commenter lives somewhere where that's said to him all too often. It strikes me as an awfully specific comment for some random troll.
It's kind of a no-win situation for municipal government. If they designed and built storm drainage and bridges that would accommodate those kind of flows, they'd be ridiculed for wasteful spending. If they don't, they look like poor planners.
It drives down the property value of parcels with views of the water, which reduces property tax revenue.
Look at the storm drain system in Las Vegas. It was designed and built for those 100-year floods that seem to happen every year or so now.
Hed here sez "millenial," which probably doesn't mean hipsters with beards. But it will live in your basement.
I've been getting 1" plus downpours about every day, here. No worries about the well running dry.
We don't get that much rain in 3 years.
20 or so years back, South Bound Brook NJ got so flooded I think they were considering giving up on the town. River Road in Piscataway is named that for a reason, folks…
The first video has a bit of humor in it:
"we just came here to play Pokemon and get some dinner"
"that's what you get for playing Pokemon and eating dinner!"
Next time skip dinner.
Pokemon is life.
Saturday night, flood waters drive into you.