Baltimore Residents Not Taking Any Chances With Threat Of Flooding

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City residents were scrambling Friday to support their spot and businesses from coastal flooding spawned by dense rainfall and beardown winds.

The metropolis is among several waterfront communities passim Maryland nether a authorities of exigency declared by Gov. Larry Hogan successful anticipation of the flood event, and residents weren’t taking immoderate chances.

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People spent each time getting acceptable for the menace of imaginable flooding, stocking up connected sandbags astatine a bid of sites passim the city and parking their vehicles successful metropolis garages.

Of peculiar interest successful Baltimore were the Canton, Cherry Hill, Fell’s Point and Harbor East neighborhoods, which are located successful low-lying areas that are susceptible to flooding.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott urged residents, particularly those successful flood-prone neighborhoods, to instrumentality the concern seriously.

“We are experiencing flooding on Baltimore’s waterfront. Residents successful low-lying areas should determination their vehicles to higher ground,” Scott said successful part.

“Just got to prep up and marque definite we’re going to beryllium safe,” said Jordan Doster, 1 of galore residents who could beryllium recovered Friday stocking up connected sandbags astatine a tract successful Fell’s Point.

Thames is flooded adjacent South Wolfe Street. We tin spot 2 cars submerged successful the h2o @wjz pic.twitter.com/VsDGacFpeY

— Stetson Miller (@stetsonmreports) October 29, 2021

The metropolis established that site, on with 2 much connected Frederick Avenue and Spellman Road, truthful individuals and families could insulate their homes and concern from floodwaters.

Another resident, Dolhus Hollaway, knows a happening oregon 2 astir flooding. In 2003, helium said, Hurricane Isabel flooded his family’s basement with 2 feet of water.

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“We’re trying to forestall that from happening again,” said Hollaway, who went retired to prime up sandbags aft proceeding they were disposable astatine respective sites passim the city.

Residents had each close to beryllium concerned. After all, the National Weather Service warned that the weekend’s flooding could beryllium 1 of the worst the metropolis has seen since Isabel.

All time long, h2o could beryllium seen creeping into the streets and walkways successful the Inner Harbor and parts of Fell’s Point. Thames Street adjacent South Wolfe was flooded by Friday evening.

Some businesses successful Fells Point person closed aboriginal due to the fact that of the tempest @wjz pic.twitter.com/QgxBk9tOCZ

— Stetson Miller (@stetsonmreports) October 29, 2021

The menace of imaginable flooding successful those neighborhoods led immoderate businesses to see closing early.

Megan Day, manager of The Seasoned Olive, expected the gourmet market store to beryllium among them. She said the information of her employees is her main priority.

“We’re utilized to the flooding, we cognize what to do, truthful we conscionable benignant of acceptable up and hunker down,” Day told WJZ.

While Baltimore was spared important flooding Friday, there’s nary telling what the upwind mightiness person successful store for the metropolis implicit the weekend.

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The metropolis has opened 3 garages until Sunday greeting for residents who privation to marque definite their vehicles enactment dry. You tin find the database of garages here.

Water is starting creep inland present successful Fells Point @wjz pic.twitter.com/QWcvFoNwqr

— Stetson Miller (@stetsonmreports) October 29, 2021