Communities In Baltimore County Brace For Potential Of More Flooding Overnight

EDGEMERE, Md. (WJZ) — People who unrecorded on the h2o successful Baltimore County are bracing for the imaginable of much flooding successful their neighborhoods overnight.

“It was unexpected,” Ronald Wozniak of Edgemere said. “This upwind was unexpected.”

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From Millers Island to Sparrows Point and Edgemere, h2o roseate to levels not seen successful decades.

“The neighbors who person been present a agelong clip accidental it hasn’t been this precocious since Isabel and successful their beingness that’s the lone clip it’s been this high,” Tyler Fields of Edgemere said.

Those with homes connected the h2o dealt with harm to their piers and flooding wrong their homes.

“I’m a small acrophobic astir it coming into my house,” a Baltimore County pistillate said. “I’m conscionable thanking God we person flood insurance.”

Many of the roads successful the country closed due to the fact that of fallen trees.

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“You tin lone locomotion up and down here, vehicles can’t get passed,” Wozniak said.

High h2o forced radical to get originative to get astir by traveling by kayak

“Well, it was a batch easier to determination spot to place,” Logan Wozniak of Edgemere said. “Plus, the h2o was getting truly precocious and it was getting implicit my boots and I didn’t consciousness similar keeping getting wet.”

These communities are bracing for much rising waters again overnight. Many are disquieted it mightiness beryllium worse.

“I looked astatine the tides again,” Ronald Wozniak said. “It’s astatine 3 a.m. So, I’ll beryllium up each nighttime backmost and distant checking connected it. Making definite I’m not getting immoderate water. Making definite the sub pumps are working.”

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Jessica Albert