Community Members And Volunteers Rally To Help Annapolis Maritime Museum During Flooding

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Facing the menace of terrible upwind and coastal flooding connected Friday, the unit astatine the Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park, located connected the shores of Back Creek, elevated exhibits successful lawsuit h2o came into the building.

Around 8:30 p.m., they realized the displays were not precocious capable arsenic the depository took connected astir 13 inches of water, said Alice Estrada, president and CEO of the depository successful the city’s Eastport neighborhood.

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“It was conscionable pouring in,” she recalled.

A fractional hr later, a radical of astir 25 volunteers and supporters–prompted by a societal media station from a assemblage organizer–showed up to rapidly instrumentality isolated and determination the grounds panels to a higher space. The radical besides moved a refrigerator from the museum’s catering kitchen, redeeming the appliance.

“I’m conscionable truthful humbled to cognize that we are truthful beloved by our community, that they would rally similar that for us,” Estrada said.

The volunteers wrapped up the occupation successful abbreviated order.

“Many hands marque airy work, and we’re truthful grateful,” Estrada said. “And to travel astatine that hr was truly extraordinary.”

Speaking with WJZ connected Saturday, Estrada said she’s inactive assessing the harm to the depository space.

A caller grounds connected the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, “Our Changing Waterfront,” contains a batch of physics components, specified arsenic a virtual world vessel ride, a holographic waterman and aquariums that correspond the past and contiguous of the watershed.

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Estrada hopes determination won’t beryllium extended harm to those elements aft they adust retired and are cleaned.

Water is inactive pooling successful immoderate places, which is being addressed with sump pumps. When precocious tide came again Saturday astatine 1 p.m., h2o didn’t encroach the gathering this time, Estrada said.

“I consciousness similar we’re connected the downhill,” she said. “Yesterday we conscionable had the cleanable tempest with the Nor’easeter and the upwind and the rains and the tidal anomaly that was truthful important and beyond our control. We could not clasp it back. We tried.”

Community members person continued to scope retired to connection support.

“This is truthful heartwarming and humbling,” she said.

For now, the depository is closed indefinitely. The gathering inactive needs to beryllium professionally cleaned and the exhibits person to beryllium enactment backmost together.

And there’s inactive enactment to beryllium done clearing debris from the tract and a adjacent parkland the depository manages.

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But Estrada said she hopes to unfastened backmost up successful a week.

CBS Baltimore Staff