Marylanders Brace For Heavy Rain, Potential Flooding As Ida Moves North

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — As Ida moves North, Maryland is bracing for rain, upwind and imaginable flooding successful low-lying areas.

Ryan Lamy owns Pip’s Dock Street Dogs successful Annapolis and said his concern floods often. “We archetypal opened 12 years agone it was similar ‘panic mode,’ but you fig it retired down present connected Dock Street; it’s a regular occurrence,” helium said.

Hurricanes, tropical storms, adjacent conscionable the passing ablution tin origin nuisance flooding. In immoderate cases Lamy’s full edifice has been water-logged. He said, “once the sidewalk is gone that’s beauteous overmuch it for the day. It comes into the gathering and we tin get ankle-deep, shin-deep, I’ve had it knee-deep successful present before.”

The remnants and outer bands of Ida are expected to walk done Maryland Tuesday nighttime and Wednesday truthful areas are starting to prepare. Ellicott City is besides nary alien to flooding truthful parts of Main St and Maryland Avenue volition beryllium blocked disconnected truthful cars won’t beryllium stuck if the waters rise.

Gavin Buckley, Annapolis Mayor, said “we cognize the forecast has been downgraded, but determination inactive is simply a menace of flooding.” Though the metropolis does person a agelong word program to rise City Dock 6 feet successful the coming years to accommodate sea-level rise, the metropolis enactment sump pumps successful the drains to assistance flush retired h2o that ends up connected the roadworthy ways aft coming up done the ground. Buckely said, “storms oregon upwind events propulsion h2o up the Chesapeake Bay and into the tempest drains, past up done the grate and into the street.” Lamy has noticed a difference. “I conjecture it’s been a mates years present the metropolis enactment successful immoderate sump pumps successful the parking batch retired present and that’s helped tremendously,” helium said.

The Maryland Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director, Chas Eby told WJZ immoderate areas volition spot 6+ inches of rainfall and flash flooding is simply a concern. “The grounds are already saturated truthful we are acrophobic astir powerfulness outages that whitethorn hap besides truthful it’s important to complaint devices up of the storm,” Eby said.

MEMA is urging residents to enactment wrong during storms and if you spot lasting h2o covering a road, they accidental you should not thrust done it.

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The Office of Emergency Management successful Annapolis said if immoderate residents who person functional oregon entree needs and wants assistance earlier oregon aft the tempest you tin telephone 410-216-9167