It was the storm with no name. Despite the fact that yesterdays
weather event included 13 tornadoes in eight states, no one has given it a name,
not yet anyway. It was certainly worthy of
a name. According to
this story by
Becky Kellogg on
The Weather Channel, over “a hundred homes and businesses in
Laurel,
Md. were
evacuated Thursday
afternoon after heavy rains prompted the opening of nearby dams. A commuter
rail station in
Laurel
was also closed because of floodwaters. Roads in
Montgomery County,
Md. are closed, and some
are even buckling, due to the heavy rain and high water."Wind gusts up to
81 mph were clocked in southern New England early Thursday, including gusts
over 60 mph at New York's LaGuardia Airport and Boston's Logan Airport,"
says weather.com Senior Meteorologist Jon Erdman.”
In HoCo it appears that Ellicott dodged the
flood bullet
this time around. The bridge crossing the
Patapsco River
was closed as a precaution but this morning the river was still running under
the bridge instead of over it.
It was right at the deck though. Walking across from the
Baltimore County side this morning, Dave Carney
remarked that crossing over with the river so high made him feel a little
nervous.
It didn't seem to bother
Chloe.
