We lost everything on the first floor and the basement. We were closed for six months with similar catastrophic damage. KELLY: I mentioned that yesterday's flood was the second thousand-year flood that Ellicott City has experienced, the last one in 2016. The water ended up being 6, 7, 8 feet deep coming down Main Street.
And once it came over the curb, we brought all the customers up to the second floor. HEMMIS: It was - it started out as - it pooled around the sides of the road, you know, a couple inches deep on the curb, and then it covered the road. KELLY: And what did it look like, I mean, when you say the water was coming down Main Street? Kind of a lull in the mid- to late afternoon, and that's when the waters really started coming down Main Street. Did you have customers in the restaurant as the rain started to fall? I wonder if you can start by just telling me what yesterday was like. He owns Phoenix Emporium, a tavern-style restaurant in downtown Ellicott City. And now, as floodwaters recede, residents and business owners are assessing the damage.
Governor Larry Hogan has declared a state of emergency. For the second time in two years, the city experienced what has been called a thousand-year flood.
Flash floods tore through the historic downtown. Eight inches of rain fell in just six hours. For a while yesterday, Main Street in Ellicott City, Md., looked less like a street than a raging river.
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