“She was so frantic because she witnessed Eddie get swept away.” “After Eddie left, I saw a woman come in later who was frantic,” he said. He, too, said Sunday’s flood seemed far worse than the one in 2016. Reading this on your iPhone or iPad? Check out our new Apple News app channel here and click the + at the top of the page to save to your Apple News favorites. Most customers stayed inside, where Cortes offered refuge for wedding guests celebrating at the nearby Main Street Ballroom. Simon Cortes, La Palapa’s owner, said his restaurant suffered some water damage, but its hilltop location prevented it from destruction. Police had allowed him inside his shop Monday, where he saw thousands of dollars of rugs soaked by the storm, calling it “worse than last time.”īut, like other locals, he wasn’t allowed to linger long enough to bring any of the merchandise out. “Like a phoenix, it will rise from the ashes. “This is a great community and a great country,” he said. Yet he is optimistic about rebuilding once more.
He believes climate change is at least partly to blame for two so-called “thousand-year-floods” in two years. He’d built a retaining wall two years ago, but water had poured into his 120-year-old building anyway. Mojan Bagha, owner of Main Street Oriental Rugs, said it had taken him three months to fix the damage in 2016. Larry Hogan, echoed a similar storm in the summer of 2016, which left two people dead. The massive flooding, which prompted a state of emergency declaration from Maryland Gov. “If we called him right now saying we needed help looking for someone, Eddie would be there in five minutes.”Īuthorities say Hermond, of Severn, Md., was swept away during the flood, and remained missing Monday. “He’s that kind of guy,” said his close friend, Kenneth Josepha, a State Department analyst from Northern Virginia, whose wedding 13 years ago on Monday included Hermond as a groomsman. Eddison “Eddie” Hermond, a National Guardsman, is believed missing in the wake of Sunday’s flash flood in Ellicott City, Md. (Courtesy of Kenneth Josepha)
When a woman came into La Palapa Grill & Cantina and said her cat was stranded in a nearby pet store, customer Eddison “Eddie” Hermond, 39, offered to help. But the rainstorm outside morphed into a relentless downpour, fueling what soon became a river that dislodged parked cars and flooded buildings along Main Street in Ellicott City, Md. It was supposed to be a routine late-Sunday lunch over Mexican food. Click here if you’re having trouble viewing the video or photo gallery on a mobile device.īy Michael E.
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