On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:27:24 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:30:39 -0400, Micky
wrote:

Baltimore has been very interested in flooding since Hurricane Agnes,
I think it is, 1975 maybe, during which a few houses were washed away,

Agnes was the only time my street in Md flooded. I knew enough to buy
a lot at the top of the hill so I was OK but I had a couple of
neighbors who had 3' of water running through their house. They

Do you remember their address?

actually built a house at the bottom of the hill (next to where the
creek was 12' over the bank) a few years later but I never heard of
another flood like that there. It is certainly not a question of "if"
but when.

I think Ellicott City had big trouble during Agnes, and 2 weeks ago it
had big trouble again but not in the exact same place. It's at the
bottom of a hill too.

And I'm at the bottom of a hill too. I found an online map with
better topograhpy, and I think the hill is 40 feet high which is not
that much but it still gathers a lot of water.

The stream only goes 4 or 5 miles farther upstream, so that limits how
high the flood can be.