Show of Hands

that flooding was insane. a lot of residents are saying it's due to the neighborhood built at the top of the hill. they cleared all the trees and stuff so nothing is there to catch the water.

a lot of business owners literally just reopened after fixing their stores from the flood 2 years ago

This is very much my field (for those one or two SoH users who ever wondered). Disasters are opportunities to catalyze change, and there are ways to rebuild/recover from disaster that increase social-ecological resilience. Most American communities do not do so. Ellicott City has a real opportunity here to identify specific threats and risks and implement community-scale adaptations and mitigations. If it looked like that was the likely path forward, I'd stick around, rebuild, and engage as thoroughly in the process as possible.

I’d be outta there, not just because of the floods though.

If my name was Noah, I'd start building

www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/us/ellicott-city-flooding-maryland.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=5&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F05%2F27%2Fus%2Fellicott-city-flooding-maryland.html&eventName=Watching-article-click