to 8 p.m., according to the Howard County government. I can't go through this again."īusiness owners and residents will have escorted access to their properties Tuesday from 8 a.m. "I don't know what to say is going to happen to Ellicott City," she said. Now, after 22 years in business, she says she can't fathom going through this again. Like so many Ellicott City business owners she did re-open, and was excited for the future of the city she loves. When FOX 5 spoke to Shea-Cohen after the flood in 2016, she was already thinking about re-opening her shop. She had just gotten her inventory back inside for Memorial Day weekend.
What's worse, the weekend before she had moved everything out in fear of the storms. They took refuge in someone's apartment, surviving with just a few scrapes.Ī day later, Shea-Cohen says she's grateful for her life, but devastated to lose her business yet again. We're going to end up drowning in this river. "We were basically swim walking," Shea-Cohen said.Ĭell phone video shows her clinging to Gary as they wade near the Tiber River. She says the door was stuck so they broke a window to escape into the flooded street. I said, 'Gary, I don't want to drown in here.'" All the furniture was moving, the floor had buckled and the water is getting higher and higher. "And the showcase came down, this huge 6-foot-wide, 6-foot-tall showcase came down.
Shea-Cohen was in the shop with her friend, Gary, when water started pouring in from the front and back. "I've had a lot of things in my life that have happened, but this was the scariest," she said.
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