— Beginning on June 21, 1972, Hurricane Agnes’ remnants swept across Maryland, causing devastation in its path. The storm took 21 lives and flooded Main Street in Ellicott City, while also causing destruction across the state as a whole. More than $100 million worth of damage was caused in Maryland and Washington, D.C., due to the effects of Agnes, and our state wasn’t the only one affected by the natural disaster.
New York and Pennsylvania were hit the hardest by Hurricane Agnes, while states surrounding Maryland, such as Virginia, also reported millions of dollars in damages and a significant death toll. Across the country, about 120 people lost their lives, and the damages added up to an estimated amount of more than $3 billion in total, according to Agnes50.
In many parts of Maryland, more than 10 inches of rain fell onto the ground and into the local waterways, creating flooding of unseen proportions for our state. Central Maryland received the worst of it, and Westminster recorded more than 14 inches of rain during the tropical storm…