Residents and business owners, Kittleman said, “are faced with the same daunting task again.”

“We will be there for them as we were in 2016,” he said.

Gov. Larry Hogan also toured the area and promised “every bit of assistance we possibly can.”

“They say this is a once every 1,000-year flood and we’ve had two of them in two years,” Hogan said.

The flooding Sunday swept away parked cars in Ellicott City, set along the west bank of Maryland’s Patapsco River and about 13 miles (20 kilometres) west of Baltimore.

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1,000 year storms are now happening every couple years, and are now the new ‘normal’. What happens when 10,000 year storms happen every couple years? They too will become the new normal if global warming is not stopped and reversed via getting off addiction to fossil fuels and nuclear power.