Friday, August 31, 2012
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman announced the county will focus on emergency preparedness in September.
Although Howard County is often touted among the richest and most educated areas in the state, residents still have to deal with the world's biggest source of chaos: Mother Nature. People have lost power, property and even their lives from natural disasters and accidents–ranging from the derecho in June, Hurricane Irene and the earthquake last August, and more recently the fatal train derailment in Ellicott City. It is in regard for such incidents that Howard County Executive Ken Ulman announced September as "National Preparedness Month" for the county, following the Federal Emergency Management Agency 's national initiative. "These disasters show us how important it is to take some simple steps now and prepare for emergencies before they …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
BGE offers a demonstration on just how difficult it is for utility workers to repair downed lines and get power restored following a major storm.
At the peak of Hurricane Irene last August, more than 800,000 homes in Maryland were without power. A majority of BGE’s 3,400 employees, along with about 1,000 from out-of-state, worked around the clock for more than a week to restore all of the power. Many customers were patient, while many others grew frustrated after living in the dark for days with no electricity. Veteran BGE workers like Gordon Johnson understood that frustration—he has seen his fair share of hurricanes and blizzards during his 30-year career with the utility company. But he also wants customers to know that restoring power is often not as simple as patching a wire or flipping a switch. “You’re out there in all the elements and what we’re often dealing with is …
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Residents could see a flash flood rating system and an increased number of rain gardens.
Howard County officials want to do a better job of warning residents that a flash flood is coming. Officials, in fact, have included that as a goal in a new report outlining how to protect residents and businesses from floods. The plan was about a year in the making and comes coincidentally after recent rains from Tropical Storm Lee caused a 20-year flood in parts of the county, according to Howard Saltzman of the county's storm water management division. The plan's public release comes amid news that Howard County was not among the areas in Maryland to receive federal funding for flood-related disaster assistance related to Lee. The declaration by President Obama means Federal Emergency Management Agency money would go to those local …
Monday, September 5, 2011
Patch editors and contributors captured the storm and its effects.
Can a thousand pictures be summed up in one word? Would anyone even ask that question if it weren't the digital age? Who needs that many pictures when you've got us to pick out these great shots from a week in your region on Patch? Take a quick look through our lens. This week we take a close look at what Hurricane Irene wrought in our area.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Power along sections of Montgomery Street is restored after Hurricane Irene.
Power has been restored to a section of Old Town Laurel that ha been without since Hurricane Irene struck the region last weekend. Residents along the 300 block of Montgomery Street have been without electrical services since Saturday evening when a large tree fell on power lines disrupting services. Today, electrical trucks carrying workers from Tennessee and locally region descended in the area to repair down wires. There have beens scattered power outages throughout the Laurel area since Sunday. In the Russett community, residents complained that BG&E missed multiple deadlines during the week before the power came back on shortly after noon today. Before Irene struck, BG&E officials warned that as many as 500,000 customers in the state …
Meals and water continue to be made available.
It’s Day Six of no electrical power for many residents of BGE’s service area in Howard County. According to BGE.com as of 8:57 am Howard County had 8,121 residents still in the dark, an increase from the reported number of 3,081 at 5:57 pm last night. County Executive Ken Ulman said the county will be extending the availability of MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat) and water through the weekend if power outages continue. Provisions for those in need will again be available from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the following senior centers Friday: and at the Gary J. Arthur Community Center and the North Laurel Community Center from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. In addition, the Howard County Food Bank at 8920 Route 108, Suite A in Columbia will be open today from…
The community awaits return of power after Hurricane Irene.
When the power went out in Russett on Sunday as Hurricane Irene swept through the region, many in community assumed it would only be a matter of hours before it was restored. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then Thursday came and went with no lights, no refrigerator, no washer or air conditioner for some residents. After five days, residents in Russett say they want answers from Baltimore Gas and Electric as to why their community of more than 3,700 homes is still plagued by power outages. Russett, a 610-acre housing development just east of the City of Laurel, was built in the early 1990s. Utility lines serving the community are all underground and the community is mostly free of the large older trees that brought down power lines …
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown stopped by a BGE command center in Piney Orchard to assess the response to power outages caused by Tropical Storm Irene.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said there remains a “sense of urgency” to have power restored to the tens of thousands of Marylanders affected by Tropical Storm Irene, while Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) officials said they expect most people will have electricity by Friday. BGE has already restored service to more than 522,000 customers. Brown met with BGE officials Tuesday in Odenton, where the company converted offices into one of two command centers in the state. Workers there were directing crews to deal with power outages across BGE’s service area, where more than 226,000 customers were still without service. As of Tuesday night, nearly 10,000 customers in Howard County still had now power, according to numbers from BGE. “The apparatus is…
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Maryland has no law governing right of way when power fails and traffic lights go dark.
Hurricane Irene didn't just knock down trees and cut off power. The weekend storm that churned up the East Coast has inadvertently revealed a hole in Maryland's traffic laws, according to a regional motorist organization. Scores of intersections were left without power in the days following the weekend storm, leaving government officials to plead for motorists to treat intersections with inoperable traffic lights as four-way stops. But Maryland law does not require it. "People think we have a law but we don't," said Ragina Averella, public and government affairs manager for AAA Mid-Atlantic. "I was a (Baltimore City) police officer and I thought we had a law." Del. James Malone, chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing motor vehicles …
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