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The woes of too abundant snow were abundantly replaced bygone by the problems of too abundant baptize as Marylanders connected the cleanup from the bigger snowstorm on record.
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At 6 p.m., Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. aerial the accompaniment of emergency that had been in aftereffect for seven canicule -- but abounding bodies were still arresting with the storm's aftermath.
The basements of hundreds of homes were abounding -- some with raw carrion -- and food were bankrupt because of burst roofs or absurd ceilings, while calamity bankrupt highways and the awning of baptize buried alarming potholes.
While all academy systems in the burghal breadth planned to reopen today afterwards a abounding week's shutdown, it was appear that at atomic three schools would abide bankrupt because of storm-related accident -- Lake Clifton/Eastern Aerial Academy in Baltimore, and Severn River and Magothy River average schools in Anne Arundel County.
Authorities were anxious about aerial winds, with gusts as able as 49 mph at at 1:54 p.m., fearing the achievability of copse anchored in clammy clay toppling assimilate ability curve and buildings. But by backward afternoon, back high-wind warnings were lifted, some ability outages, but no austere damage, had been reported.
The calamity of underground accessories and airy apprehension agape out ability to about 5,000 barter of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., said backer Linda Foy. The account has about 1.14 actor customers.
By 8 p.m., about 3,600 outages remained with about 2,300 in Anne Arundel Canton and 1,000 in Howard County. BGE crews had been accomplished to fix burst transformers and downed ability curve that were damaged by the admixture of wind and water.
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Last night, as temperatures alone into the 20s, wet highways anesthetized over -- but the longer-range botheration that will become credible to motorists this morning will be anchorage pockmarked by potholes.
"They are all over the place," said Sandra Dobson, Accompaniment Highway Administration spokeswoman. "There are some absolutely bad ones."
Dobson appealed to the accessible for backbone and to use attention on the anchorage today. "Water can ample up holes, and you ability not apprehension how abysmal they are," she said.
Travel in some areas was bedfast bygone by snow melting and baptize abetment up from blocked storm drains. The Baltimore-Washington Parkway was bankrupt arctic of the Baltimore Beltway about 3:45 p.m. because of aerial water, and crews were alive to reopen the alley aftermost night, said Kellie Boulware, an SHA spokeswoman. Baptize additionally bankrupt roadways in Montgomery, Prince George's and Harford counties, but all had reopened by aftermost night, she said.
Road crews abide focused on snow removal, Boulware said, but planned to activate cavern assignment on some artery and accessory anchorage aftermost night.
In Harford County, Avenue 7 was reopened afterwards actuality bankrupt in several places Saturday and aboriginal bygone because of aerial water. Accompaniment badge in Bel Air said one agent got ashore on Avenue 7, but the disciplinarian got out afterwards difficulty.
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Several breadth food were bankrupt because of worries and discoveries of storm damage. At Arundel Mills, Saks 5th Avenue and Zales adornment abundance were bankrupt for a few hours afterwards advisers anticipation they had detected a structural blemish in the walls. They contacted canton officials, who inspected the architecture and declared it safe, said Gene Condon, carnality admiral and accepted administrator of the ample mall.
In Prince George's County, apprehension delayed the chase and abatement of bits from the burst roof of a Toys "R" Us abundance in Lanham. Added retail casualties included Safeway supermarkets in Pasadena and Severna Park, bankrupt back Saturday because of roof damage, blaze admiral said.
A burst roof at the authoritative offices was abhorrent for the closing of the two Anne Arundel average schools, which allotment a campus in Arnold. They are accepted to be bankrupt through tomorrow. But added Anne Arundel schools, and those in the burghal and Carroll, Harford, Howard and Baltimore counties were appointed to activate at the approved time today, admiral said.
"Right now, it looks like a go," said Charles I. Ecker, Carroll's academy superintendent.
Meteorologists accustomed temperatures blockage in the 30s and 40s for about-face the meltdown. Todd Miner, a astrologer with Penn Accompaniment Weather Communications, said temperatures soared into the 70s in Norfolk, Va., and the 50s on the Eastern Shore, but the snowcap in the Baltimore arena helped air-conditioned air temperatures. "It slowed the melting process," he said.
And in a aberration from Mother Nature, the abiding aridity altitude that bargain streams to almanac levels accustomed them to bigger board the melting snow and rain, said U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Gary Fisher.
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Kurt Kocher, a burghal accessible works spokesman, reminded Baltimoreans that front-only debris auto is in aftereffect through Wednesday. Recycling items should be placed out advanced all week, he said, abacus that items should be placed in containers on top of the snow at the ancillary of the road, not in the roadway. Bulk accumulating is appointed to resume Thursday, he said.
At Home Depot in Catonsville, a addition of 80 sump pumps that accustomed Saturday afternoon was gone in beneath than a day, a artisan said. The bazaar for wet/dry boutique vacuums was brisk, too. In a 10-minute period, six of them were agitated out en avenue to breadth basements, including Glenn Smith's.
Smith was calling in the reinforcements afterwards "very creatively" administration the overflow at his Woodlawn home. "I biconcave up about 200 gallons" of baptize from the basement, application 5-gallon buckets, Smith said.
Brothers Pry Watson and James Spell lucked out back they absolved into the abundance aloof as a agent put an earlier attic archetypal out for auction at a abysmal abatement -- $20, bottomward from about $80, Watson said with a smile. They austere snow from a cesspool alfresco the basement of their home on Baltimore's McCulloh Street, the brace said, but not afore baptize formed beneath the door.
In added areas, communities were absolved the all-encompassing calamity of storms past. In the tiny Cecil Canton boondocks of Port Deposit, which had to be abandoned in 1996 afterwards melting snow pushed the Susquehanna River over its banks, association airy bygone afterwards a active day of channeling baptize from overflowing streams abroad from houses.
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