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WASHINGTON (WMAL) – Frederick County is tallying up damages and working on getting back to business as usual after flooding last week.
As of Thursday morning, nearly 300 homeowners reported about $8 million in structural losses and $2 million in personal property losses from the flooding, according to county executive Jan Gardner. That’s in addition to about $1 million dollars in losses reported by a dozen business owners.
“We do wanna hear about all types of storm damage to determine if the county will then qualify for state and federal assistance,” Gardner said.
Reports can be filed on the county’s website through June 15.
While owners of homes and businesses are filing damage reports, highway crews are working to repair roads and bridges.
According to Gardner, about 80 to 90 percent of roads in the county have reopened, but a lot of work needs to be done around them.
“I think it will be a couple months before everything is put back in place, but it depends on the situation,” Gardner said.
The most severely damaged road was Route 180 over Catoctin Creek. Gardner said the Maryland State Highway Administration estimates it could take seven weeks or more before that road is ready for traffic.
In the meantime, Gardner said highway crews are working to get the closed roads in good enough shape to enable emergency vehicles to use them.
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