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Organizations Collecting Donations For Ellicott City Flood Victims

May 31st, 2018 by WCBC Radio

WBAL reports that since Sunday's flood devastated Ellicott City, donations have been pouring in to help.

In fact, the Howard County Food Bank has been the first stop for hundreds within just hours of the flooding, donating tens of thousands of pounds in food and cleaning supplies. Many of those supplies are now at a church on the west end of town that is doing what it can to help.

St. Peter's Episcopal Church in old Ellicott City is many things to many people these days — a staging area for residents and business owners to get back on Main Street, and both outside and inside a donation-distribution site.

"Every time we say, 'Oh we need to go get,' it just appears. It's great," said Katherine Schnorrenberg, with St. Peter's Episcopal Church.

Schnorrenberg, a junior warden of the church, said response has been incredible with donations from all denominations.

"(There are) boxes of water bottles and cleaning supplies, and yesterday Ace Hardware dropped off 30 wheelbarrows. There are two left, I will point out, and shovels," Schnorrenberg said.

More donations came in from the Howard County Food Bank in Columbia. Within four hours of Sunday's devastation, more than 51,000 pounds of supplies came in to help flood victims.

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