PHOTOS, VIDEO: Annapolis City Dock Flooding 'Worse Than Sandy'
Flooding has closed on side of the Eastport Bridge and flooded the first floors of several Dock Street businesses on Friday morning.
Annapolis residents woke up Friday morning to nearly 4 feet of flood waters on City Dock after going to bed Thursday without power after strange lights lit up the sky. "The flooding is more substantial than [Superstorm] Sandy," Annapolis Harbormaster Flip Walters said. "The Naval Academy measures at 3.95 [feet above normal]. I suspect we are going to get up to somewhere 4.1 [feet]." The city closed Compromise Street between St. Mary's Street and Memorial Circle. This means drivers coming from Eastport to Annapolis cannot use the Eastport Bridge. Dock Street is closed as well as a section of Randall Street in front of the Market House. High tide will be at 12:21 p.m., but Walters said that doesn't necessarily mean that's when the water …
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Ted Weber
11:01 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
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