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One of the worst storms in memory

Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Myersville residents Kathy Green, her son, Jeremiah Roelky, and Yonnah Palmer surveyed a damaged baseball field on Wednesday.

Roelky, 16, a first baseman for the local colt league, figured Saturday’s game would probably be canceled.

The rains washed away concrete sidewalks, felled dozens of branches and flooded the field at Md. routes 17 and 40. Green said her hilltop house on Scravel Road suffered little damage. But the water in Palmer’s basement, just down the road, flowed in and out throughout Wednesday, reaching as high as a foot or so.

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The neighbors said they were surveying the damage in Myersville when they heard about a mudslide on Harp Hill Road and the three drownings in Catoctin Creek.

‘‘I don’t recall ever having heard of three deaths in a row in Myersville,” said Green, who did not know he victims. ‘‘We’ve been hearing bits and pieces of it all day.”