Car Pulled from Centennial Lake: VIDEO

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — First responders fished a vehicle out of Centennial Lake over the weekend.

The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services pulled a silver two-door BMW from the lake in Ellicott City in about 20 to 25 minutes Sunday, according to ABC 2 News, which captured the event on video.

County officials had been prepared for the worst given the wet week and forecast predicting much of the same.

More than 5 inches of rain were reported in parts of Howard County by Friday morning, with the precipitation continuing on and off throughout the weekend.

There were 5.85 inches of rain reported in Elkridge and 3.11 inches of rain in Columbia as of 7 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, according to unofficial data from the National Weather Service.

At the end of July when the county received 6 inches of rain in a fatal flash flood, more than 200 vehicles were stuck in Ellicott City, where many had to be pulled from the Patapsco and Tiber-Hudson waterways.

A much smaller scale mission was required on Sunday. Nobody was injured when the vehicle rolled into Centennial Lake, according to ABC 2, and a cause for its drive into the water was undetermined.

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