OAKLAND, Md. — Franklin County emergency management director Alan Radcliffe saw both sides of super-hurricane Sandy – front side and back side. Radcliffe is part of a team of seven Kansas emergency officials sent by the Kansas Adjutant General’s office this weekend to help Maryland deal with the monster storm that hit the east coast. The team served in the state emergency operations center near Baltimore as the eye of the storm went over Maryland Monday night and early Tuesday. That resulted in high winds, heavy rain and flooding in the waters around Baltimore, although the flooding wasn’t severe as that in New Jersey and southern New York, Radcliffe said. Wednesday afternoon, the Kansans were dispatched to Oakland, Md., the county seat of Garrett County, which was seeing a different face of Sandy – a raging blizzard. The county was experiencing snows of at least two feet deep and the storm knocked out electricity to at least 80 percent of the county, Radcliffe said. The sudden blizzard has overwhelmed emergency officials and the Kansans will help out and help keep contact with state authorities, he said. The team is scheduled to be in Maryland about two weeks.
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