'It's got its beauty and it's got its beast'...

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The Jones Falls Valley — Baltimore’s central basin that holds lush greenery, a series of historic mills and often the violent sting of Mother Nature — was abuzz Monday morning with activity and sorrow following Saturday’s flash flood by the narrow ribbon of water that runs through it. While the area did not have nearly the amount of property destruction as Ellicott City from the flash flooding, many businesses were hit for the second time in two years by flood waters because of the precarious…