Tea and sympathy: Flood-damaged Ellicott City...

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Linda Jones said she never lost faith that her quaint Victorian team room on Main Street in Ellicott City would reopen after a devastating July 30 flood destroyed it within minutes. On Thursday, that optimism paid off. Jones and other county officials cut a ribbon on the porch of Tea on the Tiber and gathered inside to pour the first pot of celebratory tea since the business suffered a wipe-out and $50,000 in damage. “It has been a rough road, but a road we traveled,” Jones said, of the past six…