MOUNT AIRY, Md. — Too much water for it to drain.

Thursday’s downpour sent water over the banks of a stormwater holding area in Mount Airy taking 13-year-old Mason Kearns with it, pinning him inside a small culvert next to his home as his mother and older brother tried in vain to free him.

Mason’s brother flagged down a neighbor, Maggie McBain, as she was driving by.

“When the brother said, ‘My brother is under the water. He’s been under there for five minutes,’ I flew out of the car and I was in the water, and I kept having to dive under the water and I was reaching my hands in there trying to get him out and it just wasn’t possible,” said McBain.

The town now will review all of its drain culverts and will form a task force focused on the potential of such weather events, but question

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