There has been a lot of activity on the page with heartbroken pet owners reaching out for help and residents posting lost animals they have found in the streets or their own backyards.
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CBS 6 and the Red Cross are teaming up to hold a phone bank on Wednesday, Oct. 7, for flood victims in South Carolina.
Al Roker, well, he took a smiling selfie while covering the deadly flooding in South Carolina.
Benjamin said contingency plans include pumping water from the canal to the reservoir that feeds the water plant and working with the National Guard to pump water directly from the Broad River.
According to the S.C. Department of Transportation, there are a total 409 road and bridge closures across the state, including 268 roads and 141 bridges.
Sean Nance walks through floodwaters carrying some work clothes as… State officials will spend the next 24 hours conducting localized evacuations in areas of concern. As many as 40,000 homes have no water service, and those with service have been told to boil the water for at least one minute before using it for drinking or cooking.
Crews were filling a sinkhole with rocks in hopes that would stabilize the dam.
The South Carolina lawmaker visited A.C. Flora High School Wednesday morning, where dozens of people sought shelter after the latest dam breach threatened their homes.
Those killed included five trapped in vehicles overcome by flood water, the paper reported, citing state officials.
As of mid-day Wednesday, 269 roads remained closed as well as 137 bridges.
The search-and-rescue effort continued in Richland County for two people missing when the vehicle they were in plunged into a break in a rural road and into water about 3 a.m. Three people were rescued, but efforts were underway to find two others. The state avoided a hit from Hurricane Joaquin but experienced historic rainfall and flooding due to a combination of weather mostly unrelated to that storm.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said all nine deaths in the county have come from people trying to drive in flooded areas.
Crews from the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. are pumping water out of the pond to relieve pressure on the dam.
Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency already has assessors on the ground, and Berkeley, Sumter and Clarendon counties have been added to a federal disaster declaration.
In two of the most recent storm-related deaths, deputies said the pickup’s driver went around a barricade and plunged into the water at a 20-foot gap where pavement was washed out.
After a week of steady downpours, South Carolina residents are now facing the prospect of going days without running water, waterlogged dams overflowing, bridges collapsing, flood waters continuing to rise and looting. Residents are concerned there may be more flooding on the Black and Waccamaw rivers – two waterways cited as worrisome by Governor Nikki Haley.
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Some residents of Georgetown, between Charleston and Myrtle Beach, were getting ready by stacking sandbags or moving their possessions as rivers crest upstream, causing the potential for more flooding in an area where water was a foot deep or more over the weekend.
