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It has been a cruel year in South Carolina. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP) LOCAL PRINT OUT (MYRTLE BEACH HERALD OUT, HORRY INDEPENDENT OUT, CAROLINA FOREST CHRONICLE, GEORGETOWN TIMES OUT); MANDATORY CREDIT. The Carolinas saw sunshine Tuesday afte…
While transporting supplies to Kingstree, S.C., on October. 6, a South Carolina National Guard Chinook helicopter surveyed the damage caused by record flooding in the state. Despite an improving forecast, it will still take weeks for the state to return to normal after being pummeled by a historic rainstorm.
“I’m waiting on rescue people to come pick me up”, said Green, 70, who planned to leave her home in the vulnerable Dunbar community and stay with her daughter until the floodwaters subsided. About 1,000 residents near the compromised Beaver Dam were told to evacuate Wednesday morning.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham warned the disaster could ” break the bank”.
Nine people drowned and eight others were killed in weather-related vehicle crashes in South Carolina. The university says more than 80,000 fans expected for the game in Columbia would have put too much stress on weakened infrastructure.
In coastal Georgetown, one of America’s oldest cities, Scott Youngblood was putting more sandbags Tuesday by the door of the Augustus & Carolina furniture store on Front Street, the popular tourist attraction that runs along the Sampit River.
“We are going to be extremely careful”. “We had so much rain but the primary thing we were experiencing was the water table coming up through the bottom bubbling up from beneath the flooring”.
Governor Nikki Haley took an aerial tour of the coast Wednesday afternoon.
Haley said flooding is expected in Georgetown in the next 12 hours, followed by Jamestown and the Givens Ferry area in the next 72 hours.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said late Wednesday it had amended the disaster declaration for the recent flooding to make survivors in Calhoun, Darlington, Florence, Kershaw and Lee counties eligible for its individual assistance program. “We’re here supporting the governor”. Despite a setback involving efforts to plug a breached dam near the main water treatment plant, workers had already been working on an alternative plan to pump water directly from another location on the river, Assistant City manager Missy Gentry said.
Homes inundated by flood waters in Columbia, South Carolina. Butler said his mother’s home, like most in the neighborhood, is on a hill and not in danger of flooding.
“We’re talking hundreds of millions (of dollars), maybe over a billion”, he said while visiting a shelter in Columbia. After that, everything left behind will be thrown out so crews can clean up and fix the flood damage. He criticized the federal government’s aid package to the Northeast after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, calling it a “pork-laden monstrosity”.
North Carolina reported two deaths from traffic accidents, in Cumberland and Jackson counties, a state emergency management spokeswoman said.
The past two days have been “very tenuous”, said Jim Lehman, a member of the Beaver Dam Lake Owners Association and an area homeowner.
A few motorists honked in greeting and people standing by the road waved as the heavy truck wound down the back roads not far from the Black River.
Teams are searching the area in rescue boats and dive gear.
Electricity had returned to most homes and businesses and about 10,000 people were without water, down from a peak of 40,000.
About 300 state-maintained roads and 140 bridges remained closed on Wednesday, including a stretch of Interstate-95, state transportation officials said.
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Alpert says UofSCRelief has remained in contact with the city of Columbia to ensure that students are sent to safe work sites.
