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    The $1billion flood: Devastating scenes in South Carolina as rain which killed 19 people finally rel

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    Post by Lobo Thu 08 Oct 2015, 5:20 pm

    The $1billion flood: Devastating scenes in South Carolina as rain which killed 19 people finally relents revealing damage to homes, road and stores

    • The record-breaking downpours have subsided, but now thousands of people have to contend with the floods 
    • Initial estimates suggest the floods caused $1billion damage to homes, stores, and roads
    • Columbia mayor Steve Benjamin said: 'I believe that things will get worse before they get better' 
    • South Carolina governor Nikki Haley warned: 'This is not over', as residents try and pick up the pieces 
    • At least 19 people are confirmed dead - the two latest deaths occurred when a pickup drove past a barricade and plunged into water

    By Associated Press

    Published: 11:49 EST, 7 October 2015 | Updated: 12:46 EST, 8 October 2015
    Rivers rose and dams bulged Wednesday as South Carolina faced another anxious day of waiting for the floodwaters to recede, and dive teams recovered the bodies of two people who disappeared in waters after they drove around a barricade.
    Along the coast, residents prepared for a second round of flooding as rivers swollen from days of devastating rains make their way toward the Atlantic. 
    In the Columbia area, where some returned home to assess damage and clean up, the threat of more flooding still hadn't lifted.
    About 1,000 residents near the compromised Beaver Dam were told to evacuate Wednesday morning, though the order was lifted several hours later when crews shored up the dam.
    U.S. senator Lindsey Graham warned the disaster could 'break the bank' of federal emergency funds, possibly topping more than $1billion.


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    Rankin Craig watches as friends and family remove belongings from her flooded home in Forest Acres in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday
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    Cathy Stinson, right, and Maria Mayer, left, help a friend remove belongings from her flooded home after the rain finally relents
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    Electricity had returned to most homes and businesses and about 10,000 people were without water, down from a peak of 40,000
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    Stacy Berry checks the level of water running across the road as flood waters inundate parts of the state
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    Scott Everett (standing) transports his family on a johnboat along Lee's Landing Circle in Conway, South Carolina
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    Anthony Johnson walks over the floodwaters in downtown Kingstree, South Carolina, on Wednesday. Rivers rose and dams bulged
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    Sarah Dillow, David Castillo and Drew Kepner (L-R) move ostriches from their flooded pen in Givhans South Carolina
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    Flood waters surround a church, as parts of the state are inundated after the heavy rains
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    Despite the efforts to get on with repairs, residents fear there could be more flooding as water has put strain on the dams
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    Walt and Marianna Cartin clean out their flood damaged home in the Forest Acres neighborhood
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    Devon Farley, left, and Ben Cooper remove damaged flooring and wallboard from a flooded home in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday



    At least 19 people in South Carolina and North Carolina have died in the storm.
    In coastal Georgetown, one of America's oldest cities, Scott Youngblood put more sandbags by the door of the Augustus & Carolina furniture store on Front Street, the popular tourist attraction that runs along the Sampit River.
    Each day since last weekend's storm - which sent more than a foot of water washing down the street - water at high tide has lapped against those sandbags. Residents worried there may be more flooding on the Black and Waccamaw rivers. Both drain into Georgetown County.

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    Roberta Albers walks around her home after the floodwaters start to recede at French Quarter Creek in Huger, South Carolina
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    People may need to evacuate again as tides come in from the Atlantic. Sharon Cahill is pictured surveying her pool house on Wednesday
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    Bill Cahill sprays off his pool deck as discarded furniture and insulation pile up in his yard after the floodwaters receded at French Quarter
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    Scott Everett helps his grandchildren en route to school off a johnboat along Lee's Landing Circle in Conway, S.C., on Wednesday
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    A driver slowly travels through the standing flood water on Roberta Lane in Socastee, South Carolina
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    Horry County police officer Jeff Helfinstine patrols the edge of flood waters along Lee's Landing Circle in Conway
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    Each day since last weekend's storm - which sent more than a foot of water washing down the street - water at high tide has lapped against those sandbags. Residents worried there may be more flooding on the Black and Waccamaw rivers. Both drain into Georgetown County
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    This aerial photo shows flooding around the Conway Marina, Tuesday, October 6, in Conway, S.C. The Carolinas saw sunshine Tuesday after days of inundation, but it could take weeks to recover from being pummeled by a historic rainstorm that caused widespread flooding
    Gov. Nikki Haley took an aerial tour of damaged areas Tuesday, and planned to visit the coast Wednesday afternoon.
    'We are watching this minute by minute,' she said. She said evacuations may be needed toward the coast because of swollen rivers.
    At a shelter in Columbia, Graham said it would take weeks to get a good damage assessment.
    'We're talking hundreds of millions (of dollars), maybe over a billion,' he said.
    On Tuesday, the governor said it could be 'any amount of dollars.'
    Graham also warned state and county officials not to use the disaster as an opportunity to ask for money unrelated to flood damage. He criticized the federal government's aid package to the Northeast following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, calling it a 'pork-laden monstrosity'.
    In the most recent storm-related deaths, a group of five railroad workers were in a pickup truck when it drove past a barricade and plunged into the water where pavement was washed out. 
    Three men in the pickup managed to get to safety around 3am Wednesday and divers later found the bodies of two men, authorities said.
    Sheriff's deputies said the pickup's driver went around barricade for a road that had been closed for several days after being washed out.
    The workers were in town to help repair washed out tracks.
    Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Curtis Wilson said the barricade was in the wrong lane, but regardless, the railroad workers should not have been out because there was a city-wide curfew in place.
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    Flood waters continue to cover Roberta Lane in Socastee, South Carolina, as officials assess the damage of the deadly flooding 
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    A Chinook helicopter lowers a massive sandbag just up from the breach of the Columbia Canal on October 6 in Columbia, South Carolina
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    Army National Guard organizes giant sandbags near the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, on Wednesday
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    A mailbox is barely visible in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., on Tuesday


    Electricity had returned to most homes and businesses and about 10,000 people were without water, down from a peak of 40,000.
    Roads and bridges were taking longer to restore: Some 200 engineers were inspecting more than 400 spots that remained closed Tuesday, including parts of Interstate 95.
    And crews in Columbia were still working Wednesday to repair a breach in a canal that was threatening the main water supply for 375,000 people, Utilities Director Joey Jaco said. Workers were building a rock dam a few hundred feet north of the breach, which is near the city's hydroelectric plant.
    Jaco said the only danger now is for the canal - built in the early 1800s and supplying 35 million gallons of water to the city's water plant each day - to breach in a second spot, but he added that the levy shows no signs of buckling.
    At the Beaver Dam in a neighborhood in northeast Columbia, officials worked to shore up the dam and said they believed the worst has been averted.
    Col. Brad Owens said crews worked through the night using sandbags and dropping rocks to hold back the escaping water. Part of the roadway has been eroded and has been closed for days, Owens said.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3263806/Devastating-scenes-South-Carolina-Rain-finally-relents-reveal-1-billion-damage-homes-road-stores-floods-killed-17-dive-teams-search-missing-people.html#ixzz3o16Mh3U2
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