{"id":38602,"date":"2018-10-02T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38602"},"modified":"2018-10-02T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:10:48","slug":"south-carolina-still-grappling-with-historic-flooding-from-florence-a-storm-worsened-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38602","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n
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South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence\u2019s fury\u00a0when the\u00a0storm\u00a0made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic\u00a0flooding.<\/p>\n

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\nFlooded house in Socastee, South\u00a0Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n

Florence lingered over the Carolinas, dumping more than 30 inches of rain<\/a> in some areas. Five rivers and the IntraCoastal Waterway crested several feet above major flood stage, resulting in flooding that will last for weeks to come in parts of South Carolina. Cities and towns on its northern coast are experiencing the worst of it, where standing water remains in buildings along the Intracoastal Waterway and near riverbanks deep into the\u00a0Carolinas.<\/p>\n

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\nFlooded mobile home in Bucksport, South\u00a0Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPine Grove Baptist Church in Brittons Neck, South\u00a0Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jane and Chris Ochsenbein, owners of Gator Bait Adventure Tours<\/a>\u00a0in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, took me on a\u00a0kayak\u00a0tour of\u00a0flooded areas 10 days after the storm hit the\u00a0coast.<\/p>\n

On September 26, we met up with April O\u2019Leary, a program officer for Winyah Rivers Foundation and the Waccamaw\u00a0Riverkeeper\u00a0program, in Conway, a city about 15 miles from South Carolina\u2019s\u00a0coast.<\/p>\n

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\nChris Ochsenbein pulling a kayak into floodwater in Conway, South Carolina\u2019s Sherwood\u00a0neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nApril O\u2019Leary, in front of her flooded home in Conway, South Carolina, on September\u00a026.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u00a0paddled\u00a0our way to her home in Conway\u2019s Sherwood neighborhood the day that the\u00a0Waccamaw\u00a0River crested, reaching 21.16 feet, 7 feet over major\u00a0flood stage. O\u2019Leary later told me that level set a new record by more than three feet. The previous record, 17.89 feet, was set following Hurricane Matthew just two years\u00a0earlier.<\/p>\n

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South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence\u2019s fury\u00a0when the\u00a0storm\u00a0made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic\u00a0flooding. Flooded house in Socastee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,5317,1001,21583,11518,15919],"class_list":["post-38602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-desmog-blog","tag-flooding","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-julie-dermansky","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38603,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38602\/revisions\/38603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}