Portions of I-95 reopen in South Carolina following flood-caused closures

The University of South Carolina says it will resume classes on Monday after floods rocked the region around Columbia.

Flooding cripples parts of South Carolina]. Both Orangeburg women drowned, authorities said.

Road conditions are improving by the day in South Carolina, but hundreds of bridges and roads remained impassable Monday, eight days after historic rains and floods devastated much of the Midlands.

Parts of hard-hit Clarendon County saw about 4 inches of rain.

Richland 1 runs more than 675 different school bus routes to elementary, middle and high schools, superintendent Craig Witherspoon at a press conference.

The Farm Chase neighborhood in Lexington County survived the storms last week.

In a few cases, road closings imposed major hardships. Amounts are expected to be under 0.25 inches.

The majority of Columbia’s water customers still must boil their water.

Gentry also says progress has been made on a dam at the main water plant. But much of the rain turned into standing pools with the ground still saturated. The northbound lanes are expected to reopen later Monday or early Tuesday.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley gave an update Monday on the recovery and ways people can get help. An analysis of Twitter and Instagram showed God was the most-mentioned figure in posts about the floods since Monday, with twice as many mentions as Hurricane Joaquin. She said the city continues to streamline their flood response. Be careful who you donate to because there are always people looking to rip off other people in times like these.

Many workers at those businesses use Interstate 77 to go to work but that exit is closed due to flooding, Jeffcoat said. The Waccamaw River has crested and the Black River is near crest, Hemingway said Friday afternoon.

While the highway was closed, drivers had to take a 170-mile detour through Columbia instead of the normal 75-mile drive on I-95 between Interstate 26 and Interstate 20. Pollack had been gutting waterlogged houses for two days to help restore hope to his community. The Gamecocks lost to LSU in what was originally supposed to be a home game.

“Crested – I’ve been waiting for that word to be expressed here for a week”, Hemingway said.

“They are so wonderful”, she said.

Jan Hulbert, whose husband suffers from blood cancer, began to cry as she talked about the volunteers helping her dispose of the debris and sift through files, heirlooms and water-damaged belongings.