If you’re around Sumter, it doesn’t matter if you live on a hill or not. The ground cannot deal with 15″ of rain.
The Coastal plain is sand and quickly absorbs surface water, although it still has to go somewhere. In the Piedmont area, the soil is clay which tends to block downward movement of water. Clay holds water, but not if it isn’t dried out and not much. Standing water will be a big problem. The huge area means there is nowhere for the water to go quickly.
Charlotte barely got the grass wet. Franklin Graham asked God to punish South Carolina instead
Official government advice:
Stay indoors, don’t go outside, and move now to higher ground
http://www.weather.com/safety/floods/news/south-carolina-flooding-impacts-0
Three police to criminal suspect:
Officer 1) don’t move!
Officer 2) put your hands in the air!
Officer 3) get down on the ground – now!
47 gunshots later
We thought he was going to hurt us. Department Policy was followed
Was that a reference to the shooting at night by the Police that was highlighted here? I still am interested in knowing what happened to the (N.C.?) Policeman who shot the guy 8 times in the back for running away from him.
I would say the above is a composite of reading too many articles on Reason.com and a dash of Atlas Shrugged
A general principle in the law is that laws must have a way to comply with the law – but the ultimate power comes from creating contradictory instructions, so a person is breaking the law no matter what they do.
The case in Charlotte was a hung jury, and the state is not going to try again. The police union is now working to expunge the incident from the officer’s record. That case was due to shooting him 10 times, but no shooting in the back. Don’t know if that’s the same one you’re thinking of
Double checked my geology and it’s basically right. Getting water from wells in the west is unreliable due to bedrock and poor drainage. Surface water is your friend. In the coastal plain, the water table is close to the surface and there are aquifers over wide areas.