SOUTH CAROLINA- Life for the people in South Carolina is finally starting to go back to normal after being severely flooded from days of rain earlier this month. From October 1 to October 2 South Carolina received over twenty inches of rain. There was over eighteen inches of flooding on some roadways.The torrential rain broke several records.  ¨The official statewide twenty-four hour rainfall record was exceeded in several locations, and the unofficial state record for five-day total rainfall, which had stood for over one hundred and seven years, has been surpassed at more than a dozen reporting sites” according to the Weather Channel.

According to CNN.com, the record breaking flooding has caused at least nineteen people have died in weather related incidents: seventeen people in South Carolina and two in North Carolina.  There have also been at least six hundred rescues of people and animals have been made. Even though the torrential rain has stopped the damage keeps adding up for the residents in the Carolinas. There has been more than 400, 000 of the state’s 4.8 million residents were under boil-water advisory which affects approximately sixteen water systems and sixty-two are were being monitored. To add more problems, at least thirteen dams have failed since Saturday. According to Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina estimates that the damage is over $300 million dollars in South Carolina due to the intense flooding.