http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/south-carolina-flooding.html?ref=topics&_r=0
The rain — the last throes of a pernicious storm system partly fed by moisture from Hurricane Joaquin, which in recent days has spun in the Atlantic far from the United States mainland — was expected to end Tuesday. But Ms. Haley, in an early afternoon news conference, warned that South Carolina’s desperate time could be prolonged by record amounts of rain that had already fallen in much of the state, and must now flow toward the ocean.
“This is not over just because the rain stops,” she said. “It does not mean that we are out of the woods.”
In historic Charleston, Columbia’s coastal cousin to the south, the worst of the storms appeared to have passed Monday, after days of frayed nerves and waterlogged streets.
“I think the city is getting back to normal,” Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said in a phone interview, noting that trash trucks ran on their Monday routes and sections of only two dozen streets were impassable. The Historic Charleston City Market, the four-block commercial hall for tourists, opened Monday morning, and retailers nearby were grumbling about the money they had lost on what should have been a busy tourist weekend.
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