South Carolina governor calls rain a 'thousand year' event
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley didn't mince any words Sunday about just how dangerous a situation the weather had become in her state.
"We haven't seen this level of rain in the Lowcountry in 1,000 years," Haley said at an afternoon press conference. "That's how big this is."
It wasn't hyperbole.
Certain areas of South Carolina had never before been deluged with such eye-popping rainfall tallies: more than 24 inches in Mount Pleasant, nearly 20 inches in areas around Charleston and more than 18 inches in the Gills Creek area of Columbia, according to CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward....