93.9 The Eagle – The News and Talk of Columbia, MO
(AP) – Eleven days ago, Lee Gantt was at a Hurricane Florence party in her neighborhood in Georgetown, where the story is that some houses near the Sampit River haven’t flooded since they were built before the American Revolution.
Gantt will spend Tuesday with sandbags, watching the nearby river rise from Florence’s heavy rains and seeing if the luck finally runs out on her home built in 1737.
The Sampit is one of five rivers that reach the Atlantic Ocean in and near Georgetown on the South Carolina coast. And Hurricane Florence – which started with record rainfall in North Carolina – is expected to cause record flooding downriver in Georgetown County as its final act.
The county has recommended almost 8,000 people leave their homes – more than 10 percent of the population.
