Aaron Rigsby reports from South Carolina where a dam has failed amid severe flooding which continues to affect the area.
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00:00The Carolinas, the Southeast, and extreme flooding.
00:04It's something we've heard so much about over the last month and a half.
00:07And with November, the beginning of a new month,
00:10it unfortunately does not look like any sign of relief is coming for these areas.
00:15As another area of historically heavy rain impacts the state of South Carolina,
00:20an area impacted so heavily by Hurricane Helene's ferocious winds and heavy rainfall.
00:26Anywhere from Augusta, Georgia, all the way down to Norway, South Carolina,
00:31up into the communities of Nice and North South Carolina.
00:35They saw over a foot of rainfall in just a 24 hour time frame,
00:41turning normal just small creeks and streams into raging torrents of water.
00:46Some of which washed out roadways and bridges and
00:49even collapsed several dams that have been breached around these large ponds.
00:55And of course, we see that this has a snowball effect.
00:58All of that water is released.
01:00It comes racing downstreams, making an already bad situation even worse in these
01:06very vulnerable and already hard hit areas.
01:09I did talk to a couple of the local residents in Norway, South Carolina, and
01:13they tell me it's something like they have never seen before.
01:17They've had flooding, but never to this caliber.
01:19Now with blue skies starting to come clear in these areas beginning to dry out,
01:25a lot of the folks around here are hoping this is the last round of severe weather
01:29that they have to deal with for quite some time.
01:32For AccuWeather, I'm Aaron Rigsby.