S Carolina braces for post-Florence floods

By Harriet McLeod and Gene Cherry
Updated September 24 2018 - 5:26pm, first published 5:22pm
Remnants of the once-mighty Florence brought heavy rains across a swath of South Carolina.
Remnants of the once-mighty Florence brought heavy rains across a swath of South Carolina.

As many as 8000 people in and around the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, have been urged to evacuate ahead severe flooding expected this week from two rain-gorged rivers in what may be the final destructive chapter of Hurricane Florence.