COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the devastating 2015 South Carolina floods, a historic natural disaster that forever changed the lives of thousands across the Palmetto State.
In early October 2015, residents in South Carolina had as much as 21 inches of rain, triggering one of the worst flooding disasters in South Carolina’s history.
Communities from Columbia to Charleston were submerged under several inches or even feet of water, roads and bridges were washed away, and entire neighborhoods were left underwater for days.
The unprecedented rainfall was the result of a stationary front stalled offshore, which was continuously fed by deep tropical moisture linked to Hurricane Joaquin in the Atlantic…