• Floodwaters rush over a diversion dam Tuesday in Columbia, South Carolina. Despite an improving forecast, it will still take weeks for the state to return to normal after being pummeled by an historic rainstorm. South Carolina had problems with crumbling roads and bridges and old drinking water systems and dams long before the historic floods of the past week. Now the state faces what will likely be hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of bills to fix washed out roads and bridges and destroyed dams. | AP
    Floodwaters rush over a diversion dam Tuesday in Columbia, South Carolina. Despite an improving forecast, it will still take weeks for the state to return to normal after being pummeled by an historic rainstorm. South Carolina had problems with crumbling roads and bridges and old drinking water systems and dams long before the historic floods of the past week. Now the state faces what will likely be hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of bills to fix washed out roads and bridges and destroyed dams. | AP

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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Flooding from historic rainfall in South Carolina claimed two more lives on Wednesday, and the threat of further inundation from swollen rivers and vulnerable dams put already ravaged communities on edge.

Emergency responders in Richland County, a hard-hit area in the central part of the state, recovered the bodies of two people missing after a truck driven around road barriers was caught in floodwater, said Lieutenant Curtis Wilson.

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