IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: James Island woman, 95, honored for years of nonprofit service
COMMENTARY, Brack: Henhouse politics must change on redistricting
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
NEWS BRIEFS: Red Cross needs volunteers, blood donors for hurricane season
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Brick and glass building
CALENDAR: From parties to contests and more
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: Book outlines how 4 presidents tackled difficult situations
COMMENTARY, Brack: Three months before national election, Trump is scared
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
NEWS BRIEFS: Tropical storm may turn into hurricane later today
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Did it move?
CALENDAR: Redux to show Williams’s art Aug. 10-28
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lords Proprietors of Carolina
Staff reports | With evacuation of the coast ordered by Gov. Henry McMaster starting at noon Monday, hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors will head west in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian’s arrival on Wednesday or Thursday.
Here are some links and resources that can help you prepare as you plan to leave or ride out the massive storm.
EVACUATION: McMaster orders coastal evacuation. Lanes will be reversed on Interstate 26 from Charleston to Columbia and on U.S. 278 from Hilton Head starting at noon today. Schools and government offices, already closed for Labor Day, will be closed Tuesday with many expected to be closed for the rest of the week. The Post and Courier. More stories: WIS TV; The State. Click this link to see these and more articles below.
Lane reversal process begins Monday morning. WCSC TV.
Charleston-area evacuation routes. The Post and Courier.
State price-gouging laws in effect. WCSC TV.
IN THIS ISSUE | Sept. 17, 2018
FOCUS, photos: Santee Cooper crews work hard to restore power
COMMENTARY, Brack: Be thankful for South Carolina’s public servants
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
GOOD NEWS: It missed us
FEEDBACK: On a national campaign for more civics in schools
MYSTERY PHOTO: A different kind of 21 Club
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Indigo
CALENDAR: Sign up to host a Lowcountry On the Table gathering
Staff reports | Lowcountry residents are being asked by state and local officials to prepare for a major hurricane, including the possibility of evacuation, as the Carolina coast braces for landfall later this week.
“Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best,” Gov. Henry McMaster said throughout the weekend.
Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg on Sunday said the city was getting ready.
“This is shaping up to be a major hurricane,” Tecklenburg said. “City government continues to get ready for whatever impacts the storm may bring. We ask that citizens do the same by reviewing your family’s plan and paying attention to any announcements from the Governor or other state emergency officials.”
IN T HIS ISSUE OF CHARLESTON CURRENTS:
FOCUS: Batten down the hatches: Get ready for Hurricane Florence
COMMENTARY, Brack: Let’s have a national media campaign on civics
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
GOOD NEWS: Host an Oct. 4 community-wide civic discussion
FEEDBACK: McMaster should apologize for dog “joke”
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bold, big clouds
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hurricanes
CALENDAR: Great week for wining and dining in the Lowcountry
By Marjory Wentworth, S.C. poet laureate
Boats fly out of the Atlantic
and moor themselves in my backyard
where tiny flowers, forgotten
by the wind, toss their astral heads
from side to side. Mouths ablaze, open,
and filling with rain.
After the hurricane, you can see
the snapped open drawbridge slide
beneath the waves on the evening news.
You go cold imagining
such enormous fingers of wind
that split a steel hinge until
its jaw opens toward heaven.
S.C. Encyclopedia | The term “hurricane” comes from the West Indian word “huracan,” which means “big wind” and is used to describe severe tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the eastern Pacific Ocean. In the western Pacific, hurricanes are known as typhoons. The development of a hurricane requires an area of low pressure in a region of favorable atmospheric and oceanic conditions. Ocean temperatures must be near or greater than 80 ̊ F and wind speeds at mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere must be light.
Staff reports | The American Red Cross has mobilized thousands of trained disaster relief workers, truckloads of supplies and thousands of meals to support the response effort following the hurricane that hit Texas over the weekend.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | An estimated 350,000 people along our coast evacuated for Hurricane Matthew in a withdrawal that didn’t turn out to be a disaster in and of itself.
Even if you plodded in traffic on Interstate 26, the Matthew evacuation was nothing like the one years ago with Hurricane Floyd. Even if you were without power for days or suffered in the flooding aftermath in North Charleston or in the Pee Dee, it’s pretty clear that the state’s disaster plan passed the test of working effectively and efficiently to restore normalcy as quickly as possible.
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