Although East Coast utilities might have been relieved to hear that Hurricane Joaquin would remain out to sea instead of hitting the coastline as originally predicted, the storm still managed to inundate many states with extraordinary rainfall in early October, and it was South Carolina in particular that wound up seeing the worst of it.“We are at a 1,000-year level of rain,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said at a press conference held on Oct. 4. “That’s how big this is.”A 1,000-year rainfall means the amount of rainfall in South Carolina has a 1-in-1,000 chance of occurring in any given year,
Utilities Recover, Adapt in Hurricane Joaquin’s Aftermath
Cleanup and mitigation efforts are far from over after South Carolina bears the brunt of a '1,000-year storm'
Nov 11, 2015
| by Paul Nicolaus |
