This is a horrible situation for those who lost love ones, their homes and their cars. Prayers go out to all of them.
Last week South Carolina had the largest % of drought on the east coast. Last month, after several years of debating, a concerted effort was made by the state legislature to approve monies to start fixing roads and bridges. Even after this effort the numbers were woefully inadequate. And several times over the past several years the state has refused federal funding for various programs because of it's rebellious nature towards the federal government.
Now in a swing of four days, after epic rains, the state ends it's draught, seeks federal help, and will place funding of road repairs in the areas that had already received the lions share of funding prior to this event.
It will be interesting to see how Governor Haley handles this emergency. She has been receiving a lot of national interest by the Republican Party. She did a great job handling the Charleston shooting and getting the legislature to remove the confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds but the crisis the state is facing after this flooding inundates that crisis.
Edit: I forgot to mention that after more than two decades of the state ignoring the mandate to provide adequate education throughout the state, the South Carolina Supreme Court mandated a fix one month ago and after what appeared to be further stalling by the legislature, set a date last week that the plan must be in place next February. This state was one of the harder hit states from the past economic down turn. It just gave big public concessions to Boeing, Amazon and Volvo. Monies will be directed to Charleston and Jasper county for the ports. The health portion of the Department of Health and Environmental control has had a lot of criticism in the way it has handled abuse cases in the recent past. Not a good position for any governor.