"We haven't had this level of rain in the low-country in a thousand years -- that's how big this is," said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Days of record rainfall and catastrophic flooding left at least seventeen people dead in South Carolina and two dead in North Carolina, Oct. 6, 2015. Thirteen dams have failed.
In this photo, Charlene Stennis takes her son Christian Hoo-Fong from a fireman after being stranded in a vehicle by flood water on Oct. 4, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina.