Overall Green alert Flood
in USA

Event summary

This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 4295
Death: 15
Displaced: 800
Countries: USA
From - To 01 Oct - 13 Oct

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 12 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

To survive South Carolina floods, ants build rafts from their own bodi ... Tue, 06 Oct 2015 20:53:00 +0200.

Fire ants and other insects swarm in water on the shoulder of Louisiana Highway 23 during Tropical Storm Lee on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. The mammoth floods in South Carolina have claimed the lives of fourteen people and left at least nine da
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Death toll rises to 10 in battered South CarolinaTue, 06 Oct 2015 04:23:00 +0200.

The death toll rose to 10, and millions of South Carolinians remained homebound Monday as state emergency officials grappled with catastrophic flooding following days of historic rains. Authorities also reported two storm-related deaths in
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S.C. struggles with historic floodingMon, 05 Oct 2015 18:27:00 +0200.

Caskets, cars carried away in South Carolina floods | 02:55. South Carolinians are struggling to cope with historic floods caused by the heaviest rain ever recorded in parts of the state. USA TODAY Raw: SC Hit Hard By Driving Rains And Flo
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Weather S.C. struggles with historic floodingMon, 05 Oct 2015 16:26:00 +0200.

Caskets, cars carried away in South Carolina floods | 02:55. South Carolinians are struggling to cope with historic floods caused by the heaviest rain ever recorded in parts of the state. USA TODAY Raw: SC Hit Hard By Driving Rains And Flo
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),