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For the past few weeks, the South Carolina Emergency Management Division has had over 300 people in its office working around the clock due to Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the operations center was nearly empty.<\/p>\n
SCEMD is currently scaling back its emergency operations, even downgrading its status from Op-con One to Op-con Three, which indicates that the situation is no longer as dire as it once was.<\/p>\n
However, Derrec Becker, SCEMD\u2019s public information director, said that the disaster is far from over.<\/p>\n
With nearly a hundred roads and a few major highways in South Carolina still closed, and multiple emergency shelters in operation, South Carolina isn\u2019t free of Hurricane Florence\u2019s wrath just yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have areas that are still underwater. This disaster is still occurring. Fortunately though, most everybody is out of these areas, or they\u2019re in a place that they\u2019re high and dry,\u201d Becker said.<\/p>\n
Areas like Horry County are still experiencing severe flooding, and parts of the Lowcountry are still without power.\u00a0FEMA is here in the Midlands to assist SCEMD, and both agencies plan to open a joint office in the coming days in Northeast Columbia to deal with flood recovery.<\/p>\n
Residents in these counties are eligible to apply for FEMA assistance:<\/p>\n
To apply for FEMA assistance, residents with uninsured losses can call 800-621-3362, visit DisasterAssistance.gov<\/a><\/u>, or download FEMA\u2019s mobile app by visiting fema.gov\/mobile-app<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 1″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.15″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/scemd.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”3.15″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n South Carolina Emergency Management Division is scaling back its emergency operations, and is now focused on helping areas of our state recover from Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 2″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.15″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/scemd-people.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”3.15″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n SCEMD is joining forces with FEMA officials to open up a joint office soon in Northeast Columbia to assist those still in need due to the ongoing flooding.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The S.C. Emergency Management Division is scaling back its operations following Hurricane Florence, but an official said emergency officials are still dealing with the storm’s aftermath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":12495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[210,211,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12523,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}