[Magdalen] How's the weather in South Carolina

[Grace Cangialosi]

I just talked to my daughter, who is with HealthSouth in Charlottesville. They have a hospital in Columbia, SC. She said they've been told they won't have water for a week. Staff is having difficulty getting back and forth from home to work.

> On Oct 5, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Lynn.  We have been dry for the most part today.  Sprinkling rain
> has continued and gray skies.  I sent a request to parishioners this
> morning to ask them to report on their conditions.  Some with water in
> their yards, but no one reporting water in their houses yet.  Columbia, SC,
> our capitol city, was badly flooded, much worse than the lowcountry from
> video I've seen.  Columbia is situated in a valley of sorts, which makes
> accumulation of water a problem.  SC will be a long time digging out...in
> the lowcountry the infrastructure is damaged, from bridges to the earth
> beneath roads to the black top.  Also warnings are out about trees being
> vulnerable to uprooting in the soggy ground.
> 
> But, today we are okay.
> 
> Thanks for your prayers.
> Ginga
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just catching up on 3 day's of email but SC has been in my thoughts and
>> prayers.
>> Lynn
>> 
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>> 
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>> by Richard Rohr
>> 
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>> From: "Ginga Wilder" <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 5:28 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] How's the weather in South Carolina
>> 
>> 
>> Summerville area has had a reprieve from the rain today, but they are
>>> back.  We will have moderate rainfall through the night.  6 PM weather
>>> reports that people who love South of I-26 (Summerville and Charleston)
>>> will get 3-6 more inches of rain before this goes away tomorrow.  People
>>> who live above 1-26 (Moncks Corner and Georgetown) will get as much as 12
>>> more inches through the night.  Summerville has already had over 13
>>> inches,
>>> wo we may reach near 20 inches for the storm.
>>> 
>>> Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to rising
>>> water inside....reports of 4 - 6 - 7 feet in houses.  Evacuations has been
>>> ordered in Dorchester County (my county) who live within a mile of the
>>> Edisto to evacuate immediately.  It's not over yet.
>>> 
>>> Please pray for those in harms way in South Carolina.
>>> Ginga
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Lord have mercy.
>>>> 
>>>> Eleanor
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sunday, October 4, 2015, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some areas (Francis Marion Forest and Georgetown) of the SC lowcountry
>>>> have
>>>>> had 18 - 24 inches of rain in the past 24 hours.    Right now
>>>> precipitation
>>>>> is just a sprinkle.  Summerville has had 10 inches, with 3-6 more
>>>> expected
>>>>> this afternoon and tonight.  The storm is expected to curl back around
>>>>> to
>>>>> hit Charleston and vicinity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ginga
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Summerville is a mess this morning.  Low lying neighborhoods are
>>>> flooded
>>>>>> with 4 ft to chest deep water.  We cancelled church because roads are
>>>>>> either closed or too dangerous to travel.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> John and I remain dry inside.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ginga
>>>> 
>>>>