Hurricane Joaquin may be less of a threat than was feared,but South Carolina could see an entire autumn’s worth of rainfall in a ‘behind-motion disaster’President Barack Obama on Saturday declared a state of emergency in South Carolina after severe storms caused widespread flooding, the White House said in a statement. Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts and authorized federal agencies to coordinate disaster relief efforts, or the statement said.
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Source: theguardian.com