Jonah Chester
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Rebuilding after a hurricane already takes years. How would Charleston recover after a Cat 5 storm? (opens the original)
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CHARLESTON — Buildings have been be smashed, walls have caved in, boats are sitting in the middle of streets. Debris blocks roads and renders many areas inaccessible to vehicles. And then there are the trees — or, rather, the lack of trees. Brandon Black, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, worked in Mobile, Ala., when Category 5 Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle in 2018. He says the deforestation was about 100 percent. The Post and Courier’s Rising Waters L
Is SC ready for a Cat 5 hurricane? Here's how Charleston would prepare for a storm worse than Hugo. (opens the original)
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CHARLESTON — It’s mid-September, and the oceans are near record hot. Wind shear is low, and the sands of the Sahara Desert are calm. Out in the Atlantic, everything is in place. What was a once-disorganized storm system begins to rotate around a center point, the eye. It has evolved from a loose grouping of thunderstorms to a very low-end cyclone. At the National Hurricane Center in Miami, meteorologists are watching this tropical depression. They’ve been monitoring the disorganized system near
About 600 million birds set to cross South Carolina as fall migration kicks off (opens the original)
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CHARLESTON — South Carolina’s summer tourism season might be over, but the state is about to welcome hundreds of millions more visitors. Thankfully, these tourists are small and pretty unobtrusive. During this year’s fall migration, which runs generally from late August to November, more than 80 million birds are expected to cross through Charleston County, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Statewide, roughly 600 million birds will make nighttime crossings through the Palmetto State a
Plan to buy Awendaw's controversial White Tract would add land to Cape Romain refuge (opens the original)
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AWENDAW — The S.C. Office of Resilience and Open Space Institute want to purchase and preserve a controversial piece of privately owned land on the border of the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. For years, Georgia-based Pulte Homes LLC has planned to build about 200 septic tank-dependent homes on land that pushes up against the refuge. The development on the so-called White Tract is opposed by conservation groups, who worry that the subdivision would pollute Cape Romain. The Open Space Inst
Possible record-breaking heat to hit Charleston, SC Lowcountry this week (opens the original)
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CHARLESTON — The National Weather Service is warning of potentially record breaking warm temperatures for Aug. 13 and Aug. 14. The dangerous heat comes just after Charleston notched one of its warmest months ever, with multiple one-day records. In an Aug. 12 hazardous weather briefing, the Weather Service’s Charleston office predicted that the heat index could hit 115 degrees along the coast over the two-day stretch, with other areas further inland potentially reaching 110 degrees. Night will br
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