Hurricane Florence - South Carolina National Guard Responds.
Flood waters continue to rise in Conway, S.C., impacting surrounding cities and neighborhoods to include Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sept. 25, 2018. South Carolina National Guard Engineers and Transportation Corps placed sandbags along Highway 501 to ensure roadways remain passable and communities are not cut-off on the main route to highly populated Myrtle Beach, S.C. They have laid nearly three miles of barrier protecting a mile and a half of road with sandbags and flood barriers to keep the road open from flooding. There are approximately 2,000 South Carolina Guards Soldiers and Airmen are currently on duty to support local authorities in response and recovery operations to the ongoing flooding in that followed Hurricane Florence's landfall. U.S. National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from Pennsylvania, Alaska, New York, Tennessee, Arkansas, Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and Georgia are also supporting the S.C. National Guard recovery efforts. (U.S. National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing, Public Affairs). Original public domain image from Flickr