Watch: Road to Recovery Continues a Year After Floods
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Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) — For the first time since October’s historic floods Joseph Henry’s house is starting to feel like home again.
“Oh it was scary. Since we are on this corner we were catching all the water coming down the street and across the street,” says Henry.
He tells ABC Columbia they didn’t experience a large amount of standing water, but the little they had still did enough damage to require repairs.
The homeowner explains, “A whole lot of mold damage, and water damage stuff like that. From the work and the money stand point we wouldn’t have been able to do half of it, none of it.”
The American Red Cross and non profit disaster recovery organization the St.Bernard Project brought in a team of volunteers who wasted no time getting to work.
“The first thing that we did was repair the roof. We’ve also put in some french drains to try and trap that water that’s going to keep trying to roll towards the house and then mold remediation was the next big step,” says Leah Cossette with the St. Bernard Project.
The South Carolina American Red Cross opened 2,000 cases following the floods, 700 of them in the central part of the state. Making the historic rainfall South Carolina’s worst disaster in recent history.
