WATERWORLD Eric Van Sant rescues possessions from a flooded home in the Forest Acres neighborhood October 5 in Columbia, South Carolina. The state of South Carolina experienced record rainfall amounts over the weekend, which stranded motorists and residents and forced hundreds of evacuations and rescues. AFP PHOTO
COLUMBIA, South Carolina: The death toll from record floods in the US state of South Carolina jumped to nine Monday, as tens of thousands of people lost power and had no drinking water.