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Lake.This water is being pumped from a flooded Colonial Lake to the park's drain across the street. #chsnews#chswxpic.twitter.com/z1yAItuYE8— Abigail Darlington (@A_Big_Gail) September 12, 2017 +5 This water is being pumped from a flooded Colonial Lake to the park's drain across the street. Leroy Burnell/StaffBy Leroy BurnellBut reminders of the storm will abound: Signs of Monday's dramatic water inundation, scattered tree limbs and other debris, breezy — even gusty — conditions.A list of Charleston area road closuresIt will take more than a day to recover from the most powerful hurricane recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, an enormous storm that rolled up the Florida peninsula's Gulf side and scraped communities throughout South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.Tree-trimming trucks, on standby Monday, will spring to action. Lewis Tree Service had parked 26 trucks at the Holiday Inn Express in Mount Pleasant over the weekend. Other tree trimmers will hit the roads to clear fallen trees and debris as needed.The city of Charleston, anticipating a major post-storm cleanup, assembled a recovery team days ago, at the start of their emergency planning process, according to city spokesman Jack O’Toole. In addition to emergency responders, more than 200 city employees — mostly public service and parks department workers — will head out to address problems caused by the bad weather.The city has rented 12 mobile pumps that can be transported on trailers and taken directly to flooded areas to speed up the drainage process, O’Toole said.Mayor John Tecklenburg said the goal for Tuesday is to get the roadways open."That means clearing trees where they're down, assisting the power company to get power back on and making sure everyone is safe," he said.In Charleston County, about one-fourth of SCE&G’s 190,000 c... (Charleston Post Courier)
