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No. 1 item thrown away by Americans, and the Department of Health & Environmental Control is leading an effort to cut down on food waste across South Carolina.If you've tired yourself out from creating new recipes with your Turkey Day leftovers, try feeding people instead of our landfills. Food donations are a great way to provide surplus food to those who need it while recycling your leftovers.If you cannot donate or reuse your leftovers, try composting it. Sending food waste to a composting facility or composting at home can improve soil health and structure, increase water retention, support native plants and reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides.After the feast, recycle the greaseThanksgiving can also cook up some plumbing disasters if you're wrongly disposing of your cooking fats, oils and greases.[embedded content]While it seems tempting, do not flush a pan full of oil down your sink. There are many recycling centers across our state that will take your old fats, oils and greases. Keep these tips in mind:• Don't pour oil down your drain or toilet: It can clog your pipes and/or the city sewer mains.• Don't dispose of oil in compost bins or piles.• Fats in general are bad for compost, and cooking oil is nothing but fat.• Don't pour hot oil into the trash.For more information on composting, recycling and DHEC's Don't Waste Food SC program, visi...
Caribbean last week.But the toll was rising. A spokesman for the Florida governor reported 12 deaths in the state. There have been four fatalities in South Carolina and two in Georgia, according to the Associated Press.Florida’s storm-imposed isolation was easing. Although gasoline was still hard to come by in much of the state, frustrating motorists, Miami International Airport reported that it was gradually resuming service Tuesday but advised people to check with airlines to make sure their flights were actually scheduled.As far away as Atlanta, hundreds of flights were canceled Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic, where gusts up to 64 mph were reported.In Florida, the port of Tampa reopened Tuesday afternoon to big ships, which will allow fuel tankers to make much-needed deliveries.A?n army of work crews was mobilized to try to restore electricity, which was cut for nearly three-quarters of Florida’s homes and businesses, crippling commercial activity and hampering recovery efforts.Florida’s electricity cutoffs affected 15 million people, Christopher Krebs, an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, said at a briefing in Washington on Tuesday — a figure extrapolated from utilities’ reports that nearly 6 million customers had lost power, with each account representing more than one person. Other estimates were lower, in the neighborhood of 10 million affected — still half the state’s population — and the numbers were fluctuating as some repairs were carried out more quickly than others. Utility crews were working around the clock, officials said, including an additional 30,000 workers from out of state, the governor told reporters.Some progress was being reported, though. Florida Power and Light said it hoped to have service restored to many of its customers on the Atlantic Coast in the next five days, although damage was worse — and will take longer to fix — on the Gulf of Mexico side.In South Carolina, utility officials reported progress in halving the number of outages from a peak of about 250,000 customers affected. But some of those gains were wiped out by fresh power cuts in the state and elsewhere as the remains of the storm moved north.In signs of nascent normality, curfews were being lifted in storm-stricken Florida cities and cruise-ship passengers were disembarking after voyages extended by the storm.“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but everybody’s going to come together and get this state rebuilt,” Scott, the governor, said.The peninsula’s major population centers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, including Miami in the east and Tampa-St. Petersburg in the west, suffered considerably less damage than feared as the storm’s track veered away from them.But parts of the Keys, a fragile archipelago linked to the mainland by a single roadway and 42 bridges, faced a longer road to recovery.The head of the Federal Emergency Management Age... (Los Angeles Times)
Carolinas, knocking out power to thousands of people Monday. (Photo: WCNC)CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- From flooding in the Low Country of South Carolina, to crews working to remove downed trees from power lines and homes, the Carolinas are beginning to clean up after Irma roared through the region Monday and Tuesday. After moving north through Georgia overnight, the National Hurricane Center downgraded Irma to a post-tropical cyclone at 5 a.m. The storm's maximum sustained winds were just 15 mph as it moved north-northwest toward the Alabama-Georgia border Tuesday morning. The worst of the storm reached the area late Monday, with Charlotte seeing wind gusts up to 45 mph. Grandfather Mountain saw the strongest gusts at 62 mph Monday. At least 18 school districts in the Charlotte area operated on a two-hour delay Tuesday morning due to widespread power outages caused by Irma. In Cleveland County, three schools were forced to be closed all day after crews were unable to restore power in time for classes. At one point during the storm, South Carolina officials said nearly 200,000 homes were without power. By 11 a.m., Duke Energy was still reporting over ... (WCNC)
Caribbean last week.But the toll was rising. A spokesman for the Florida governor reported 12 deaths in the state. There have been four fatalities in South Carolina and two in Georgia, according to the Associated Press.Florida’s storm-imposed isolation was easing. Although gasoline was still hard to come by in much of the state, frustrating motorists, Miami International Airport reported that it was gradually resuming service Tuesday but advised people to check with airlines to make sure their flights were actually scheduled.As far away as Atlanta, hundreds of flights were canceled Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic, where gusts up to 64 mph were reported.In Florida, the port of Tampa reopened Tuesday afternoon to big ships, which will allow fuel tankers to make much-needed deliveries.A?n army of work crews was mobilized to try to restore electricity, which was cut for nearly three-quarters of Florida’s homes and businesses, crippling commercial activity and hampering recovery efforts.Florida’s electricity cutoffs affected 15 million people, Christopher Krebs, an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, said at a briefing in Washington on Tuesday — a figure extrapolated from utilities’ reports that nearly 6 million customers had lost power, with each account representing more than one person. Other estimates were lower, in the neighborhood of 10 million affected — still half the state’s population — and the numbers were fluctuating as some repairs were carried out more quickly than others. Utility crews were working around the clock, officials said, including an additional 30,000 workers from out of state, the governor told reporters.Some progress was being reported, though. Florida Power and Light said it hoped to have service restored to many of its customers on the Atlantic Coast in the next five days, although damage was worse — and will take longer to fix — on the Gulf of Mexico side.In South Carolina, utility officials reported progress in halving the number of outages from a peak of about 250,000 customers affected. But some of those gains were wiped out by fresh power cuts in the state and elsewhere as the remains of the storm moved north.In signs of nascent normality, curfews were being lifted in storm-stricken Florida cities and cruise-ship passengers were disembarking after voyages extended by the storm.“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but everybody’s going to come together and get this state rebuilt,” Scott, the governor, said.The peninsula’s major population centers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, including Miami in the east and Tampa-St. Petersburg in the west, suffered considerably less damage than feared as the storm’s track veered away from them.But parts of the Keys, a fragile archipelago linked to the mainland by a single roadway and 42 bridges, faced a longer road to recovery.The head of the Federal Emergency Management Age... (Los Angeles Times)
By the afternoon, its storm status likely could be revoked. Merely a tropical depression, its track puts the next stop as western Tennessee.South Carolina will be in the clear, facing a pretty nice day with periods of sun, increasing in the afternoon, a high temperature of 84, a low chance of rain and some breeze from the south-southwest, according to AccuWeather.High tides are at 12:50 p.m. and 7:07 p.m., but they are not expected to generate anything more than regular nuisance flooding.Tuesday morning, the city of Charleston had deployed about four pumps to the most flooded areas downtown, including Colonial 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... (Charleston Post Courier)
