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                                <p>Imagine a storm with the shredding power of Hurricane Hugo — only angrier — tearing through South Carolina.</p><p>Then imagine rain that just keeps coming for days, spreading flood waters a hundred miles inland and flowing 10, 15, and in some cases, 20 feet deep.</p><p>That's what would happen if a Hurricane Harvey-type storm made landfall in South Carolina and stalled.</p><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print"><div id="tncms-block-514051" class="tncms-block"><div id="gtm_dfp_medium_rectangle_InStory" class="text-center" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><!--Google Tag Manager Enabled--></div></div></div><p>"It would be a major catastrophic event," said Susan Cutter, the director of the Hazards and Vulnerabilities Research Center at the University of South Carolina. "It would overwhelm what Hurricane Hugo did. In some respects it's beyond our ability to imagine."</p><p>Flooding alone "would be like the 2015 flood on steroids," she said. </p><p>To put it in perspective, Hugo in 1989 was a Category 4 hurricane at landfall, just like Harvey. It killed 35 people, left more than 50,000 homeless and stranded half the state without electrical power. It caused $6.5 billion in damage — at the time the costliest hurricane in U.S. history — without serious flooding away from the coast.</p><p>By comparison, Hurricane Harvey wracked the Texas coast with 130 mph winds at landfall Friday night. The difference is it has stalled there as a tropical storm, dropping around 24 inches of rain by Monday with the potential to reach 50 inches in the coming days.</p><p>If Harvey happened here, the depth of the flooding prospects are horrifying, smothering large swaths of homes, woods and farmland deep into the state's interior, just like what Houston is facing now some 40 miles inland.</p><p>It would begin with winds ripping up the coastal communities. Folly Beach likely would be cut in half by 20 feet of storm surge. The Charleston peninsula and most of the low-lying islands largely would be underwater. Inland areas would be wracked by the storm then watch their rivers rise to swamp them deeper than they have ever seen.</p><p>"Oh, that would be absolutely terrifying," said Carolyn Ganis, who lives in the Crichton Parish in the Oakbrook community outside Summerville near the Ashley River.</p><p>Water rose to within 1½ inches of her home during the 2015 flood.</p><p>"I would not have a home and most of my neighbors would not have a home," she added about a Harvey-type threat. </p><div class="inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-right tnt-inline-width-default"><figure class="photo layout-horizontal hover-expand"
             
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