My how our memories are clouded. Do you gentlemen remember that this Santee river area of South Carolina is the home of Archibald Rutledge and how he talked of the Santee river in flood stage being 3 miles wide while he was out in it duck hunting. It has flooded for untold centuries in that area of the world.
Knee deep water will be just an inconvenience to Georgetown, where 26 years ago last month a hurricane called Hugo brought a flood of seawater 16 feet deep to the little village of McClellanville (across the river from Georgtown) Where Mr. Rutledge was born and died. That area of South Carolina deals with too much water just like Venice, Italy--it is just what happens and we go on doing what we have always done.
The people of South Carolina are accustomed to adverse conditions it seems to me. 150 years ago when uncle Sherman was in Columbia, SC it was too dry and hot; now it is too wet and cool--but I bet Columbia will shrug it off; and the Southern SxS will be just fine and the weather will be beautiful, and all the water will have filtered down through the sandy soil there to fill ground water supply.
I will drive down and see you gentlemen thee.
