Sanford makes plans for storm evacuations
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CHARLESTON
-With peak hurricane season approaching and the memory of Hurricane
Floyd still etched in many minds, Gov. Mark Sanford announced plans
Tuesday for additional lane reversals to ease traffic congestion in
evacuating the South Carolina coast.
The plan calls for additional lane reversals in Horry and
Beaufort Counties and tweaks plans for reversing the eastbound lanes
of Interstate 26 between Charleston and Columbia.
During the evacuation for Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Mr. Sanford
said, it took his wife, Jenny, and their children about six hours to
drive from Charleston to Columbia, usually about a two-hour trip.
Heating bills could rise, company says
CHARLESTON -South Carolina Electric & Gas is warning
customers that heating bills could rise this winter because of low
natural gas supplies.
With approval from the Public Service Commission, the utility can
increase its rates in October if wholesale prices for natural gas
rise.
SCE&G supplies natural gas to 267,000 customers statewide and
has about 564,000 electricity customers.
Residents clean up after two tornadoes
LIBERTY -Residents were cleaning up damage from two tornadoes,
about one-half mile apart, that ripped off roofs, toppled trees and
smashed vehicles in the Liberty and Wren areas of Pickens County.
Wayne Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service,
said that the Sunday tornadoes' average winds were about 60 mph but
gusted to 110 mph in Liberty.
Don Evett, the director of the Pickens County Emergency
Management Division, said that no one was injured and that the
damage did not justify an official emergency designation.
Man's drowning is ruled an accident
HILTON HEAD ISLAND -A coroner's inquest in the Turks and Caicos
Islands has determined that Sea Pines founder Charles Fraser drowned
accidentally in December after the boat on which he was a passenger
exploded.
The jury of four men and three women also recommended Monday that
no charges be filed.
A lawyer for Mr. Fraser's relatives said the family plans to sue
J&B Tours, which owned the boat.
Mr. Fraser and his family were on the chartered boat off the
north shore of Providenciales, the capital of the Caribbean islands,
on the day of the accident. Family members had testified that they
smelled gas fumes on the boat before it exploded.
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