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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

815 PM EDT SAT AUG 17 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR BURKE

COUNTY...



HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED IN BURKE COUNTY...AND THE FLOODING REPORTED 

EARLIER HAS LEVELED OFF...AND SOME WATER WAS BEGINNING TO RECEDE.  

HOWEVER...SOME HIGH WATER AND FLOODED AREAS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE 

THROUGH THE EVENING.  AS NIGHT SETS IN...IT WILL BECOME DIFFICULT TO 

DETECT FLOODED ROADS AND BRIDGES WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE 

COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN SECTIONS NEAR ICARD.



DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD

BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE

SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER.



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JONES

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