""While the storm's arrival, speed, and intensity remain hard to predict, we do know that it will bring significant wind, heavy rainfall, and flooding across the ENTIRE state of South Carolina," McMaster said in a statement Friday. "We have seen this before. Now is the time to start paying attention to forecasts, updates, and alerts from official sources and begin making preparations," he said."
"The system is currently tracking across parts of the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and is expected to affect eastern Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Haiti through the weekend as it intensifies. Parts of the central and northwestern Bahamas were already experiencing moderate to heavy rainfall Sunday morning, with a storm surge as high as three feet expected to rise later in the day and into the evening, according to the Bahamas Department of Meteorology."
Parts of the southeastern United States are preparing for Tropical Storm Imelda one year after Hurricane Helene caused casualties and damage. South Carolina declared a state of emergency as Imelda approaches the East Coast. Forecasters upgraded the system from a tropical depression to Tropical Storm Imelda as it tracked across the Caribbean and expected to affect Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. The Bahamas reported heavy rain and a storm surge up to three feet. The National Hurricane Center warned Imelda could become a hurricane by late Monday or Tuesday and expected tropical-storm conditions along central Florida’s East Coast, with heavy rainfall posing flooding risks in the Carolinas.
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