World News for Students of English

12-10-2015 07:00

From this vantage point, the view is clear. This footage was shot by a drone and shows the scope of the flooding in South Carolina.

Residents have also captured the floods and posted videos to social media – this one showing the Gills Creek Parkway and Rosewood in South Carolina underwater.

Unprecedented rainfall and rising waters have resulted in nine deaths and trapped hundreds of people in homes and cars.

This is how residents are having to battle the water. Some have had to give up on other forms of transport. More than 2 feet (0.6 metres) of rain has fallen in the past three days in some parts of the state.

Governor Nikki Haley warned residents to remain on alert as rain continued to fall in some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state capital of Columbia, which saw its wettest day on record over the weekend.

Difficult words: vantage point (a good position from which you can see something), footage (a video), scope (the size), resident (a person who resides – lives somewhere), unprecedented (never having happened so much), trapped (to be not able to leave), on alert (ready to deal with a difficult situation).

Source: www.ondemandnews.com