The attitude I get in my part of Columbia is concerned but no hysterics or panic (yet).
I found a decent collection of unused sandbags in storage but alas no real sand source in the burbs. There is Lowe’s I guess. I need to make a count of how many I actually have on the truck.
My spouse is a tad on the very nervous side. At most I could protect the garage door area.
The lower yard is out of the question. Simply not enough.
This area didn’t flood during the last big one a few years ago when I almost had my last drink of water. None of the neighbors who have been here longer than us seem to be worried. We moved here about a year ago.
One of my higher ups lives a few hundred yards on past me down another street and nothing happened to her place the last time.
A guy who keeps a boat near me a little while ago that a big concrete place in Sumter had some huge amounts of sand available.
Even if it were true and 378 was ok to travel, that is a good hour ride at least. I get to go by myself and do all the labor.
Taking all that into account, I’d just assume buy as I needed from Lowe’s if I become an entry level sandbagger.
You should be OK in Columbia. It won’t be a picnic but if you didn’t get flooded out in the past few years, most likely you won’t this time.
I briefly lived out 378 while going to USC. I was behind the Vet hospital, but, what is now on the east side of 77.
There is a big dip in the road there that I would worry about flooding, but, the rest was pretty high.