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Columbia Tree and Appearance Commission (CTAC)  Seeking to fill one (1) vacancy. The Columbia Tree and Appearance Commission has the following powers and duties: To review and recommend policies and ordinances affecting the planting, removal and preservation of trees on public and private property; provide advice on the allocation of resources and policies for the planting, care and removal of trees in the City of Columbia; serve as an advisory body to the City Forestry and Beautification Superintendent in the administration of this article; review and make recommendations related to the Ci...

More sunshine today, nice stretch of weather through midweek High temperatures will be in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees through the end of the week. Author: Danielle Miller (WLTX) Updated: 4:45 PM EST January 3, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. — The rain is finally moving out of South Carolina and sunshine is in the forecast for the next couple of days. High pressure is helping to usher in drier air behind the cold front that pushed through last night. This will lead to some breezy conditions through our Sunday afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20-25 mph out of t...

Creek basins, it will fill up rivers like this one and send all of the water cascading back down states towards the coast where it will add stress to river systems that have already been stressed by hurricane florence as it swept over the state on its way here. so that's why this river is actually being swelled right now. this river has risen not because of hurricane florence. it rose deliberately because people here, authorities, tried to release some of the dams, tried to release some of the pressure on levies here to try to stop flooding that had happened back in 2015, to try to keep a repe...

That already was breached three years ago, causing 15 to 25 deaths. that's what people are worried about here, more flash flooding and a delayed response from the effects of hurricane florence as it climbs into the appalachian mountains and releases still more moisture. and that's why even though it looks like south carolina might have avoided the worst of hurricane florence, the worst might still be yet to come for this state. david? >> on the banks of the ever rising congaree river there in columbia, south carolina, thank you very much, matt. an accusation and a denial in the 11th hour as ...

Slowly, and that's what this area of the country is going to have to be enduring for probably something like the next 48 hours. and that's a problem because if you look behind me, this river, the congaree river, it's already swollen quite a bit. that's deliberate. that's because officials here have tried to release some of the dams, release some of the levees to release stress on the water system here, to prevent flooding, to prevent streams and rivers from breaching their banks and causing injuries and causing flooding throughout the whole region. now, with the storm moving through, that's an...