Photos: South Carolina flooding

In this image taken with a fisheye lens, Karen Whalen saves a picture from a trash pile in front of her flood-damaged home.

Trey McMillian looks over the damage done by floodwaters on a road in Eastover, S.C.

Eric Van Sant rescues possessions from a flooded home in the Forest Acres neighborhood of Columbia, S.C.

Jeanni Adame uses her boat to check on neighbors near Summerville, S.C.

Five-month-old Jeremiah Odum, left, and his 2-year-old brother, Braxton, rest in a high school gymnasium being used as a Red Cross shelter for flood evacuees in Rowesville, S.C.

Tara Saracina stands at her front door in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of her neighbors left.

James Savage, left, and his girlfriend, Ianna Fincher, with her dog Lucy, kayak down Mayfield Street in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C.

A vehicle floats in a small lake in the Forest Acres neighborhood of Columbia, S.C.

Floodwaters close in on homes near Lake Katherine in Columbia, S.C.

A business is destroyed by flooding near Gills Creek in Columbia, S.C.

A vehicle and a home are swamped with floodwater from nearby Black Creek in Florence, S.C., on Oct. 5, 2015.

Children play in the floodwaters outside of Conway, S.C. on Oct. 4, 2015.

David Linnen takes a yard rake to clear drains in front of Winyah Apartments in Georgetown, S.C., on Oct. 4, 2015.  (Mic Smith / AP)

Charlene Stennis takes her son Christian Hoo-Fong from a fireman after being stranded in a vehicle by Columbia, S.C., flooding.

A boy tries to stay on dry by climbing along a fence on a flooded street in downtown Charleston, S.C.

Farrell Rose and his fiancee Damita Trapp look away after floodwaters surrounded their home in Columbia, S.C.

Firemen, from left, Norman Beauregard, Kevin Ettenger and Chris Rodgers, inspect the floodwaters at high tide in the historic downtown of Georgetown, S.C.

A dog tries to board a boat as two men row down a flooded street in Charleston, S.C.

The roof of a car peeks above the floodwaters in Columbia, S.C.

James Atkinson attempts to fish in floodwaters near Garners Ferry Road in Columbia, S.C. after a record rainfall in the state.