12:30 p.m. ET, September 19, 2018
Water in this South Carolina city could crest next week
From CNN's Nick Valencia
Homes are surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Florence on Monday in Conway, South Carolina.
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Water in Conway, South Carolina, won't reach its highest levels until next week, officials said.
“We are hearing that the water may not crest until Tuesday or Wednesday. It won’t reach the highest model until next week,” spokesperson for the city of Conway Taylor Newell said.
“We had some flash floods. The water is now receding from those flash floods, but we expect more flooding in the next few days,” Newell added.
The city is preparing for flooding worse than it saw in 2016, when Hurricane Matthew hit.
“The flooding is expected to be four feet higher than Matthew was in Conway,” Newell said “There are areas that weren’t impacted during Matthew that will be impacted this time around.”