Photo gallery: East Coast storm, flooding

An emergency worker tends to power lines in Columbia, S.C. on Oct. 7, 2015.

Greg Ward, with the Kingstree Fire Department, searches for unstable propane tanks in downtown Kingstree, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015. “We’re pretty much an island right now,” Ward said of his small city.

Sarah Dillow helps move ostriches from their flooded pen on Oct. 7, 2015 in Givhans, S.C.

Roberta Albers walks around her home after the floodwaters start to recede at French Quarter Creek in Huger, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015.

Bill Cahill sprays off his pool deck as discarded furniture and insulation pile up in his yard after the floodwaters receded at French Quarter Creek in Huger, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015.

Rankin Craig watches as friends and family remove belongings from her flooded home in Forest Acres in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015.

Scott Berry removes belongings from his mother’s flooded home in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015.

Cathy Stinson, right, and Maria Mayer, left, help a friend remove belongings from her flooded home in Forest Acres in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015.

Flood waters cover a road in Summerville, S.C., on Oct. 7, 2015 as parts of the state are inundated after record rainfall amounts over the weekend.

Joe Ziegler, left, Steven Harmer, Alex Sanders, and Alex Scroggins help family and neighbors move a couch from flooding homes on the Waccamaw River near Conway, S.C., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

A resident looks down Mayfield St. as the Ashley river floodwaters rise in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Sean Nance walks through floodwaters carrying some work clothes as he evacuates from his apartment in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

This aerial photo show flooding around homes in the Carolina Forest community in Horry County, between Conway and Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Floodwater surrounds the Canaan United Methodist Church in Ridgeville, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Floodwater surrounds cars parked behind a home in Ridgeville, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Floodwaters rush over a diversion dam near homes in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, right, and Major Gen. Bob Livingston, left, view flood damage from a helicopter in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Water pours from a gate in the Lake Murray dam in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

This Title Max was destroyed by flash floods in Columbia, South Carolina, on Oct. 5, 2015.

Floodwaters close in on homes on a small piece of land on Lake Katherine in Columbia, South Carolina, on Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, showers had tapered off earlier in the day.

Floodwaters break through a walkway in Columbia, South Carolina, on Oct. 5, 2015.

Jeanni Adame rides in her boat as she checks on neighbors seeing if they want to evacuate in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of their neighbors left, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. South Carolina is still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

Flooded homes are shown in the Gills Creek area in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)  (Chuck Burton / AP)

Floodwaters rush down a river near downtown Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)  (Chuck Burton / AP)

Floodwaters encroach on a large home in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)  (Chuck Burton / AP)

Floodwaters rush through Gills Creek in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)  (Chuck Burton / AP)

James Savage, left, and his girlfriend, Ianna Fincher, with her dog Lucy, kayak down Mayfield Street in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of their neighbors evacuated Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. South Carolina is still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

Brenda Shields checks out the flood waters in the Ashborough subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of her neighbors left, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. Shields has been asking her husband to evacuate. South Carolina is still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

A man talks on his phone on his porch in floodwaters on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. The Charleston and surrounding areas are still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

Historic Charleston at the Battery has minor flooding still visible in Charleston, South Carolina, on Oct. 5, 2015.

Parts of historic Charleston homes sit in floodwater in Charleston, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. The Charleston and surrounding areas are still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

Parts of historic Charleston homes sit in floodwater in Charleston, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. The Charleston and surrounding areas are still struggling with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)  (Mic Smith / AP)

Hunter Baker surveys flood damage to his neighborhood near the flooded Black Creek following heavy rains in Florence, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

Military vehicles block a road near businesses damaged by flooding in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

A pickup truck rests against the side of Gills Creek near a bridge in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

Water surrounds homes and cars in the Black Creek neighborhood following flooding in Florence, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

Floodwaters surround mobile homes following flooding in Florence, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

This Oct. 5, 2015, satellite image shows Hurricane Joaquin out in the Atlantic and a major rain system over the southeast U.S.

The U.S. Coast Guard checks on boaters in Winyah Bay during the flooding and heavy rains in Georgetown,S.C., on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The rainstorm drenching the East Coast brought more misery Sunday to South Carolina, cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing “too many roads to name” because of floodwaters.

Several cars are submerged in the flood throughout Georgetown, S.C., on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

An American Red Cross van is stranded in floodwaters on U.S. Hwy. 17 North near Georgetown, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Several sections of Highway 17 are shut down between Charleston and Georgetown.

An American Red Cross van is stranded in floodwaters on U.S. Hwy. 17 North near Georgetown, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Several sections of Highway 17 are shut down between Charleston and Georgetown.

Traffic makes its way through floodwaters on Highway 17 North near Awendaw, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

A car is flooded in front of Winyah Apartments in Georgetown, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

A man paddles a kayak down a flooded street in Columbia, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

A man walks his dog through floodwaters during high tide on the Isle of Palms, S.C., on Oct. 3, 2015.

Bob Ashbaugh, of Pittsburgh, takes video of waves crashing over homes Oct. 3, 2015, on the Isle of Palms, S.C.

Will Cunningham, 14, rides his bike through floodwaters in Sullivan’s Island, S.C., on Oct. 3, 2015, while his friend Patrick Kelly, 14, takes the kayak route.

Dillon Christ, front, and Kyle Barnell paddle their canoe down a flooded street in Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 3, 2015.

Randy Shirley, of the Isle of Palms, S.C., walks through a flooded parking lot in front of The Citadel Beach House with his dog, Lulu, on Oct. 3, 2015.

The container ship El Faro, which the U.S. Coast Guard says has gone missing in the area of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas.

A man walks his bicycle through high water at the City Market in downtown Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 3, 2015.

A few hours before high tide, wind-driven waves crash into a fishing pier in Virginia Beach, Va., on Oct 2, 2015.

A customer walks to an open store in downtown Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 3, 2015.

A person walks along Market Street during a rainstorm Oct. 2, 2015, in Philadelphia.

A trio walks the beach in South Carolina on Oct. 1, 2015.

The sky is overcast on Eleuthera island in the Bahamas after Hurricane Joaquin dumped torrential rain across the eastern and central Bahamas on Oct. 2, 2015.

Hard hats hang from a post on the beach on Eleuthera island in the Bahamas early Oct. 2, 2015. Hurricane Joaquin dumped torrential rains across the eastern and central Bahamas.