CHARLESTON, S.C. – A slow-moving cold front that helped protect the Eastern Seaboard from a direct strike by Hurricane Erin is now set to soak much of the South and Southeast Friday, dampening the end of the week and bringing a risk of flash flooding .

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The front has been slowly cutting south across the East but is running into an atmospheric roadblock on Friday as it reaches the Gulf Coast, according to the FOX Forecast Center. And while Hurricane Erin is now racing away from North America, strong flow behind the storm is smashing into the frontal boundary, enhancing the available rainfall for Friday.

The greatest risk of flash flooding will stretch from around Charleston , South Carolina , through that state's Low Country and into southeastern Georgia , includi

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