COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Ten years after the 1000-year floods wreaked havoc across South Carolina, one Midlands business owner is taking us back to that time.

Michael Marshay, the owner of local business Forest Lake Fabrics, remembers the day he nearly saw his life’s work washed away.

“Sunrise, I started moving, and I drove down and saw what we were up against,” Marshay said. “As far as I could get was over at Trenton Plaza, looking over here, and I could see that I was catching about six feet of water in the store.”

He recalled the severe amount of damage that the store incurred.

“All of the windows were blown out. The back of the building was blown out. All the inventory was destroyed. Everything in the building was destroyed up to six-and-a-half feet,” he said.

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