I wonder if that would be the SEC's first consideration or would they perhaps consider moving the game to a neutral location?
Charleston is on the coast. Columbia is in the middle of the state. Is the flooding as bad there? We had to move our home game against ASU to Arizona in '05 after Katrina. It's one way to get a game in--at least, a conference game.
Based on what I'm reading on sports, news, & weather sites I would say the odds are increasingly likely that the game will be played at a neutral site.
There's only a difference of 100 miles tween the coast and the middle but some places more inland have received more rain than toward the coast. At least one dam has broken in Columbia.
It's a 100 year storm. There's flooding everywhere. Dams are falling/topped everywhere. Every major metro area in the midlands (Columbia, Sumter, Orangeburg, Lexington, Manning) all are getting some form of flooding. They are opening the spillway on Lake Murray for the first time since 1969. There's a couple missing firefighters in Richland County too.
Yes, but not because of flooding. Baton Rouge didn't flood during Katrina but there were a lot of power outages and fallen trees as well as the hotels were full of evacuees from New Orleans
The primary question in my mind is will the Columbia infrastructure and game day operations be able to handle a game Saturday. Based on what I've read and seen I don't see how they can. I would expect the SEC is going to have to make a decision by mid week. At this time, I see the game being played at a neutral location.
