The widow of a man who drowned in South Carolina's historic 2015 flooding is suing the federal government over a dam that failed on an Army base near Columbia, according to the Associated Press.
The lawsuit, filed in late December by Lois McCarty, seeks unspecified damages related to the death of her husband early on the morning of Oct. 4, 2015.
According to the suit, Bob McCarty was in his car at 6:30 a.m. that morning when he was swept away in floodwaters rushing from Semmes Lake, a 29-acre, man-made lake at Fort Jackson, the Army's largest basic training installation. The lake feeds into a system of creeks and other bodies of water throughout Columbia. McCarty alleges her husband was in an area below the dam when his car was swept away.
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