foot (12-meter) shipping containers toppled in Charleston's sprawling port complex. More than 120,000 people were without power. "We expect that number to go higher," said Robin Montgomery, a spokesman for South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. "We don't want to send crews out in these high winds. We're experiencing significant tree damage, and as you know, tree damage and power lines don't go well together." One person was injured in Mount Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, when a tree fell on a house, Charleston County Administrator Roland Windham said. Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley Jr. urged people to stay indoors because streets were strewn with power lines, and traffic lights were out. "It's a really dangerous situation," he said. More than 8 inches (20 cm) of rain fell in three hours in some areas, turning streets into small lakes. The flooding was made worse from soils already saturated with heavy rains from Hurricane Charley and the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie, two storms that hit the area earlier this month. --more 2325 Local Time 2025 GMT
