Flooding leaves Bridgeview apartment complex residents trapped
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Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days. - DUSTIN WATERS" />
Dustin Waters
Flooding closed off the main entrances to the Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days.
As days of heavy rain swelled the Cooper River, residents of the Bridgeview Village apartment complex were trapped. Even Monday evening, the community’s two main exits on North Romney Street remained impassable for most vehicles. With the help of police, residents of the 300-unit complex say they were able to move the dumpsters blocking a single-lane road that cuts through the woods surrounding the complex. Although it doesn’t have a name, that road now serves as the only way in or out of the neighborhood. But for the first few days, even it was too flooded to use. “They opened that up Sunday. So Friday, Saturday, Sunday — it was three days we were stuck here,” says Charles Smith, age 69, whose apartment looks out onto the knee-deep wat...