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  • Winter Weather Hotline Activated South Carolina residents with questions about the winter weather response can call the state’s toll-free hotline. Operators with the State’s Public Information Phone System are available 24 hours a day for as long as needed.
  • South Carolina moves to OPCON 1 Ahead of Winter Weather The State Emergency Operations Center is fully activated at Operating Condition One (OPCON 1) as state agencies respond to winter weather impacts.
  • Gov. McMaster's Federal Emergency Disaster Declaration Request Approved Governor Henry McMaster today announced that his request to President Donald Trump for a federal emergency disaster declaration to provide federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts to the winter storm has been approved.

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