Looking for records from Loris? Roof collapse during Florence likely destroyed them
Rain from the slow-moving storm -- which made landfall in
The records room is where the city keeps hard copies of important documents including property deeds, personnel files, meeting minutes, business contracts, tax information and historical papers, Kempski said. The deeds can be recovered, he said.
"The more we talk about it, the sicker we get," he said.
There are no laws requiring local governments to maintain backups of records, according to
If an agency produces microfilms of records deemed of permanent value, including deeds and rights-of-way, the department requires they store a security copy with the state, Harris said, but they don't require agencies to create microfilms.
Kempski told
Once insurance representatives and
So much rain fell into the records room after the roof collapse that pressure from the water broke the closed door in half, spilling water throughout the building, he said.
The portion of the roof that collapsed is fairly flat and lower than most of the roof, so the rain likely accumulated there for a while before the collapse, Kempski said.
Kempski guessed that city employees would be displaced for at least a year. They currently are working out of the city's public safety building, at
While most the records and office furniture were destroyed, Kempski said, they were able to save some important items, including the city's first postmaster's desk and paintings of previous mayors.
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