DI News History - September 28, 2017

TEN YEARS AGO – 4th Annual Buddy walk

The September 27, 2007 issue of The Daniel Island News included an article about affordable housing on Daniel Island. The 2001 Affordable Housing Plan was moving forward with construction of new city-owned townhomes and the Parkside Condominiums on Blakeway Street near Daniel Island School.

The new housing stock joined the Humanities Foundation’s Seven Farms Apartments as part of a continuing effort to provide affordable workforce housing on Daniel Island. Seven Farms Apartments is located at the intersection of Seven Farms and Daniel Island Drives.

That issue of the paper also featured the annual Buddy Walk. Each year, the community gets a unique opportunity to celebrate people with Down syndrome. Funding raised through the Buddy Walk is used by the Down Syndrome Association of the Lowcountry to support programs such as baby packets for families of new babies with Downs, education for families and professionals, and self-advocacy programs.

FIVE YEARS AGO – Does Daniel Island attract lightning strikes?

In the September 27, 2012 issue of The Daniel Island News, we featured an article about whether or not Daniel Island is a “hot spot” for lightning strikes. The fact that Daniel Island is surrounded on all sides by water, giving the island its own sea breeze effects, may enhance its susceptibility to storms. “The sea breeze circulation, the proximity to a warm moist ocean, with plenty of moisture and lots of instability, those are all the ingredients you need for thunderstorms,” said Ron Morales with the National Weather Service of Charleston. “And once you get thunderstorms, now you’ve got lightning, and where you have lightning, you have potential for problems…You’re talking about, on a typical active, stormy day, thousands of strikes, at least in the high hundreds…for the Charleston, tri-county area.” Morales, who closely monitored all weather patterns impacting the Charleston area from the National Weather Service’s “mission control center” near the airport, acknowledged Daniel Island’s vulnerability to storms, but didn’t see any disturbing lightning trends.

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