{"id":8096,"date":"2015-10-07T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:25:08","slug":"s-carolina-area-director-i-feel-so-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/s-carolina-area-director-i-feel-so-blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Carolina area director: ‘I feel so blessed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Boulware walked outside her home in Columbia, S.C., to survey the area. The pond had overflowed. The dock was totally submerged. Her car was partially submerged. Her driveway looked like a creek. Water ran under the house.<\/p>\n

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Jessica and Michael Boulware’s home in Columbia, S.C., after the historic storm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI feel so blessed,\u201d said Boulware, Central South Carolina Area Director for National Scouting Report.<\/p>\n

It could have been so much worse for Jessica; her husband, Michael, a native of Columbia; and their four young children.<\/p>\n

Four consecutive days of heavy rain \u2013 including a record 16.6 inches on Sunday \u2013 resulted in the worst flooding in the state capital\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

At last count, 17 South Carolinians had died from the flooding. More than 900 residents were forced into shelters. Tens of thousands were without power and water. More than 500 roads and bridges were shut down, including an 80-mile stretch of I-95. The National Guard was called in. A midnight to 6 a.m. curfew was implemented.<\/p>\n

Columbia hasn\u2019t seen anything like this in 1,000 years.<\/p>\n

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NSR Central South Carolina area director Jessica Boulware<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis was a historic event,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cAll of this [damage] was done by rain. We have a little damage, but others have lost so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Boulwares have not left their home much since the flooding began as a result of an upper-level low aided by tropical moisture in the atmosphere cause by Hurricane Joaquin. Although the skies have cleared, the aftermath of the storm hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re asking everybody to stay off the roads unless you have to drive,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cWe can drive in and around our house, but not much further.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public schools have been closed all week. Most of the private schools have been, too. Cardinal Newman High School, a Catholic school where Michael is employed as strength and conditioning coach, is housing the National Guard.<\/p>\n

Life has come to a halt for Columbia\u2019s workforce, most of which can\u2019t commute to their jobs. It has been quite an adjustment for the Boulwares, who are normally very active.<\/p>\n

Jessica, a former two-time All-America softball pitcher\/outfielder at Florida State University, is the pitching coach for the Puerto Rico national team; head softball coach at Cardinal Newman High School; and an assistant coach for her daughter\u2019s softball team.<\/p>\n

Michael, a former NFL safety for the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans and Minnesota Vikings and younger brother of former NFL linebacker Pete Boulware, is an assistant football coach at Cardinal Newman and head coach of his son\u2019s youth football team.<\/p>\n

Jessica met Michael at Florida State, where he was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference linebacker after an outstanding high school career at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, where he was selected South Carolina\u2019s 2000 Gatorade Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

Since the flooding began, Jessica has tried to keep busy by giving private pitching lessons in a facility attached to her garage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t been able to do any scouting,\u201d said Jessica, who joined NSR in August. \u201cAll of the games have been canceled. Nobody is going out to ball fields. I don\u2019t know when they\u2019ll be able to play again.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, she\u2019s not about to complain.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, personally, it wasn\u2019t so bad,\u201d she said. \u201cIt could have been so much worse. We\u2019re in a good place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica Boulware walked outside her home in Columbia, S.C., to survey the area. The pond had overflowed. The dock was totally submerged. Her car was partially submerged. Her driveway looked like a creek. Water ran under the house. \u201cI feel so blessed,\u201d said Boulware, Central South Carolina Area Director for National Scouting Report. It could … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[261,259,260,222,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}