The South Carolina Highway Patrol and Department of Public Safety began the process of “flushing” Interstate 26 on Tuesday morning, September 11, in order to reverse lanes for coastal evacuations ahead of Hurricane Florence.

South Carolina Gov Henry McMaster issued evacuation orders for all of the state’s coastal counties. To facilitate the evacuations, traffic on all lanes of I-26 will be traveling westbound.

The first video shown here was shot on I-26 in Columbia. Credit: South Carolina Department of Public Safety via Storyful