2015: By the numbers

October flooding

$100 million

Estimated cost to rebuild flood-damaged Columbia Canal

541

Roads closed at peak of flooding

$137 million

Total estimated cost in state road damage from the flood

Feet high of water mark from waters that flooded shops at Rosewood Crossing

Inches of rain recorded on Forest Drive near Fort Jackson entrance Oct. 4

$5 million

Possible cost of rebuilding Old Mill Pond dam in Lexington

380

Homes flooded in Lexington County Oct. 4

Regulated and unregulated dams known to have broken in Columbia area

Dams that broke in Lexington County

96,829

People statewide who registered for FEMA disaster aid

$74 million

Amount aproved in FEMA disaster aid for individuals and households statewide

$33,000

Maximum amount FEMA could provide to each household affected

28,000

Richland County residents who applied for federal food stamp assistance after the flooding

6,000

State residents who applied for flood-related unemployment benefits

Days after Oct. 4 flooding before Columbia system-wide boil-water advisory was lifted

$376 million

Estimated crop losses to drought, flooding for state farmers this year

$711,000

Amount city employees earned in overtime pay during flood recovery

$1.8 million

Amount Richland County employees earned in overtime pay during flood recovery

$243,089

Amount Lexington County employees earned in overtime pay during flood recovery

$12 billion

Projected damage inflicted on Palmetto State

Sports

Losses for Clemson through 13 games; Tigers finished season as only undefeated team in country

Where Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson finished in the Heisman race, the highest finish ever for a Clemson player.

Clemson players named to All-American teams, the most in school history

Wins by University of South Carolina football team this year, the fewest in 16 seasons

By overall record, USC’s finish in the 14-team SEC

$3 million

Amount Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp will earn next season after being hired in December

$1.2 million

Amount former USC coach Steve Spurrier received after resigning in October

$7 million

Cost of the new naming rights of USC baseball stadium from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park

National rank of USC’s women’s basketball team for most of its 2014-15 Final Four season.

McDonald’s All-Americans in USC men’s basketball history, after Frank Martin signed P.J. Dozier last year

Classifications for S.C. High School League starting next year

Touchdowns this season by Chapin High quarterback Logan Bailey

467

Yards rushing by Westwood High’s Rudy Mitchell against Blythewood Oct. 23

Confederate flag

Years the Confederate flag flew on the State House grounds, first on the dome, then on a flag pole near the Confederate soldier monument, before coming down in July

Days it took for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds after nine African Americans were shot and killed during a Bible study in Charleston

Local, state government

Newly elected Columbia City Council members who could shake up political balance on divided council

$800

Bonus S.C. state employees got in the state budget

87 to 20

Vote when S.C. House members approved an increase to the gas tax, the first hike since 1987. The measure did not pass the Senate.

41 percent

Increase in cases the S.C. Department of Social Services opened after receiving reports of abuse and neglect under new leadership

366

Days in prison given former Lexington County Sheriff James Metts after he pleaded guilty to federal charge of conspiring to harboring two illegal immigrants at the county jail

25,875

Votes cast in 4-candidate Republican race to succeed Metts, won by assistant Lexington town police chief Jay Koon

$4,800

Price of investigation that couldn’t determine where Batesburg-Leesville Town Councilman Steve Cain was during an eight-month absence

Maximum minutes for Lexington County firefighters to finish new fitness test

$2.15

Property tax hike on a $100,000 home in Lexington County this year to help build a half dozen new fire stations

6,700

People on waiting lists for the Columbia Housing Authority’s two subsidized housing programs

9.5

Percentage increase in Columbia water and sewage rates approved by City Council in 2015

$778

Fair-market rent value for a two-bedroom home in the Columbia metropolitan area in 2015

Business, economy, development

$200 million+

Incentives promised to Volvo to build a Berkeley County plant

4,000

Jobs announced at new Volvo plant in Ridgeland

2,000

Jobs Volvo promised in first phase, by Dec. 31, 2023

$600 million

Investment Volvo promised in first phase, by Dec. 31, 2023

1,300

Jobs announced at new Mercedes-Benz plant in North Charleston

$442.4 million

Development in commercial shopping area along Harbison Boulevard

$2 million

Amount Richland County spent to acquire 4.2-acre site on Lake Murray for use to be decided

550,000

Additional square footage planned in Lexington Medical Center expansion

235

Maximum apartments and condominiums in redevelopment overlooking Congaree River in West Columbia

Stories in potential height of a proposed tower of apartments above downtown’s Lady Street parking garage, which would make the building one of the state’s tallest

153,000

Proposed square footage of the new Costco retail center slated to open in Columbia in August

$11 billion

New price for two nuclear reactors under construction at SCANA-owned V.C. Summer plant

$13.6 billion

Annual economic impact of the S.C. seaport on the Midlands’ economy

1.5 million

New retail space scheduled to be built in downtown and surburban Columbia in 2016-17

Downtown student housing

2,459

New beds opened for USC students, others

2,372

Beds planned for 2016

991

Additional beds announced

Community organizations

$10.9 million

United Way of the Midlands fundraising goal in 2015-16

Fort Jackson

180

Jobs cut due to cutbacks in the military

3,100

Number that might have been cut under an Army plan to downsize

$2 billion

Annual economic impact of Fort Jackson on the Midlands

Arts, music, events

$3.2 million

Grants the S.C. Arts Commission awarded various arts organizations

40,000

Estimated attendance at 2015 S.C. Pride Parade

3,098

Tickets sold for “Selma,” Nickelodeon Theatre’s most popular movie

163

Children who performed in Columbia City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker”

100

Shows at Music Farm in its first year

Works by artist Georgia O’Keeffe brought together for the first time in a landmark exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Art

Environment

Miles that would be crossed in Lower Richland County by a natural gas pipe many people have concerns about

300

Hogs killed since 2008 by hunters at North Island to save endangered sea turtles eggs from hungry pigs

69,000

Cubic meters of radioactive sediment that wound up in a coal ash pond near Hartsville before cleanup plans were announced in 2015

2,200

Savannah River Site nuclear workers who spent at least five years navigating a bureaucratic program intended to compensate them for illnesses they contracted at SRS

Gold mine in Lancaster County that received final state approval to begin digging for the precious metal

Days in June and July when temperatures reached 100 degrees or higher

Health, social issues

81,000

Estimated South Carolinians ages 65 and older with Alzheimer’s disease

3,820

Estimated breast cancer cases diagnosed in South Carolina this year, according to American Cancer Society.

814,560

People in South Carolina are food insecure, don’t know where/when their next meal is coming

Roadways

918

Fatalities so far this year on S.C. roadways

133,600

Vehicles traveling in most congested sections of Malfunction Junction, the intersection of I-20, I-26 and I-126

This story was originally published December 26, 2015 at 9:00 PM.