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Tim Scott marries Mindy Noce in intimate South Carolina ceremony: ‘We promised to cherish and nourish each other’
Sen. Tim Scott married Mindy Noce on Saturday, August 3, during an intimate ceremony at their hometown chapel Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Scott, 58, announced the news on X.
“Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” Scott wrote, sharing images of himself and Noce. “Mindy, you’ve made me the happiest man alive. I love you.”
He then shared the quote: “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Scott’s wedding to the 47-year-old interior designer was officiated by Seacoast founder Pastor Greg Surratt, who also counselled the senator during his GOP presidential bid, the Post and Courier reported. Scott’s older brother Ben was his best man at the wedding. Joni Blair, Noce’s best friend, served as her maid of honour.
Noce met Scott through a mutual friend back in 2022. Scott previously described her as a “lovely Christian girl.” Noce was seen with Scott on stage at the end of the third Republican debate on November 8 last year. A campaign statement later said that the woman with Scott “is his girlfriend Mindy.”
Scott and Noce got engaged in January this year after he proposed to her, saying it is “’the most exciting thing I’ll do with my life besides making Jesus my Lord.” He asked her to marry him on the beach in Kiawah Island in South Carolina.
‘Part of the blessing for me was not getting married before now,’
During their wedding, former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota were among guests inside the chapel. Also present were South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, Sen. John Barrasso of Pennsylvania, former US Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy.
Scott said that his wedding is a “blessing.” “Part of the blessing for me was not getting married before now,” he told the Post and Courier. He added that it took some time for him to learn certain harsh truths about love, saying, “Right girl, wrong time is a mess. Wrong girl, right time is chaos.”
“Like everybody else, I think we pretty selfishly want what we want. I think marriage helps you understand that maybe it’s not the only mission on the planet to get what you want, but it is to help others enjoy the journey of life, as well to be an ambassador of hope,” Scott added.
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No. 1 Tennessee Baseball at South Carolina: How to Watch, Complete Preview | Rocky Top Insider
Tennessee baseball is back in action this weekend as they head on the road to face South Carolina in a three-game series at Founders Park.
The Vols are coming off of a series victory over Alabama and are looking to pick up their third straight series win to open up conference play. Here’s how to watch, pitching matchups and other details ahead of the three-game series in Columbia.
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How to Watch: No. 1 Tennessee baseball (23-2, 5-1 SEC) at South Carolina (17-9, 1-5 SEC)
Game One:
First pitch time: 7 p.m. ET
Announcers: PxP: Dave Weinstein, CC: Grayson Greiner
Watch: SEC Network+
Game Two:
First pitch time: 4 p.m. ET
Announcers: PxP: Dave Weinstein, CC: Grayson Greiner
Watch: SEC Network+
Game Three:
First pitch time: 5 p.m. ET
Announcers: PxP: Tom Hart, CC: Chris Burke
Watch: SEC Network
Pitching Matchups
Game One:
Vols LHP Liam Doyle: 6 GS, 3-1, 2.03 ERA, 31 IP, 0.84 WHIP, 62 K, 11 BB
vs.
Gamecocks LHP Jake McCoy: 6 GS, 2-2, 6.57 ERA, 24.2 IP, 1.46 WHIP, 45 K, 12 BB
Game Two:
Vols RHP Marcus Phillips: 6 GS, 2-0, 1.47 ERA, 30.2 IP, 0.91 WHIP, 35 K, 9 BB
vs.
Gamecocks LHP Jarvis Evans Jr: 5 GS, 3-0, 3.42 ERA, 26.1 IP, 1.18 WHIP, 27 K, 7 BB
Game Three:
TBD vs. TBD
What To Know About South Carolina
Tennessee baseball faces off with ole friend Paul Mainieri this weekend. The former LSU coach is in his first year leading the South Carolina program after the Gamecocks’ fired Mark Kingston last offseason.
It’s been a pretty rocky start to Mainieri’s first season in Columbia. In pre conference play, Clemson swept a three-game weekend series against South Carolina. The first two weeks of SEC play haven’t been any kinder to the Gamecocks. They dropped two of three at home to Oklahoma before Arkansas swept them in Fayetteville last weekend.
At the plate, Ethan Petry has been fantastic this season and is hitting .359 with six home runs, 15 extra-base hits and 23 RBIs. Nathan Hall is off to a stout start to his season too, hitting .398 with four home runs, 11 extra-base hits and 23 RBIs.
On the mound, Dylan Eskew has been South Carolina’s top bullpen arm. In 20.1 IP this season, Eskew is posting a 1.77 ERA though he has been a bit erratic at times.
Quick Prediction
Life on the road in the SEC is never easy and I don’t expect Tennessee to waltz into Founders Park and coast to a series sweep. But Tennessee is a much better team and South Carolina has been largely unimpressive to this point in the season.
The Vols should win this series and sweeping is very much on the table. But my respect for the difficulty of sweeping SEC series, especially on the road, is keeping me from predicting it.
Tennessee wins two out of three
Wildfires continued to rage in North and South Carolina on Thursday, leading to states of emergency and evacuations as firefighters deployed from other parts of the US to help bring the blazes under control.
In North Carolina, progress was being made in containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the mountains, but officials warned that fire danger remained from dry and windy conditions.
The news was worse in South Carolina, where two fires nearly doubled in size on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people have been asked to leave their homes in the two states as a half-dozen large fires burn in the Blue Ridge mountains, spreading smoke into places like Greenville, a city of about 70,000 people in South Carolina.
Wednesday’s dry weather led to several new fires in western North Carolina and prompted the state’s governor, Josh Stein, to declare a state of emergency in 34 western counties. At least nine fires were active in that part of the state, officials said.
Quick Guide
US wildfire terms, explained
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Acres burned
US wildfires are measured in terms of acres. While the size of a wildfire doesn’t necessarily correlate to its destructive impact, acreage provides a way to understand a fire’s footprint and how quickly it has grown.
There are 2.47 acres in a hectare, and 640 acres in a square mile, but this can be hard to visualise. Here are some easy comparisons: one acre equates to roughly the size of an American football field. London’s Heathrow airport is about 3,000 acres. Manhattan covers roughly 14,600 acres, while Chicago is roughly 150,000 acres, and Los Angeles is roughly 320,000 acres.
Megafire
A megafire is defined by the National Interagency Fire Center as a wildfire that has burned more than 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares).
Containment level
A wildfire’s containment level indicates how much progress firefighters have made in controlling the fire. Containment is achieved by creating perimeters the fire can’t move across. This is done through methods such as putting fire retardants on the ground, digging trenches, or removing brush and other flammable fuels.
Containment is measured in terms of the percentage of the fire that has been surrounded by these control lines. A wildfire with a low containment level, such as 0% or 5%, is essentially burning out of control. A fire with a high level of containment, such as 90%, isn’t necessarily extinguished but rather has a large protective perimeter and a rate of growth that is under control.
Evacuation orders and warnings
Evacuation warnings and orders are issued by officials when a wildfire is causing imminent danger to people’s life and property. According to the California office of emergency services, an evacuation warning means that it’s a good idea to leave an area or get ready to leave soon. An evacuation order means that you should leave the area immediately.
Red flag warning
A red flag warning is a type of forecast issued by the National Weather Service that indicates when weather conditions are likely to spark or spread wildfires. These conditions typically include dryness, low humidity, high winds and heat.
Prescribed burn
A prescribed burn, or a controlled burn, is a fire that is intentionally set under carefully managed conditions in order to improve the health of a landscape. Prescribed burns are carried out by trained experts such as members of the US Forest Service and Indigenous fire practitioners. Prescribed burns help remove flammable vegetation and reduce the risk of larger, more catastrophic blazes, among other benefits.
Prescribed burning was once a common tool among Native American tribes who used “good fire” to improve the land, but was limited for much of the last century by a US government approach based on fire suppression. In recent years, US land managers have returned to embracing the benefits of prescribed burns, and now conduct thousands across the country every year.
The so-called Black Cove complex fire is currently the highest-priority wildfire in the US, according to an update from the North Carolina department of agriculture, with hundreds of firefighters working to battle the flames. States such as Oregon have already sent dozens of firefighters to assist with the efforts, deploying an additional 11 people on Wednesday.
The fires are burning in an area that were hit hard by Hurricane Helene in September. Millions of fallen trees from that storm are both providing fuel for the wildfires and hindering firefighters’ use of logging roads and paths.
The North Carolina forest service said that the Black Cove fire and the Deep Woods fire were each more than 10% contained on Wednesday night, after days of reporting zero containment for the two blazes. The fires have scorched nearly 6,400 acres (2,590 hectares) combined, but the size of the area burned has largely remained the same since the previous day.
Firefighters have managed to save most of the structures near the fires. Only one injury has been reported: a firefighter in North Carolina got his leg caught under a tree, officials said.
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There is rain in the forecast for the weekend, but it isn’t the kind of soaking downpour that can knock a fire out on its own, said the National Weather Service meteorologist Ashley Rehnberg in Greer, South Carolina.
“Hopefully that will at least calm things down briefly,” Rehnberg said.
The bright spot in the forecast for the next week is there is not expected to be an especially dangerous day when winds and dry weather reach potentially disastrous levels like they did in Los Angeles in January or Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in 2016.
Forestry agencies in North Carolina and South Carolina are already figuring out how to rotate teams of firefighters into and out of the mountains for what could be a long fight.
The fires in South Carolina were caused by humans. Authorities from local fire chiefs all the way to South Carolina’s governor are urging people to heed burn bans in both states and stop setting fires at campsites or burning garbage.
“We have people going out in the woods and in their back yards and starting fires when the wind is blowing and everything is dry,” said South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster. “We just have to use common sense. People get out in nature and they forget how dangerous it can be.”
The Associated Press contributed reporting
The widespread damage and loss of life caused by Tropical Storm Helene was unprecedented. The storm’s impact on the Upstate is still being felt — and will be for years to come.
Here are some numbers that illustrate the storm’s magnitude and devastation:
50: Number of fatalities in South Carolina as a result of the storm.
21.66: Inches of rain measured at Sunfish Mountain in Greenville, the highest total in the state.
77: Wind gusts, by miles per hour, recorded in Laurens County, the highest in South Carolina.
22: Sites in South Carolina that experienced record river flooding.
1.3 million: Homes without power in South Carolina during and after Helene.
2,500: Homes in the state that were destroyed or sustained significant damage due to the storm.
3 million: Total debris, in cubic yards, collected by the South Carolina Department of Transportation as of January 29. This does not include debris removed from county-maintained roads. Crews with Greenville County, for example, have collected 1.1 million yards.
1.3 million: Homes without power in South Carolina during and after Helene.
(Sources: the SCDOT, the SC Forestry Commission, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.)
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