Monday, 10/05/15 - N. Myrtle Beach, SC
After a weekend of constant, torrential rain, today was forecast for slightly less rain but still not a good day to travel. Fortunately, our guests, Mark & Barb Yoder were good sports about having to wait out the storm. Though we were safe in our marina, the area was still under a state of emergency and all stores, schools and businesses were closed, as were most roads.
Since we had all day, the ladies made us a marvelous eggs benedict breakfast.
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| Woo hoo. Anne actually won a round. LOL |
After lunch, we had our boating friends, Harry & Anne from Sasea over for a rousing game of Mexican Train.
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| Grilling in the rain |
Tuesday, 10/06
After nearly a week of historic rain and flooding, the forecast was finally indicating both Hurricane Joaquin and the massive low we were in were moving out of our area. Though the day was to be cloudy and breezy at times, the rain had stopped. Yeahhhh. Time to move - finally!
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| Finally leaving N. Myrtle Beach |
After moving to the pump out station to clean out our holding tanks, off we went.
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| A sign of things to come! |
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| Mark was great at looking for floaties in the river |
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| Lots of debris in the water today! |
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| Golfing gondolas stuck half way across |
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| Still brown, tannic acid water |
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| Lots of newer, large homes in the Myrtle Beach area |
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| Clean, brown water |
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Lots of new construction, too.
See the carpenters waving as we pass. LOL |
The farther away from Myrtle Beach we traveled, the worse the flooding. After 18" of rain in Myrtle Beach & 22" in the Georgetown & Charleston areas, the water was many feet above normal. As the tides rose, that only added to the misery!
Columbia, SC had it worst with around 25" of rain. The rivers actually weren't expected to crest until Sunday. Wow!
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| This truck is stuck |
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| Heartbreaking. For them, the worst is yet to come! |
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| They didn't move their boat soon enough! |
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| Mark watching carefully as Jim went below |
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| The American Legion |
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| A swing bridge we passed |
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| A new bridge under construction |
These pictures of the flood really didn't do a good job capturing just how high the water was and just how devastating it was for the homeowners who built along the water. This was called the 1000 year flood. A level never seen before. Let's hope it never comes again!
This is the first half of this day of travel. More to come on the next blog entry.
Monday, 10/05/15 - N. Myrtle Beach, SC
