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re: Y'all think we need an Irma watch thread?
Posted on 9/12/17 at 10:27 am to TiptonInSC
Posted on 9/12/17 at 10:27 am to TiptonInSC
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Has anyone heard about how bad edisto flooded? Haven't found much, yet. ....
Edisto got tagged again, unfortunately
EDISTO BEACH — Waves started crashing over the sand dunes and spilling into Palmetto Boulevard about 10 a.m. Monday, two hours before high tide.
A violent current pushed concrete parking dividers into the street and carved streams on the roadside. Before noon, cars and an orange shipping container stashed in a Bi-Lo parking lot were floating. Storm surge inundated the S.C. Highway 174 causeway, for a time cutting off residents who decided to ride out Tropical Storm Irma.
Town authorities estimated that up to 6 feet of ocean water had submerged a portion of the town closest to the beach.
But to the north, more water seeped in from the Wadmalaw River and surrounding marshland.
“We’re a little island with a palm tree sticking up,” Mayor Jane Darby said. “We’re surrounded by water. … We’ve lost the definition of streets.”
This Colleton County community was assailed Monday with wind and water from all sides, flooding it for the third time in two years. Parts of the town were submerged in an October 2015 rainstorm that washed over much of South Carolina and again less than a year ago in Hurricane Matthew.
It has been a trying few years for Edisto Beach, a popular tourist spot of 400 residents. It had survived rabid surf and erosion from a handful of tropical cyclones since Hurricane David blew through in 1979.
“It was thrilling for a little while,” Darby said of past storms. “We had big waves. But since 2015, it’s been one thing right after another.”
Most people heeded mandatory evacuation orders. But residents in about 40 homes stayed put.
Some regretted it. A family of four was among them. They were renting a home, the mayor said, when they saw the worsening conditions, grew anxious and decided to leave.
It was too late.
This post was edited on 9/12/17 at 10:32 am
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Posted on 9/12/17 at 10:33 am to 1801
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A family of four was among them. They were renting a home, the mayor said, when they saw the worsening conditions, grew anxious and decided to leave.
It was too late
So they died?
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