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Hurricane Florence flooding is still occurring - Here is a view of Conway, SC this morning
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:22 am
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:22 am
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Five days past record crest of the Waccamaw River in Conway and 4 days past record crest on the ICW in Socastee and both are still well above the previous record crest set by Matthew. The Waccamaw may not drop out of major flood stage for another week #scwx
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Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:23 am to GetCocky11
damn!!!
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:23 am to GetCocky11
Jesus, that's giving me flashbacks to the 2016 flood.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:25 am to GetCocky11
What is crazy is Myrtle Beach seems to be doing just fine and it's between Conway and the ocean.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:30 am to TigersSEC2010
I was in Conway/Myrtle Beach last week and the week before for work. Crazy how much Conway started flooding almost two weeks after the hurricane. Saw some sad sights. Myrtle Beach hardly had any damage though, as you said. The Waccamaw river runs right around to the south of Myrtle, and is surrounded by wetlands and marsh when it clears Conway.
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Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:49 am to GetCocky11
What is constricting the flow of water? Saw a similar situation with Alligator bayou
Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:55 am to GetCocky11
Thanks for posting the update because I had no idea how bad it was
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Posted on 10/1/18 at 10:55 am to GetCocky11
They need a few rolls of Bounty tossed at them. Would absorb that right up.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 11:02 am to crazyLSUstudent
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surrounded by wetlands and marsh when it clears Conway.
And those selfsame wetlands and marsh act as a billion mini-dams to stem the flow of water out to the sea.
All the debris that's coming down the rivers adds to the lack of flow.
farmlands and open fields don't slow running water, and the lack of extensive tree rooted soils means that the rivers and their tributaries don't cut newer channels or deepen the channels that they have.
Further, the barrier islands........are barriers and the water has to get out of the sounds through the existing inlets. I don't think this storm cut any new inlets through the sounds, and if the storm didn't do it, the Army Corps of Engineers certainly isn't going to.
All those retirees who moved to that area and who have no previous experience with flooding are going to have a really hard time adjusting. The Natives, too.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 11:06 am to GetCocky11
I can smell that water just from the picture 
Posted on 10/1/18 at 11:15 am to TigersSEC2010
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What is crazy is Myrtle Beach seems to be doing just fine and it's between Conway and the ocean.
This is backwater flooding, not storm surge. The flooding isn't from seawater pushed by the storm. It's a giant high water bulge in rivers as the massive amount of rainfall dropped upstream drains back toward the ocean. Because all the downstream channels are already full, the water coming from upstream can't effectively flow through the normal river channels and creates a bulge in the surface of the river. When the bulge is higher than the elevation of the land around the river, boom, flood. The bulge slowly travels downriver as downstream water starts to move out of the way and as long as the crest is higher than the surrounding land, it progressively floods the land around the river as the crest makes its way toward the ocean. At some point, the water will be able to move effectively again and the crest will drop below local flood stages and it will quit flooding stuff as it moves toward the ocean. This is precisely how the Baton Rouge area and points downstream flooded two years ago and, yeah, it's a fricking slow motion disaster.
By the time the bulge gets to the coast, it may be spread out so much that Myrtle Beach sees only elevated water levels, but no flooding. Anywhere that floods, though, is in for months to years of fricking misery and headache that lasts long after everyone else forgets about the flood.
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Posted on 10/1/18 at 11:16 am to GetCocky11
Amusing that the main stream media has not mentioned this of late?
Posted on 10/1/18 at 12:11 pm to real turf fan
Gotcha. Thank you for the info 
Posted on 10/1/18 at 12:48 pm to GetCocky11
My uncle's house in Myrtle Beach is still flooded.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 12:52 pm to GetCocky11
Conway native and resident right here. It is really messed up around here right now.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 12:56 pm to shallowminded
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Amusing that the main stream media has not mentioned this of late?
And reflect on the "SuperStorm Sandy" publicity. It wasn't even a Catagory 1, but it was close enough to New Yawk (sic) and if it's near New Yawk (sic) it's more important.
Said bitterly.
Posted on 10/1/18 at 1:02 pm to real turf fan
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And reflect on the "SuperStorm Sandy" publicity. It wasn't even a Catagory 1, but it was close enough to New Yawk (sic) and if it's near New Yawk (sic) it's more important.
Said bitterly.
Sandy impacted more people, ergo, the coverage was greater. Hell, it directly killed 71 people compared to Florence's 29. What's difficult to understand?
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