AccuWeather's Bill Wadell reported live from Myrtle Beach on Sept. 29 as Tropical Storm Imelda, even while moving away from shore, continued to create dangerous conditions on the coast.
00:00Families hoping for a late summer vacation at the beach are stuck inside today along coastal South Carolina.
00:06Accuweather's Bill Waddell is in Myrtle Beach and I know Bill you've been talking with families you've been talking about how they're stuck inside and I know you're in the rain right now.
00:15Yeah that's right hey Anna and Jeff not many people out here to talk with honestly we saw one guy on his bicycle down here on the boardwalk and another person out here with their dogs getting out for a quick break in the past hour leaving these high-rise hotels.
00:29That's it not many people coming outside dealing with this rain or wind but we are seeing some families with their kids on the covered balconies looking out here and if you're in the Myrtle Beach area and you happen to be walking out I mean chances are just like us you're going to have a stretch of beach pretty much entirely to yourself.
00:45The good news we have not seen anyone close to the water here today in this part of Myrtle Beach and that's a good thing.
00:52Officials don't want anyone getting close to this rough surf you could see in the video that the red flags are up and they are blowing in the wind and the rain all along Myrtle Beach there is rough surf dangerous rip currents officials urging people please to stay away from the water.
01:09There are no lifeguards on duty right now Dennis Carroll is visiting Myrtle Beach from Sacramento California we bumped into him on the boardwalk his tea time was canceled today because of the rain but he tells us that he's glad the impacts from Imelda won't be lasting for too long.
01:28I've never been near a hurricane before never and when we saw it was headed this way we says that what should we do and there's not much we can do and then when we saw that it was headed out towards the ocean we weren't all that concerned much relief.
01:46Dennis is looking to actually relocate from the west coast to the east coast and he tells us he's willing to trade summers with wildfire smoke in California for summers and falls here in the
01:58Carolinas of course you do have to deal with the potential of a tropical storm or hurricane but the people that we've been speaking with here in the Carolinas tell us that they are relieved with the scenario of a larger more powerful Hurricane Umberto out in the Atlantic tugging at Imelda and pulling this storm away from the coast reducing the impacts here but again looking back such a stark difference with so far what we've been dealing with this hurricane season compared
02:26to last hurricane season I remember at this point this time last year we were in the mountains of western North Carolina covering the catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene spent more than two weeks on the road last year for Helene and then Milton again stark differences so far between this hurricane season and last hurricane season people here in the Carolinas very relieved by that there's still a lot of work going on to try and clean up and recover after last year's hurricane season and this year's season far from over.
02:53That's very true Bill and I don't know if it's just because I'm a baseball fan or because I find it relatable but if you think about the hurricane season as a baseball game we're still on about the bottom of the sixth inning there's a lot of baseball to be played here.
03:05Bill Waddell in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Thanks again Bill.
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