
Goldfinch and Hewitt: Recent flooding spotlights need for evacuation highway
In the month of September, Georgetown and Horry counties faced a disaster on two fronts. First, as Hurricane Florence slowly moved toward the coast we faced a strengthening category four storm. Then, as it moved ashore in North Carolina, we watched the storm stall and dump up to 17 inches of rain into the watershed that drains into rivers that feed into Winyah Bay. Both of these scenarios required the local Emergency Operations Centers to call for evacuations of the affected