Urgent: NC to Myrtle Beach routes?

Caver Dave

Caver Dave

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Very long story short... my folks evacuated to GSO from Sunset Beach, NC (southern most NC beach, a few miles north of Calabash NC/Little River SC) very rapidly last week. Since that time, my father was placed in Hospice care and there are some things mom needs from their house in SSB. Besides that urgency, and along with cursory interior check (relatives rode up from MB on Sunday to confirm no exterior damage, but couldn't see/check roof or inside), we need to empty fridge/freezer (no power for 5 days).

Our regular route, 220 thru Rockingham/74 past Whiteville/130 to some secondary roads... appears to be a giant swamp right now. GMaps shows the old route to MB (Rockingham to 15/501 = Cheraw/Bennettsville/Aynor) as being passable and we've confirmed that 17N out of MB is still open.

Anyone in that can confirm? We figure it'll take a couple hour more each way, but is still open...
 
Reached out to some family friends with a farm in that area that own land from Laurinburg to Bennettsville. Will post up if I hear anything back. He may be busy as shit depending on how bad some of his property got hit.

Best wishes for your father.
 
my brother had to go south on 95 then east on 521 to Georgetown then north on 17 to get to Little River
yesterday. all other roads were blocked. 501 may be open by now.
 
Buddy told me that on that Zello app (posted around here earlier that the cajun navy uses for rescues) there is a Florence travel channel. Folks are keeping track of open routes and providing guidance. You might try there.

Group name was something like "hurricane florence travel" iirc.

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There were some roads shut down yesterday going from Florence to MB. This might be a great help:

Road Conditions

Just click on the county and it list all that are closed. Marion shows 76 and 501 closed.
 
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The zello channel name is at the top of one of these. Been on it all weekend helping. Let me know if you need help
 
@Mac5005... Correct GSO to Sunset Beach.

Pretty sure 220 to 74 (Rockingham) to 38 to 15/501 (minor reroute around ponding) to 22 into MB is good to go. A cousin confirmed 17N is good all the way up to.near Bolivia.
 
My parents are en route to NMB now, I'm on the way tomorrow. From JoCo they took NC50 to US301 to NC87 to NC410 to SC9 to SC66 to SC905 to SC22. Just prior to posting this they were on 66 just about to the 22 overpass (there isn't an interchange at 22/66, so they have to go down to 905 and come back up). We planned this route before they left and they have reported no surprise road closures or detours via this route, and only slight traffic delays through some of the smaller towns. If you need me to do/check anything when I get there tomorrow let me know.

Duane
 
Just remember water still rising the further downstream you go as upper areas drain down. They say Wilmington waterfront will crest sometime next week.

In other words, keep in mind that route you take going down may not get you back home.

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@CLRracer ... just talked to relatives in MB that told us 22 is closed as if now due to likely flooding from releasing the floodgates at Lake Waccamaw.

I'm lobbying my Mom to stay put here with us and we all go down next week.
 
Caver Dave said:
@CLRracer ... just talked to relatives in MB that told us 22 is closed as if now due to likely flooding from releasing the floodgates at Lake Waccamaw.

I'm lobbying my Mom to stay put here with us and we all go down next week.
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Yeah I heard it was a possibility it would be closing tonight or tomorrow. I'm going to try 9 all the way to 31 (our usual route). SCDOT says its still open as of right now but some people are reporting flooding near Longs. If it's blocked I'll go into Conway and find a way around. I'll post up what conditions I find when I get down there.

Duane
 
CLRracer said:
Yeah I heard it was a possibility it would be closing tonight or tomorrow. I'm going to try 9 all the way to 31 (our usual route). SCDOT says its still open as of right now but some people are reporting flooding near Longs. If it's blocked I'll go into Conway and find a way around. I'll post up what conditions I find when I get down there.

Duane
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Pretty sure I read or heard that Conway was getting evacuated. That whole area has the waters that were released above still making it rise. Be careful.
 
Conway wasn't being evacuated, not all of it anyway, but it is the ONLY place to cross the Waccamaw River short of going to Georgetown where it dumps into the sound, or going north of Lake Waccamaw some how. We spent the better part of two hours trying to get through Conway though so it probably would've been faster to go to Georgetown. Otherwise no issues getting here.

Duane
 
So, we still haven't been down... some other things have been happening this past week, but will be heading down on Friday.

Thinking with all the localized flooding/closures in SE NC/NE SC, we'll just go I-40 to Wilmington and down 17... unless oddly someone has better info by Thursday?
 
We came home 17 to 40, no issues. How do you normally go down?

Duane
 
501 in Conway is only open due to sand bag damns. It's basically one lane in and out. Glad you got in got it worked out.
 
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