Myrtle Beach bans tents & umbellas

wbwood wrote:

mosseater wrote:
Looks like the beaurocracies are running out of ways to control folks lives. We're really down to this? We went to NJ beaches for decades and everybody puts their towels and chairs down and lets them there. Outside of visibility near the water, what's the difference??? Still taking space, whether you're in the water or laying on the beach. People put down 5,6,10 towels etc., and stay for the duration. I don't get it. I'm soon going back to my planet. This one's getting a little strange.

Have you been to Myrtle Beach? They don't go put a towel down and go get in the water. That start out at daybreak and take 10'x10' ez up tents (and sometimes a couple of them)and set them up and then leave. They may come back sometime later and spend a couple hours there and then leave again and the nlater on in the day they may come back. And when I say leave, I don't mean going to take a dip in the water. I mean they leave the beach. Go back to their campers. Go do other things. It's tent upon tent all the way down the beach, usually at least 2 deep. Depends on where the lifeguards tower is. They can't be forward of that imaginary line.

Brian, I could not agree more and the issue is magnified at higher tides. I've seen people have to walk under unoccupied ez-up tents because of a high tide.

As most of us who live there up to 6 months a year know, wind can be a big factor all along Myrtle a Beach. I've seen unoccupied shelters and tents launch themselves with no one under them. It can be very dangerous. In all fairness, I've also seen umbrellas fly off but they are better to grab and control.

... Eric