Im in myrtle beach.. hurricane help.

[lawrosa]

Hi all. Im from nj but living in myrtlr beach in my camper. Im doing this till i get a stick built home..

The hurricane is supposed to hit here. Im not familiar with hurricanes and best I have seen were 50mph winds during hurricane sandy.

So what I need to ask is I know I should pack up but how far inland do I go?


I was thinking heading west to NC and find refuge at Uwharrie
National Forest.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Uwharrie+National+Forest/@35.1166316,-79.9154956,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!...

Does this seem far enough inland?

Maybe kings mountain state park?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kings+Mountain+State+Park/@35.1172037,-81.3410596,12z/data=!4m5!3m...

[bobsallyh]

Like mlburst said, don't WAIT for mandatory evacuation to be in place. Don't remember what year, but in the 90's, a beautiful Wednesday morning I walked up to the store for the morning paper. For several days each morning I would converse with a guy from Charlotte. I knew what day he was due to leave but this morning he was packing it in. I asked him what he was doing and he said that "they had issued a voluntary evacuation and he was outta of there. He asked if we had ever been run out, which all the years we had been coming we never had. He described the situation, I went down to the rig, told my wife we were packing it in. A friend that we had met years before from the ST. Louis area came down and inquired what I was doing. Told him and he quickly named me "throw and go Bob". The next season we get down there, and he comes grinning. He said if you ever leave under a voluntary evacuation, make sure I'm on your bumper"! What a story. When it became mandatory he left. It was in the morning, 12 hours later he was all the way to Camping World on RT 501. Spent the night there, than the next morning headed on East. Finally got a bite to eat in Knoxville, TN. He said "NEVER AGAIN"! We simply drove out like any other time and headed Northwest.

[theoldwizard1]

bgum wrote:
Go straight inland about 100 miles find a large elevated parking lot with trees and light standards you can get away from. When the wind blows head your rig into the wind and set the stabilizer down. Kick back and ride it out. Don't leave home until you are sure it is coming your way.

Pretty good advice ! I would shoot for closer to 200 miles inland.

[Dave_H_M]

Our daughter manages and lives on Huntington beach state park.

I would hate to see that place get ripped.

Hugo put 4 feet of water in the house she lives in.

I hope they get the hey out of there soon enough.

[mlburst]

We live in Myrtle beach too.

Depending on the forecast, we usually leave three days before the expected landfall.

We usually reserve a site at Barnyard RV Park a few days before we leave - if you don't have to go, you just loose your deposit.

[Padlin]

5 or 6 hours is about 300 miles with a camper.

When it gets a couple days away I;d make reservations somewhere, just find out what the cancellation policy is. Could be a lot of others doing the same thing.

[lawrosa]

I have a job here.. I have no home but the RV.. I will get ready to leave and will just drive west or south west.. If it curves up like the locals hear say it always does ill move south west for a few days. Probably about 5-6 hours or 400-500 miles...

[midnightsadie]

so the storms coming, get moving NOW, or you,ll be in bumper to bumper going no where. I think its just plain stupid to wait.

[Gdetrailer]

bgum wrote:
Go straight inland about 100 miles find a large elevated parking lot with trees and light standards you can get away from. When the wind blows head your rig into the wind and set the stabilizer down. Kick back and ride it out. Don't leave home until you are sure it is coming your way.

Trying to "ride it out" anywhere in a lightweight highly mobile structure like a RV in HIGH WINDS IS a recipe for disaster. RVs are worse than mobile homes and plenty of people have been killed when their mobile homes where ripped from their tie downs and rolled or flipped.

Poor advice.

A "elevated" parking lot sounds like it would be good for flooding issues, the danger there is you are now much higher elevation and the winds tend to be HIGHER the higher in elevation you go. That is why the general advise when encountering a Tornado is to get out of your vehicle and GET AS LOW AS YOU CAN, in a ditch or such. With hurricanes, you do get a lot of rain which presents the flooding problem, so ditches no longer are a good idea.

If I was the OP and in the same situation right now, I would be ABANDONING THE RV if you can't get SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES AWAY FROM THE LINE OF THE STORM IN TIME, heading either IN LAND to a sturdy FIXED structure OR finding the NEAREST STORM SHELTER or sturdy building like a Hotel would be the better advice.

MB and surrounding areas are rather low in elevation for quite a few miles inland. Lots of wind and rain tends to cause flash flooding there in a hurry. Have to go a long way inland to get some appreciable elevation that may not flood easily but once again, if you do not get out of the direct path, the winds alone may not make for a safe shelter in a RV.

Head the orders to evacuate or if shelter in place if given, find nearest shelter, use your head and follow directions and routes.

You can replace your RV and stuff, you cannot replace your life.

[PenMan]

After getting hit by hurricane Hugo in 1989 while living just outside of Charlotte, I would head for New Mexico or Arizona. We were over 200 miles from the coast and still had our roof blow off the house (no camper at the time). We also had an oak tree fall on our boat which was on a trailer and totaled it. We had a waterfront home on Lake Wylie and had the huge marina in the same cove. The whole marina blew across the lake and boats were piled on top of one another. I don't like hurricanes.

[bgum]

Go straight inland about 100 miles find a large elevated parking lot with trees and light standards you can get away from. When the wind blows head your rig into the wind and set the stabilizer down. Kick back and ride it out. Don't leave home until you are sure it is coming your way.

[riven1950]

I live on the beach about 30 miles North of you. We have been through this many times.

We are waiting till the storm is about 3 days out to decide. We are on the beach with the TT in hte driveway. If it does comes this way we will have a mandatory evacuation so no choice but leave. The direction depends on the storm track Monday or so...if it is coming south of us we will head North etc. You will get an idea from the track as to where it will go once it hits land.

They are really accurate now about 3 days out. Right now it is too early to tell where it will hit.

Last hurricane we had was 2 years ago and we went to just outside of Charlotte. All was good, but that was a cat 1. If it is stronger then where to go is more of a problem. Like someone said when Hugo hit we had beach neighbors that had more damage in Cahrlotte from falling trees than at their beach house.

So bottom line we are waiting till Monday to decide which way to run.

[lawrosa]

Sure I would like to find an open field... but where?

[spoon059]

Go far enough away that you are out of the storm path. That might be 40 miles of 200 miles, depends on the storm itself. You clearly have internet, research where the storm is forecast and move outside of that zone. Keep evaluating as the storm approaches and move if necessary. I would avoid trees if it were me...

[lawrosa]

I can maybe head more south west to oconee national forrest?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oconee+National+Forest/@33.623154,-83.4324076,9.75z/data=!4m20!1m1...

[ncscz]

There is no way to know. For most of the storms the answer is yes, BUT there is still chances of significant rain & wind in that area. It will depend on where along the coast the storm lands and the strength at that time.

1990's Hugo came ashore at Charleston area and when it went thru Charlotte area it was still 55 mph sustained and 90+ gusts. The major storms since then have had less wind but LOTS more rain so there can be huge flooding issues even 100+ miles inland.

Uwharrie is a good place to get to NOW and then you have more options available when the storms get close enough to tell where/when landfall occurs. If you wait until that is known then you will have significant traffic issues. Sure you can wait & see but, if you do HAVE to leave, you will be doing it with a lot of other travelers.