I sure hope so. Tomorrow I’ll probably circle around and check if any neighbors need help, it hardly works to clean my yard only to have something next door blow over and break a window, right?
Nothing else really to do but keep watching updates, and praying, especially for people closer to the coast. Charleston or perhaps even Columbia could be in for a tough time.
You are good to check on your neighbors.
The attitude I get in my part of Columbia is concerned but no hysterics or panic (yet).
I found a decent collection of unused sandbags in storage but alas no real sand source in the burbs. There is Lowe’s I guess. I need to make a count of how many I actually have on the truck.
My spouse is a tad on the very nervous side. At most I could protect the garage door area.
The lower yard is out of the question. Simply not enough.
This area didn’t flood during the last big one a few years ago when I almost had my last drink of water. None of the neighbors who have been here longer than us seem to be worried. We moved here about a year ago.
One of my higher ups lives a few hundred yards on past me down another street and nothing happened to her place the last time.
A guy who keeps a boat near me a little while ago that a big concrete place in Sumter had some huge amounts of sand available.
Even if it were true and 378 was ok to travel, that is a good hour ride at least. I get to go by myself and do all the labor.
Taking all that into account, I’d just assume buy as I needed from Lowe’s if I become an entry level sandbagger.