[Wampus SC]

"They've now settled that landfall was near Georgetown, and it moved parallel to the coast, just inland. It went thru Pawley's Island, Garden City, Myrtle Beach, etc. I watched the eye go over the ocean front at Myrtle Beach on TV, just after some 75mph winds.

This has been amended. NWS now says that along that stretch it was just a partial landfall, with part of the eye over land and part over water. They now say that the full "official" landfall was just a tad past the SC/NC border.

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Erica Austin removes her pet bird from her home in Punta Gorda, Fla., where her father has painted a stern warning against looters, after Hurricane Charley passed Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)