valhalla76
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Well for the past few days the media here has been hyping the hurricane.
None of the hype even remotely came true. Friday was very calm. Just minor rain. The news was claiming that hundreds of surfers were out braving the hurricane Friday.
By Friday night they local news stations were claiming "major beach erosion," and "folly beach devastated." "Folly beach won't look the same next time you see it." One channel was even interviewing people to get their reaction at the alleged devastation of Folly Beach (It was pitch black outside during these interviews).
These claims by the media were completely false. The beach looked the same as it did a week and a half when I was there. There were spots where the sand level was down maybe 6", but we aren't talking anything major.
The beach pretty much looked the same, except for a higher than normal amount of larger shell pieces and intact shells. When low tide hit it exposed a bunch of nice big shells and starfish.
Well I hit the Folly at 9 AM. It was supposed to be 90% chance of thunder-storming with winds up to 25mph at that time.
Instead it was beautiful, calm, sunny. People were already mobbed the beach at 9 to go swimming. There was also a half dozen other people with metal detectors around the pier.
I found 27 clad in 3.5 hours. No jewelry. None of the other people I talked to admitted to finding anything good.
I did find a noticeable lack of trash (except for the first target I dug which was an entire Bud Light can and a dangerous razor sharp chefs knife that looked like it had just been dropped). There was a huge amount of small badly rusted chips of metal out there. Fortunately most were laying on top of the sand, so you didn't have to dig to find out what it was.
I went to the southern tip of Sullivans Island in hopes of finding civil war era coins and bullets. Only found 3 clad in about 2 hours. Very uneventful there.
I think the sea shell hunters had a much bigger day than the metal detectors.
None of the hype even remotely came true. Friday was very calm. Just minor rain. The news was claiming that hundreds of surfers were out braving the hurricane Friday.
By Friday night they local news stations were claiming "major beach erosion," and "folly beach devastated." "Folly beach won't look the same next time you see it." One channel was even interviewing people to get their reaction at the alleged devastation of Folly Beach (It was pitch black outside during these interviews).
These claims by the media were completely false. The beach looked the same as it did a week and a half when I was there. There were spots where the sand level was down maybe 6", but we aren't talking anything major.
The beach pretty much looked the same, except for a higher than normal amount of larger shell pieces and intact shells. When low tide hit it exposed a bunch of nice big shells and starfish.
Well I hit the Folly at 9 AM. It was supposed to be 90% chance of thunder-storming with winds up to 25mph at that time.
Instead it was beautiful, calm, sunny. People were already mobbed the beach at 9 to go swimming. There was also a half dozen other people with metal detectors around the pier.
I found 27 clad in 3.5 hours. No jewelry. None of the other people I talked to admitted to finding anything good.
I did find a noticeable lack of trash (except for the first target I dug which was an entire Bud Light can and a dangerous razor sharp chefs knife that looked like it had just been dropped). There was a huge amount of small badly rusted chips of metal out there. Fortunately most were laying on top of the sand, so you didn't have to dig to find out what it was.
I went to the southern tip of Sullivans Island in hopes of finding civil war era coins and bullets. Only found 3 clad in about 2 hours. Very uneventful there.
I think the sea shell hunters had a much bigger day than the metal detectors.
