South Carolina traffic cams

[Seperallis]

South Carolina began official evacuation orders today for coastal counties ahead of expected flooding from Hurricane Matthew. I got to go into work today and do nothing before being told to "go home, but keep your phone close by." Fun!

On that note, if you're particularly bored today, you can see the evacuation take place in real time along the state's major highways (mostly just Interstate 26, but 95's busy with people from Florida & Georgia, too). Check it out here on the state's live traffic camera feeds:

http://www.511sc.org/

Have fun being bored. o/

[Flo]

Neat thanks

[Flo]

Also, be safe o/

[Blacaria]

You can't outrun mother nature...either way CAH time o/

[Flo]

its interesting to see downtown Charleston completely deserted.

[Blacaria]

The power of Matthew...

[Seperallis]

Most of the heavy traffic took place the first day of evacuations, but they're still expecting several hundred thousand have yet to leave the coast. The lane reversals on I-26 (where all lanes are going the same direction) ends after tomorrow; Matthew's leaning further west, expected to hug the coast of Georgia and Charleston before heading out to sea, and SC has a lot of island communities down there where, once the surge hits, the roadways off those islands will be inundated, so tomorrow's really the last day to get gone; I expect all the last-minute procrastinators to be filling the highways.

Me? I'm on call at work in case we somehow get enough wind to warrant us going out with chainsaws to take care of fallen trees. In the meantime, we enjoyed the sunny hurricane weather with some fro-yo outdoors in the sun.

I expect, as long as the cameras don't get knocked over, that you'll be able to see the storm in real-time from those feeds, so that'll be fun.

[Ayzek]

The camera quality is underwhelming....

[Flo]

when is the storm expected to blow through charleston?

[Flo]

oh shiz. its right now. You can see it