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His ‘slice of heaven’ is disappearing: How sea level rise threatens the Grand Strand
BY MARY RAMSEY
July 26, 2018 10:12 AM
Updated 16 minutes ago
Like many longtime residents of the Grand Strand, Ed Black often divides his life in Garden City into two time periods: before Hurricane Hugo and after.
The 1989 storm caused massive damage, destroying more than 60 homes in Garden City alone and killing 27 people in South Carolina. At the time, it was the most damaging hurricane on record. Black’s street, just off the ocean and backing up to an inlet, has been prone to flooding ever since. Black says the issue has to do with the drainage system on his street.
But now, a new threat might be making it even more vulnerable. Sea rise has the potential to jeopardize the place Black has called home for almost 60 years.
“We really don’t want to leave, it’s a family home,” he said. “I don’t know what the solution is.”
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SIGN UPPawleys Island resident Robert Levine faces a similar predicament. Levine, who’s lived on the island since the ‘90s and visited for years before that, is one of the few full-time residents of Pawleys. He’s lucky, he says, because his house is on the creek side, separated from the high tides that sometimes surround his oceanfront neighbors by a narrow two-lane street.
Still, he knows that the island he calls his “little slice of heaven” is in many ways a risky investment.
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