For two hundred years, the Gray Man has walked the beaches and marshes surrounding Pawleys Island, South Carolina, reportedly warning residents and visitors of impending storms. We dig into the legend just in time for peak hurricane season
Carolina researchers are studying these highest of high tides to predict how rising sea levels and increasingly frequent flooding will alter North Carolina’s coast.
A drone image of Wrightsville Beach.
King tides correlate with the earth’s position to the moon. Researchers are now using the naturally-occurring events to help visualize coastal areas under future, human-caused sea-level rise. And anyone can participate.
This week marks North Carolina’s first king tide event of 2021. That means now through Friday, Apr. 30, high-tides are at their highest, and low-tides are at their lowest compared to other times during the year.
Hannah Breisinger
Hannah Breisinger Wrightsville Beach at high tide, during the Monday, Apr. 26 king tide event.
On Monday, April 26, at 7:30 PM, I get in my car. I drive to Wrightsville Beach and at 7:42 PM peak high-tide I snap a picture.
Index-Journal Executive Editor Richard S. Whiting will serve as daily newspaper vice president of the South Carolina Press Association after a vote of the press associationâs membership.
Don Kausler Jr., regional editor of the Morning News in Florence and the prior daily newspaper vice president, was elected president and succeeds Suzanne Detar, publisher of The Daniel Island News. The election was Wednesday during a virtual Annual Business Meeting.
Other officers elected were: Charles Swenson, editor of the Coastal Observer in Pawleys Island, as weekly newspaper vice president; and Nathaniel Abraham Jr., publisher of Carolina Panorama in Columbia as treasurer.