Well…what else can you say! It was a wild weekend for the Lowcountry and after it was all over and done, we could look back a say that we nailed the forecast. When you start talking snow, especially significant snow for the coast people either pay attention or say you are crazy and believe me, if you saw my email inbox you would get a good example of both! But that being said, most folks took the forecast in stride and took the advice and got off the roads once the snow began to fall. The National Weather Service office here in Charleston put together a great map that shows who got what from ol’ man winter:

Image Courtesy: NWS/Charleston WFO

From what I can tell, everyone in the Live 5 viewing area did get some snow on the ground. I wound up with a tad over 4″ at my home in West Ashley. Thanks to everyone who sent us pictures, videos and storm reports. They really helped us keep up with where the best totals were shaping up. We could not have done it with out all our great viewers! The response we had on our Facebook and Twitter feeds was fantastic. As of this morning we have had more than 1600 pics submitted to our my5@live5news.com photo and video feed. If you still have some cool pics, send them to us. Click the link to the left to log on and send them to us.

Again…from Bill, Brad and I…Thanks for choosing Live 5 to keep you informed as the storm rolled in!

Have a great Monday and get ready for a few showers!

Chad Watson
Live 5 Meteorologist

(Hurricane Floyd as it approached the coast of Florida. Image Courtesy: NOAA/NCDC)

It was nine years ago today that many people thought that a repeat of Hurricane Hugo was on the way as monster Hurricane Floyd bore down on the southeast coast of the United States. Floyd created the second largest evacuation of people in U.S. history along the east coast from Florida to the Carolinas. More than 2.5 million people were told to leave, which led to the infamous “Floyd Fiasco” here in the Lowcountry as people jammed the interstates and were left stranded as traffic stalled as the storm approached.  This would lead to a redesign of how evacuations would be handled here, reversing the interstate to Columbia to get the most people out of harms way.

Floyd, at its peak was a Category 4 hurricane as it passed through the Bahamas and then turned north toward the U.S. Mainland. Luckily Floyd weakend to a category 2 when it made landfall in North Carolina. But the damage did not stop there.

(Floyd Radar Loop, Image Courtesy: NCDC/NOAA)

Once inland, Floyd created epic floods across the New England states as it moved northward up the Appalachian Range. Floyd killed 57 people and led to more than $4.5 billion dollars in damage