If you can't wait to get back on the links, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, a local golf marketing group, has created a Web site showing the status of local golf courses after the storm.
The group will contact all member courses after the storm and post updates to that site. (http://www.golfholiday.com/content/courseconditions.cfm)
Many of the few remaining tourists in Myrtle Beach were packing up and heading out, though some decided to stick through it.
Several flights from the Myrtle Beach International Airport have been canceled in advance of the storm.
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Judy and Wayne Beach were out in Myrtle Beach enjoying the beautiful weather Thursday before the storm.
The Beaches are originally from Pittsfield, Mass., but they moved to Sarasota, Fla., and are working here at Briarcliffe RV Resort for the summer while they camp, too.
The Army Corps of Engineers had started to move equipment for beach
renourishment, a project to replace sand lost to erosion, off the beach
in North Myrtle Beach on Thursday, and will be moving the offshore
dredging equipment sometime today, city spokeswoman Nicole Aiello said.
Family Kingdom Amusement Park will be closed Friday as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches, the park announced today.
It will reopen Saturday at 6 p.m.
Hard Rock Park will close for the weekend as a precaution as Tropical Storm Hanna heads toward the Grand Strand, the park announced today.
The park will be securing electronics, storing furniture and ride
cars to protect them against wind and rain, the park said. The
preparations will take 36 hours.
The roller coasters, amphitheater and other buildings are built to withstand wind of up to 130 miles per hour, the park said.
It will take another 36 hours after the storm passes to perform safety checks and get everything running. The park's posted hours this September and October are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
More flights in and out of Myrtle Beach International Airport were on time during June and July than during those months last summer, according to data out today from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Still, just over 75 percent of flights took off on time and 65.2 percent of flights arrived on time.
That's better than June and July of 2007, when 48 and 57 percent of flights arrived on time, respectively, while 70 percent of flights departed on time, according to federal statistics.
Data chart after the jump.
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Officials at the Army Corps of Engineers won't make a decision about whether to stop beach renourishment activity until Thursday, a North Myrtle Beach spokeswoman said.
The city is in the middle of a multi-million-dollar renourishment project, which combats erosion and flooding by taking sand from deep in the ocean and putting it back onto the beach.
North Myrtle Beach is paying $1.9 million of the nearly $30 million total cost, spokeswoman Nicole Aiello said.
The Corps is managing the project, and a company from Michigan is doing the work.
In Case You Missed It: One of Hard Rock Park's biggest investors wrote off its $10 million investment in the park, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
The park's had to grapple with a rough economy, low consumer confidence and high fuel prices during its debut season.
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