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[QUOTE="realorange, post: 1906616, member: 292"]
Mrs. Real and I ran from the storm.  Still in Columbia, SC where we got 40-50 mph winds, about half of what went down on Hilton Head.  Fortunately, we live off the Island.  A friend who stayed sent pictures of  our home with water in the front and back but not up to the house itself.   Minor structural damage.

Hilton Head is a disaster area from anything we've been told.  Matthew arrived outside HHI right at high tide.  For those of you who have been there, you have a good idea of what happened.  Water as high as the stop signs in some places.  We saw a video of a never ending line of emergency vehicles going over the bridge to the Island.  I doubt they will allow residents back for at least another 2-3 days.

I bothers me that all the coverage after Florida worried about Charleston and MB.  Both had flooding but not much more than some heavy rains in the past.   These areas will recover quickly while HHI will be a long time coming back.

Unfortunately, one of our boys had his home on St. Simons Island and his rental property at St. Augustine Beach destroyed or at least heavily damaged.  We don't know exactly because he and his family were in NYC on vacation.  Very sad.

We'll be able to go back home by Monday, maybe tomorrow.   It's up to the State and Cty. emergency personnel.   All I have to worry about personally is looking out for the Copperheads that got driven to high land by the storm.
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