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Hi, everybody.

This is Randal Wallace, your host for Grand Strand Politics.

This is a little brief housekeeping show to kind of let you know that season five could be as much as 10 months away.

The episodes that you've got up right now for Grand Strand Politics are going to stay up.

So if you want to go back and look at any of the elections that we have covered so far or the specials we did, on Mayor Bob Hirsch or John Bond Sr. They're here, and they're going to remain up, but we just want to let you know that it's going to be a longer break between this season because we've got a major announcement we're going to be announcing later on about our main show, Randal Wallace Presents.

Don't want to do that here, but we're going to concentrate on that podcast over the next few months to get the production done with it.

There's not really an election going on in Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand until later in the year next year.

We may be back sooner, but just want to let you know that this is going to be the show.

We're talking sports here in South Carolina from the coast to the upstate.

We've got Jill down on the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach.

Kevin in the port city of Charleston.

Carmine in the upstate.

If you're new to the show, if you don't know where Horry County is, it is the far easternmost, northeasternmost as well, county in the state of South Carolina.

It is home of Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, the Grand Strand there.

And the county seat is actually Conway County.

several miles inland, but the population of Horry County is 443,425 as of this year.

It was the independent Republic of Horry.

And It was wild because it was considered wilderness, really, but now it's home to some of the most prime real estate in the United States.

And, of course, the main economic driver is the Grand Strand itself, the beach, all the wonderful things that are there, all the interesting things that are there, all the tacky things that are there in Myrtle Beach.

Yeah.

As you guys know, we're here to help you get your Saturday morning going off on the right foot.

I am, of course, Reese Boyd, local attorney here in The Grand Strand with the Boyd Law Group.

Happy to be with you on this Saturday morning.

I'm your host for The Big Show.

But speaking of the future, what are your thoughts on Tuesday? Got a big election coming

up.

I've been saying this on Grand Strand Live for, you know, a while now that I feel pretty confident.

about the midterms.

They're playing for playoff positions.

And some teams, especially in the low country and PD Grand Strand, are playing for whether or not they're in the field starting next week.

Good morning, Smitty.

It's great to be here for Quarter Friday.

Silver Bluff is at Saluda.

We'll see where Saluda's head is at coming off the big wind over Strom Thurmond.

And coming up in the PD in Grand Strand tonight, Wilson is at South Florence.

What a run Scott Braswell Jr. and South Florence are on.

wrightsville beach we've seen minor flooding man i need to just wrap this show up i can't speak anymore um and i think that's our last one so we've been uh we've been showing these to you over on the carolina weather net as part of our special coverage so if you want to keep a close eye on those you can stream the carolina weather net over there on the youtube channel anytime to get uh these uh special coverage and also real-time alerts so when the national weather service issues beach hazard statements coastal flood statements flash flood warnings flood warnings you know the the full gamut of flood suites uh you will hear the uh the system read those out to you so that you can be notified of those things in real time any point that they happen let's check in with scotty powell he was uh at one of those places today uh where king tides were a problem let's take a listen scotty

everyone i'm meteorologist scotty powell here in garden city and we are going to be talking about the king tides uh we've been talking about all week how king tides are really starting to peak uh this week especially over the last few days and what is a king tide well really it's the highest high tide cycle of the year and this happens occasionally around four maybe six times a year on the grand strand uh but really this is one of the higher highest tide cycles that we've seen so far this year across the Grand Strand and it happens when the sun and the moon kind of line up with earth the gravitational pull and especially if the moon is closer to the earth it kind of just really high heightens that high tide and then the northeast winds that we've been seeing all month long is really just even add on to that so that's why we are seeing some of the highest tide cycles here so you can see behind me in Garden City people are out walking in it I don't know why you would do that But really a lot of people were out driving in it.

In fact, I've been here for about, I don't know, about 30, 45 minutes.

and there's been vehicles that has been driving through this flood water and why they're doing that, I have no idea because it's gonna cause damage to their cars with the salt water, but also it creates damage into these local businesses.

And it's got salt water all over its vehicle, creating damage to the car.

So anyways, we'll wrap this up saying, please don't come down and drive through the floodwaters.

If you want to come see the King Tut flooding, know just don't drive through the floodwaters be safe out there because it creates damage and we don't need that so that's what the king tide's all about it's a big story down here i don't know why a lot of the news companies or organizations don't cover it because it affects us community folks who live here in the community it affects their businesses it costs them money and yet they're really news company and the and the grand strand comes covers it so I guess it's old news to them.

I don't know.

I've been whooped.

Was that at his home stadium on the Grand Strand there? Yes, that's it.

It was at Coastal Carolina.

Bluefield.