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Juan Ramirez of
Hilton Head Island, left, looks over a generator
offered for sale Thursday by Avacu Fuentes of
Apex, N.C. Fuentes set up shop along U.S. 278 in
Bluffton.
Thomas J. Turney/Carolina
Morning News
Don
Henley concert postponed
Don Henley
won't be making landfall on Hilton Head Island
this weekend.
The singer's Saturday
concert was postponed because of Hurricane
Frances, organizers announced
Thursday.
Henley's management team told
High Tide Entertainment the decision to postpone
the concert was "in the best interest and safety
of all those concerned."
The concert will
be rescheduled but organizers had not announced
a new date. Tickets that have already been
purchased will be honored at the future
concert.
For more information, call High
Tide Entertainment at 671-5121.
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harried: Frances disrupts wedding
HILTON HEAD ISLAND: Honeymooners and
homeowners still not safe from hassle as storm
eyes coast.
By Stephanie Ingersoll
Carolina Morning News
Frances wasn't invited to Joe Mays' beach
wedding this weekend.
When the Quincy,
Ill., man and his bride to be found out the nasty
Category 4 hurricane might make an appearance
anyway, they even moved their wedding up a day in
hopes of beating her to the alter.
Now Mays
and his fianceι hope their wedding - and honeymoon
- don't turn into a disaster.
They're among
the many thousands of tourists and residents on
South Carolina's coast who were anxiously watching
and awaiting news of Hurricane Frances on
Thursday.
With winds of 145 mph, the storm
was as strong as Hurricane Charley, but twice as
big. Like the deadly August storm, it also seemed
likely Thursday to hit Florida but officials from
South Carolina warned it could still veer here or
send nasty remnants this way.
"It's not
over until it's over," said Jasper County
Emergency Management Director Mike Hodges. "We
don't want anybody to turn their head because we
just don't know what it's going to
do."
National Weather Service senior
forecaster Rich Thacker of Charleston said Frances
seemed to be on a steady track into Florida. If
that happens, the Carolina Lowcountry may even
escape heavy rain and winds, he
said.
"We're not out of the woods yet, but
we're still looking at probable landfall in
Florida," he said. "It's possible we could see a
few outer bands Sunday and Monday as it comes in.
The people in Florida are very
unfortunate."
The Lowcountry can expect
dangerous marine conditions including rip rides
and large waves, he said. They should also
continue to monitor news of Frances in case its
projected path changes quickly.
More than 1
million people in Florida were urged to evacuate
as Frances neared the coast. Hurricane force winds
could begin lashing the Sunshine State by
mid-morning today.
That could impact
traffic on Interstate 95 as Floridians flee north,
but the heaviest traffic was expected to be
directed west at Jacksonville in hopes of avoiding
traffic jams like those experienced during 1999's
Hurricane Floyd.
That storm was also
projected to hit Florida but instead skirted the
entire Georgia and South Carolina coast before
hitting North Carolina. It sparked the largest
evacuation in United States history and gridlock
hundreds of miles inland.
Mays and his
wedding party hope there will be no need to
evacuate Hilton Head this weekend.
His
wedding was moved up from Saturday to tonight to
avoid Frances. That means some of the 35 invited
guests won't make it into town in time. Instead,
they'll be invited to a "rehearsal" dinner
Saturday or Sunday night.
Reporter
Stephanie Ingersoll can be reached at 837-5255,
ext. 110, or
Stephanie.ingersoll@lowcountrynow.com
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