Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where a tropical storm and gusty winds have left the beaches desolate.

Myrtle Beach

Tropical storm Chantal has impacted Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with strong winds and heavy rain, resulting in deserted beaches and hazardous surf conditions. Wind gusts, which previously reached up to 60 miles per hour, have started to subside, but remain strong enough to cause minor damage such as downed telephone wires and scattered debris.

Power outages have been reported in some areas, though crews are working to restore service. Authorities have closed beaches for swimming due to a persistent rip current threat, and most residents and tourists are heeding warnings to stay indoors. As the storm moves northeast, conditions are expected to improve, but officials continue to urge caution around the water.

Chantal brings heavy rain and rough surf

closer look at what's going on. We're joined now by storm chaser Aaron Rigsby. He's live in Myrtle Beach this morning. Aaron, we talked to you last hour. What's changed since then? Yeah, good morning, guys. So the thing that's changed the most is that it's the winds are still a little bit rowdy, but they have started to calm down a little bit over the last hour, which is good news. They're still gusting upwards of 30 to 35 miles an hour versus earlier, where they were gusting as high as 60 miles an hour. But as you can probably tell behind me, it's not too often that you see Myrtle Beach look like this. I mean, it is a complete ghost town, which is good news. It means a lot of the folks were heeding those warnings taking today to just kind of relax, let the storm pass through and eventually get back to their summertime vacation. I did talk to a few folks yesterday, and they were at least thankful that the storm waited until after the fourth of July so they can enjoy their fireworks in the prime time of their vacation before Chantel moved on shore. I guess in that sense, Florida kind of had the worst end of the deal, ruining the fourth. But yeah, probably a lot of Uno games going on. I would imagine a lot of great competitions there. Have you seen much in the way? It seems like there's been a lot of trash cans blowing around. Certainly not much in the way of power outages or damage at all. Right, Aaron? Yeah, it's been relatively minor. A lot of those loose objects that weren't tied down had gotten blown into the streets. Lots of trash cans. I did see a couple of appear to be telephone wires hanging down from some of those gusty winds, and I did actually personally see a few power flashes from transformers exploding from some of those wind gusts. So there are going to be at least a few folks here in the dark this morning. But the good news is that I did see the power crews actively working during the storm. So those areas that did lose power, they were jumping right on that on standby, ready to get that power restored at a moment's notice. Now, one thing to mention today is that there's still a very dangerous rip current threat. The beaches for swimming have been closed for the last 48 hours. Yesterday, I did see some folks still risking it going out there, but that's not the case today, and hopefully that train continues until this storm system can push off to the northeast and these beaches can settle down a little bit. And a lot of those folks can get off the beach and enjoy that water. Yeah, hopefully a lot of people taking the advice from officials there. Now, Aaron, we can see the ocean behind you. Obviously, we can see you're on the beach. Nobody's there. But you mentioned earlier, there's still a decent number of tourists that at least are in town for the holiday weekend. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, even yesterday afternoon before the storm really started to ramp up, there was a lot of folks out still enjoying their evening. A lot of folks were hitting the night out on the town, I think, kind of trying to get those last bit a few hours of relatively nice weather before the storm impacted the area. And it's been a noticeable. It's been a noticeable difference today on the amount of folks that were out driving around yesterday versus today. Many of these hotels are still cool with their parking lot of the vehicle still there. So a lot of the folks are still hunkering down now as the storm moves off the northeast, things might actually get a little bit sunny a little bit later today. So I'm expecting a lot of those folks to eventually make their way out and see if they can salvage some of their day left. But it is really important to talk about how important it is not to get in the water. Those recurrent are what we pretty much refer to a silent killers. You cannot see them. And once they pull you out, there is no getting back in. So definitely he's those warnings. If the folks watching to head out this evening at the weather slowly starts to improve as the day progresses. Yes, some important advice there. Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby. Thanks for joining us.

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