It's headed your way, Georgetown. More than 8,000 homes told to evacuate before flood [View all]

Georgetown County officials are advising more than 8,000 households to evacuate their homes as floodwaters creep downstream and threaten to inundate neighborhoods that rarely see flooding.

The county sent pre-recorded phone messages to residents in areas that are expected to experience floods in the coming days, county spokeswoman Jackie Broach-Akers said Sunday.

It’s been more than a week since Hurricane Florence made landfall as a Category 1 storm on Sept. 14. But it’s taking this long for floodwaters to make their way from North Carolina into Horry County and finally to Georgetown County, a mostly rural area of roughly 61,000 residents.

Some people spent the weekend moving their belongings into storage units or upper levels of homes — preparations that have become almost routine for Horry residents who live along the Waccamaw and Little Pee Dee rivers.

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