Myrtle Beach, SC residents knock Debby with viral memes of tropical storm. See top posts
Local residents haven taken to social media to express their displeasure with Tropical Storm Debby by creating memes based on the storm’s name.
Names for storms come from a rotating list and are chosen by the World Meteorological Organization.
After being cooped up inside for the majority of the week, some folks have taken to Photoshop to commemorate Debby’s appearance in the Myrtle Beach area which began on Aug. 5, 2024, and made landfall on Thursday.
Tropical Storm Debby is the first named storm this hurricane season for Myrtle Beach.
While some downtown businesses experienced little to no damage, other communities like North Myrtle Beach, Loris and Conway received some flooding.
Debby was still a dangerous storm that caused significant damage in some other states and areas of South Carolina.
Many have created photos inspired by the famous sweet treats sold by the Little Debbie Cakes brand. Unlike the cake brand, the tropical storm spells Debby with a “Y” instead of the cake brand’s “ie” ending moniker.
For local Myrtle Beach TV Meteorologist Ed Piotrowski, he took the opportunity to compare one of the incoming forecasts to one of the most famous Little Debbie Cakes: Swiss Rolls.
Others have teased about what kinds of wildlife could be lurking underneath the cloudy flood waters. Piotrowski’s forecast was a foreshadowing for the amount of flooding that impacted Horry County after Tropical Storm Debby made landfall.
Some have chosen to show just how all over the place the storm was with a large looking storm map. The storm came ashore and then went back out into the Atlantic Ocean before making landfall again Thursday.
Others have jokingly re-branded Little Debbie into “Big Deborah” as a nod to the expected destructive nature of the storm, which did hit some areas of South Carolina harder than others.
Ahead of Debby’s landfall in the United States, The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore made his way to Charleston to report. Cantore is famous for heading into areas that are about to experience severe weather events.
Throughout his career he’s covered a number of dangerous hurricanes in the U.S., including Katrina, Sandy, Matthew, Irma and Dorian.
His arrival in South Carolina also sparked memes.
