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See how Hurricane Ian damaged the Pawleys Island Pier as the storm made landfall in SC

The end of the Pawleys Island pier has collapsed and is floating south. Sept. 30, 2022.
The end of the Pawleys Island pier has collapsed and is floating south. Sept. 30, 2022. Pawleys Island Police Department
Pawleys Island, S.C.

Hurricane Ian ripped off a major chunk of the Pawleys Island Pier as the catastrophic storm made landfall in nearby Georgetown.

“The end of the Pawleys Island pier has collapsed & is floating south,” the Pawleys Island Police Department tweeted Friday afternoon.

The pier was one of four to suffer a partial collapse as of 4 p.m. Friday. The other three piers were the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach, the Apache Pier in Arcadian Shores and the Cherry Grove Pier in North Myrtle Beach.

Twitter user Jerry Lieberman posted this video of debris from the pier.

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The Sun News
Chase Karacostas writes about tourism in Myrtle Beach and across South Carolina for McClatchy. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with degrees in Journalism and Political Communication. He began working for McClatchy in 2020 after growing up in Texas, where he has bylines in three of the state’s largest print media outlets as well as the Texas Tribune covering state politics, the environment, housing and the LGBTQ+ community.
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