AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from the beach in Georgia on Aug. 31, where the time after Idalia and before Labor Day weekend came with much calmer weather.
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00:00 meteorologist Tony Laubach. He's on the prowl and he joins us now from Tybee Beach just
00:03 outside of Savannah, Georgia where people are enjoying much nicer weather today on the
00:08 beach ahead of Labor Day weekend. Tony?
00:10 Yeah, and I am not going to disappoint. I want to show you the view we have here. Folks,
00:17 I know it has been a rough few days for people, but there is some peace to be had in some
00:22 areas and here at Tybee Beach that is one of these places. Not terribly crowded today.
00:26 We are kind of between Edalia and Labor Day. We expect the crowds to pick up here as we
00:32 go through the day. There are a few people out and about today enjoying it. Mostly locals.
00:36 A couple of vacationers that were still out from here just kind of taking shelter yesterday.
00:41 People out doing a lot of metal detecting. I actually talked to one person. He didn't
00:45 want to go on camera, but he talked to me and mentioned that this is something they
00:48 do after tropical systems because a lot of times you get the water that stirs things
00:51 up. So a lot of metal detector folks on the beach today. We talked to some of the local
00:55 residents who enjoy the kind of weather we are dealing with today, but not so much what
00:59 they were having to deal with yesterday. We actually did have a tornado warning. Our sirens
01:05 were going off for about maybe like five minutes. My school always scares me. We just decided
01:10 we wanted to come see if we could find any cool seashells and just enjoy the weather.
01:15 And the weather was certainly something to be enjoyed today. Very hot and steamy. The
01:23 AccuRail of the real feels definitely feeling more summery than we were dealing with yesterday.
01:27 And of course the breezes have come down. Obviously though we want to caution folks
01:31 on the rip currents just because Adelia is not here to really cause a ruckus. Even offshore
01:36 she's going to cause some of the rip currents there. So certainly be cautious if you're
01:39 in the waters this weekend. But again, expecting the crowds to pick up here at the beaches
01:43 as we go over the next, let's say 24 to 48 hours for a long weekend ahead, which ought
01:49 to be much more suitable for beach going weather than what we saw around here yesterday. We'll
01:54 talk a little bit later about some of the efforts going on to clean up. Not much going
01:57 on here in Savannah as fortunately they spared mainly direct hits out of this, but still
02:01 a few people without power in the area. But for the most part, things back to normal here.
02:06 And as we start to see the beaches fill up, hopefully we'll have a much more normal weekend
02:10 for folks around these parts. All right, Tony, thank you for that report. And last night
02:14 it was interesting to look at the river gauges here along coastal points because we didn't
02:18 have any issues in Savannah or Hilton Head area. We did have, just with the juxtaposition
02:22 of high tide and that onshore wind, we had our fifth highest crest, fifth highest storm
02:28 surge, in other words, on record into Charleston, South Carolina. That was a big deal there.
02:33 And Emmy was reporting on that. We still have some water that's trapped into the Pamlico
02:36 Sound. So at Cedar Island, for example, we're still dealing with some issues here.