PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — There was plenty of sunshine throughout the Grand Strand after post-tropical storm Idalia moved offshore.
While much of the Grand Strand was problem-free after the storm, others didn’t weather the storm so well.
Pawleys Island was one of the areas hardest hit.
The small beach town is about 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach.
Splintered trees, possibly caused by a brief tornado, left local residents shaken.
"We are the only house in the area that got a giant three knocked on us," said Shannon Wyrick.
Wyrick was inside her mother's house, with her friend, Caitlyn Miller who is from Greensboro.
She said she had never experienced a storm like this before.
"This is my first hurricane. I’m from Greensboro, so I’m like all right you guys say it’s good and there’s no evacuation happening, we’re good and then this happened," said Miller.
Both say the winds that brought down these trees were there and gone within seconds.
"We left that room and I peaked in the room and saw oh my God, the whole entire tree is in the room we were just down. I was telling her, I don’t know if you wanna look at it right now because she was all shook up," said Wyrick.
No matter how weak a storm is in the future Wyrick says they plan to evacuate, just in case.
"This one I was like 'you know will be fine there’s nothing to worry about' and was not worried, but it was just so fast. So yeah, I plan to play it on the safe side so next time we will not want to stay here." said Wyrick.
The National Weather Service surveyed the damage on Thursday and are expected to release more on their findings by Friday morning.