CNN<\/em> reported that erosion from wave action and surge on Folly Beach just south of Charleston SC unearthed some ancient Civil War era cannonballs in a non-residential area of the island. \u00a0You can read the story here<\/a>. \u00a0The cannonballs were safely disposed of by the US Air Force Explosive Team.<\/p>\n Fort Pulaski on the Savannah River just inland from Tybee Island was also flooded by storm surge and was surrounded by water. \u00a0A description of the preliminary damage was published at\u00a0https:\/\/markerhunter.wordpress.com\/tag\/hurricane-matthew\/<\/a>\u00a0along with some discussion of damage at other military sites along the coast. \u00a0The Miami Herald also has a video of this at\u00a0https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane\/article107397242.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the impacts that Hurricane Matthew had on the Southeast coast were some impacts that the surge had on historical sites in the area. There are a number of forts in the area, many of them along the coast or just inland along rivers that were also affected by rising storm surges. Here are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8674,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Source:](\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/fort-pulaski-after-matthew-ap-300x200.jpg\")
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