Over the last 36 hours, we’ve been inundated with calls from concerned friends, family, clients and well-wishers.  We’ve put together a single source for fire-related news, pictures, video, maps and links on our website, and we will be updating it regularly. (We must be doing something right; Chris Price got a shout-out last night on the WPDE newscast at 11pm.)

I don’t know who said this first, but the farther away from the Truth you are, the less reliable is the “news” you hear.

We’re getting calls today from owners of Myrtle Beach real estate from the west coast, even Canada. They way they heard it, all of Myrtle Beach is now scorched earth, and that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Yes, there are areas that are devastated, and more than 50 homes (and lives) have been irrevocably changed forever.

Yes, it is a dangerous situation, still not under complete control.

But we will get through this. We always do.

Right now, I want to thank our men and women in uniform who have been working nonstop for the last 24 hours, and for who knows how long into the days ahead…

Although you will say that you are “just doing your job,” most of us don’t appreciate the job you do often enough – or vocally enough.

Thank you!

We’ll be updating the news on this situation on our website CarolinaWaterfront.net/news/fire.

If you live or work in Carolina Forest, you’re in for a treat.

No longer do you have to settle for the mass-produced, mass-market “pizza” served up by the big chains.  Now you have a better, authentic choice.

Simon’s Pizzeria is now open in the Food Lion shopping center at the corner of River Oaks Drive and Carolina Forest Boulevard.  The food is fabulous, inexpensive, and the pizza is like nothing you’ve ever tasted before.

If this sounds like a blatant endorsement, it is.  The owners, Simon and Melissa Papadopoulos, are clients of Price & Company Realty, but they aren’t going to need our help to be wildly successful. Judging from this article, the success of their two-week-old restaurant is already assured.

The new owners of the former Hard Rock Park announced this week that the park will reopen Memorial Day weekend as ‘Freestyle Music Park.’  The park will remain musically-themed but expand beyond rock n’ roll to encompass country, reggae, beach music, pop, R&B, Christian and yes baby, even disco.

The naming of the park gives the company a springboard to launch other parks under the Freestyle brand.  Steve Baker, president of FPI MBE, said, “We own the name, leaving us unencumbered by one specific brand. This will allow us… to explore other opportunities and collaborate with national and international brands that will strengthen and extend the ‘Freestyle’ brand in Myrtle Beach and throughout the rest of the world.”

Rides, restaurants are being re-themed and casting is underway.  The new website is FreestyleMusicPark.com.