Hurricane Hugo - Wrath to Restoration

I had just turned 1. This hurricane destroyed my great grandmother’s trailer in Myrtle beach. Cool to hear the old low country accents.

We thought we would be safe when we evaced 65 miles inland, nope Hugo still decimated the place, trees, utility poles, power lines down everywhere.

I remember the eighties quite well. Big hair, big glasses, and shoulder pads. Good times.

I was 4 years old when hurricane hugo hit South Carolina

Rob Fowler still works for WCBD Count On 2 News (formerly TV2 Action News). Amazing!

This is exactly why people don't pay attention to the weather forecasters. They said HUGO would be the end of the earth with a 20' tidal surge and Lord have Mercy on your soul if you don't evacuate when the winds blow you away but WAIT! When HUGO made landfall there was NO surge and it wasn't even a hurricane! It was a NOTHING BURGER tropical storm but the drama queens offered no apologies for scaring half of South Carolina with their lies!

Look at that awful thumbnail. Oy vey, it’s a hurricane!

I had just turned 4 that September!

Most women's 1980s hairstyles survived the storm!

My mom was on vacation and survived this alone. We aren't from an area that has this weather so I was scared for her. Thanks for the upload.

My mom lived in Puerto Rico during Hugo. Luckily, her town wasn’t badly affected from what she told me

I turned ten on the 19th of that month

Hard not to forget this one. I was 13 and about 2am I'm being woke up by our trailer picking up and slamming down. We quickly decided to leave,so we drive not too far to a waffle house because my sister was working there. The windows in waffle house were breathing, I watched the Hardee's sign slam to the ground and then fly to the waffle house under my sisters car, then at Hardee's the playground just rolled into a field, back at our place it was fine, but several trailers were gone, next to trailer park were radio towers that all 3 were gone down the road. Most of the area was without power for 2 weeks but we had it the same day. It was interesting night for sure

I can remember seeing the broken trees from this for years.

I was 4 going on 5 years old when Hugo hit Charleston in 89, surprised to say ima Hugo survival!

I slept through Hurricane Hugo as a baby!

Love my fellow Charlestonians accents. Yess!!! ❤❤❤

I believe Hugo was more dangerous than Katrina

God in control of the weather he made it billions years ago

I rode this out on Kiawah Island SC, we snorted coke, drank Margheritas and grilled kebabs , it was wild!

I was born in '93 but my mom was/is a amateur photographer and lab tech at Roper hospital in downtown charleston and has insane pictures from hugo (mostly in west ashley and down town charleston)... Boats in trees.. The national gaurd filling jugs of water for ppl without in parking lots .. Boarded up building with "looters will be shot" written on them.. And many more... Lots of them are gut wrenching

Poppp how many years has it been since hurricane Hugo

I'm here on October 7th 2024 after the massive damage that hurricane Helene has brought in Western North Carolina with all the rainfall❤🙏. I went down to see my aunt and Rock Hill South Carolina before hurricane Hugo and August 1989 and then me and my dad went through the next year in August 1991 and we went down by the Blue ridge parkway and we saw the damage where the slopes of the mountains had trees removed because of Hugo. I can't imagine what area is like Yancey county Burnsville Asheville look like right now😢.

Those of us born in Charleston in those immediate years after Hugo heard about it all throughout our childhood. Capsized sailboats that had washed up in our barrier island rivers stayed submerged above the water well into the 2000s. Charleston isn’t how it use to be anymore and greedy corporations have built heavily onto our wetlands. People think Matthew was bad with flooding, and Joaquin when I was a kid, but I’m telling y’all.. The next bit of devastation our city sees is going to be way worse than Hugo. God willing the loss of life will hopefully pale in comparison to the flooding Charleston will see during the next catastrophic hurricane.

You can see the Native American heritage in some of the interviews