i lived on the military base close to charleston..we stuck it out in the house. i will never forget that night, and the many long weeks after.I SURVIVED A D-I-R-E-C-T HIT FROM HUGO!!!....only lost some shingles from the roof...i was 10 yrs. old.
I remember Hugo, I remember the screams of people and many of neighbors at the time to my home a family across the street there son walked out of his room when a tree came down and landed in his room. I was 7 at the time. At that time it was frightening for those of us that experienced it. I lived in ladson, sc.
@blue1982flame wow really Blue? I was at the Ladson Elementary School for shelter. I lived in Saddle brook right next to Frankies Fun park when this storm hit.
@TheRaistlain Really? I was at the Ladson Elementary shelter too! I was 13 at the time. I remember sitting in the lunchroom, listening to a radio station out of Florence while the winds howled.
I was in the class rooms near the double doors leading out to the parking lot. Wow small world eh? Yea man I will NEVER forget the way the wind sounded that night or the sounds of the winds ripping the ac units apart on top of the building. Remember what we got for breakfast the next morning? HAHA those small ass boxes of cereal and warm milk!!! You remember how bad it looked outside when we were finally allowed to leave? Look me up on facebook =) Jeremy Werstler
I was in Sumter, SC--40 miles east of Columbia, SC when Hugo hit. I'm guessing I was about 12...give or take a year. It was night time when the wind really got going. At its strongest, you could hear nothing outside but a steady roar and the creak of the house. I slept through a lot of it but I do remember that the eye passed over. Everything got quiet pretty quickly and the sun came out. Outside it was blue skies and the weirdest quiet I've ever heard in my life.
@Jimi257 The sun could not have come out during the eye of Hugo - it made landfall about 1 a.m. local time. The eye would have collapsed on itself by daybreak, having been over land for 6 hours.
I remember stayin up that night and watching the sky, it turned a neon green color, wind was wicked, huge pine trees fallin down. No phone or power! It was awesome and scary at the same time.
I was 2 and a half when Hugo happened. I was just west of Winston Salem when it came through. Seeing trees falling all around the house is one of the very first things I remember as a child. We were fortunate enough not to get hurt, but we did take a lot of damage.
Hugo is the type of hurricane that will literally destroy south Florida someday. Andrew was catastrophic but also very small; a Hugo size/ intensity storm taking a similar path will be even worse; much more storm surge effects and flooding over a wide area, and most of south Florida seeing 100+ mph winds (just as occurred in September 1926 and again in 1947).
I was enrolled as a college freshman in Winston-Salem, NC when dirty-strong Hurricane Hugo slammed into CHARLESTON, SC at the stroke of midnight on Fri., Sept. 22, 1989. I remember watching ABC News *Nightline* as anchor Ted KoppEL conducted a telephone interview with a local Charleston official that was interrupted as he reported the roof beginning to peel off the building and the line went dead. Hugo maintained tropical storm force winds blowing through the Piedmont Triad of NC hours later
While hurricanes & tropical systems are known for prodigious rains, Hurricane Hugo targeting the SOUTH CAROLINA coast is unrelated to supernatural *roots* or 19212-057, despite famous MORTON Salt company slogan: *When It Rains, It Pours*. HENRY J. MORTON (231-13-3534) was born OCT. 27, 1968 & died on SEP. 22, 1986—exactly three years before Hugo made landfall on CHARLESTON, SC on SEP. 22, 1989. Unrelated: Granddad PULP wood; director Quentin TARantINo*s *PULP Fiction*; actor SAMuel L. Jackson
I was born and raised in Georgetown County. We went 2 and half weeks with no power. Small things you take for granted were no where to be found, ice was the biggest!
I live east of Charlotte, it was still a huricane when it came through here. It was a ruff ride here, can't emagine what it was like twords the coast. Was out of power for a week. I was 22 years old.
ah yes i remember hurricane hugo-sep 1989-it swept thru charlotte nc that 1 am morn-my late husband and i and our kids hid in the back bedroom-couldn't make it to our house basement-i stayed up praying-him and the kids slept thru it--next morning we were spared-but elderly lady next door-left side of her home crushed in--we went to see about her-by god's mercy i am still here
Parents lived in Moncks Corner at the time and stayed in the house. Right before the eye came in, a F-3 tornado hit my old house, ripping half of the roof off. My parents were scared to death and when the eye came through, they walked up the stairs and shined the flashlight up to see nothing but stars. Scary shit right there :)
I was in Summerville during it. When the eye passed over us and we were inside it, there was absolutely no noise. No wind, no traffic, no transformers exploding... nothing.
What was amazing was when I went outside and looked up and could see stars.
Longest, scariest night of my life. My mom and I slept in the living room, and I'll never forget those howling winds. We lived about 40 miles north of Columbia, and even that far inland our town was devastated. I remember being at band practice in high school about 6pm when the winds started picking up. Power went out about 2am. Scary night.
It amazes me that there is no coverage of the devastation Hugo did to St. Croix, USVI long before it reached SC. Nothing much has changed 20 years later. It's only news when a storm threatens the mainland. Like we don't exist. No worries. We will never forget.
I was in the US Navy at Charleston S.C. the day this Hurricane hit...I watched the eye of the storm come and go...14' storm surge flooded the base and the entire first floor of every building was under water. There were 155 mph winds, and seven F-5 Tornados inside that hurricane...the next day all the officer's club yachts were in the parking lot like toys stacked on top of one another and all the cars had been pushed into the sea by the storm surge. Now that is what I call a storm.
wow i'm glad someone uploaded this coverage of hurricane hugo, i wasn't born until a year later but i'm still trying to learn & research about this storm.
this was the first hurricane i remember seeing on the weather channel...they were still rebuilding when we visited myrtle beach in april of 1991...several of the beachfront hotels were still damaged. even 19 months later
I was 2 when this hit. I lived and still live in Moncks Corner which is about 30 minutes north of Charleston. I will never forget the very few memories that I have of this storm.
my parents lived in charlotte when hugo hit they said that in the eye it sounded like a fright trian.
After the storm passed there were trees down all over and they coverd the roads soon after i was born and my mom mstil calls me the hugo baby weird i now
I was barely 9 when hugo hit and rode out the storm at Charleston Air Force Base. Our entire block and back yard looked like a war zone, like someone dropped a nuke or something. We were pretty lucky that night too with the number of tornadoes that touched down within feet of the house and knocked the trees down the opposite direction. When it comes to hurricanes Cat.3 or higher I'm gone, I won't stick around a second time, I didn't have a choice the first time, but I do now.
I was stationed on the Air Force Base at that time. I lived on Henry Drive. I had my wife and son leave and go to my sister's house in Matthews NC the night before it hit. I was allowed to leave the next morning and met up with them. We left that afternoon and headed to my parent's house in Covington Va. As we were getting to my parent's house late that night the eye of the storm was passing over Charleston. I came back three days later and was without power for almost 3 weeks.
I was staying with relatives in Darlington, SC, which is between Charleston and Charlotte and 70 miles due west of Myrtle Beach. Hugo ROARED in,knocked out every plate glass window on the town square and made a
big mess. The weird thing was the way the trees were all twisted and broken off about 15 ft. above the ground. Just total forests like this. Never seen anything like that before.
I lived in Charlotte during Hugo. Those dumnass rednecks told me not to worry about it because hurricanes don't make it inland to Charlotte. Boy are they idiots.
Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island of Montserrat, which is in the Leeward Islands, 28 miles southwest of Antigua. Lets just say everything that exists on the island now was built post Hugo...everything previous was completely gone...buildings were not even recognizable. But you don't hear about the Caribbean...just the states.
My parents lived in St. Croix USVI. It was a cat 4 when it hit them. 7 people hiding in a small concrete room. For 8 hours, then the eye came. Then another 5 hours back in room. 95% of the buildings had extreme damage. Most buildings were just gone. Then the looting. Rastas took over Fredrikstead pier waved machetes to ward off the US Navy and the National Guard. My parents slept w/ thier guns. They had no power for 6 months. So. Carolina wasn't as bad. But You don't hear about ST.Croix. Figures
yeah u must have looked away when the rastas seen the big guns cuz they ran the hell off once navy,army came on land
oh an national guard were looting the stores alongside the rastas but when navy an army took over the only other threat were the arabians ontop of their stores with ak47's.
i was 17 when hugo hit in 1989. i have alot of family members who lived in charleston and they decided to ride the storm out. they lost power and had over a dozen tornadoes to hit their homes and the roof came off and they stood in 2 feet of water inside the homes and they witnessed the wall breathing in and out with pressure built up on them. it was an experience for them that they would never forget, even to this day in time.
I wasn't quite a year old when Hugo hit Charleston. Living in Charleston (more specifically, Goose Creek), my family was remarkably lucky, with only one broken window (in my room, go figure) and one or two downed trees, especially considering the devastation that Hugo laid on Charleston.
I was 4 when hugo came and I lived in Georgetown. I went to stay with my grandma and I slept throught the whole thing...lol! My mom said she was up by herself through the whole thing freaking out. It's a good thing we left our house because when we got home the next day a tree had fallen on our roof.
We (wife and I) lived in Surfside Beach and, due to pure luck, moved out of our Surfside Drive apartment (few blocks from beach) into Deerfield Plantation (about half mile from beach) that afternoon as Hugo approached. There were only gusts of wind when we fell asleep about 9 pm, but strong winds when we opened the window around 1:30 am to look outside. The next morning (around 6 am), we went down to the beach to photograph the damage.
We got a lot of great photographs of the storm damage that morning. One showed a dislocated house in the middle of the road (Ocean Blvd) with painted road lines appearing to go in one door and continuing out another door on the other side. Still another showed a house with one side completely torn off, yet the room contents still intact (furniture in place, pictures on wall, book on coffee table, etc). Others showed more serious damage - houses in rubble, buildings gone, pier gone, and so on.
I was 18 years old and lived in Garden City Beach, just 6 miles south of Myrtle Beach. The damage was devastating, i saw it first hand. Walking on the beaches seeing homes split in half, some gone altogether, some picked up and moved down the street. After all these years watching this clip brings back such vivids memories for me.
we had a beach house in oceanside village then. i remember walking from there to garden city pier after we got back into town from fayetteville. it looked like a nuclear bomb went off down there, and we were walking down ocean blvd on probably 4-6 feet of sand
My mother also had an beach house in Oceanside Village. We lived on Surfside Drive at the time (moved to Deerfield that afternoon as Hugo approached) and had decided to stay. However, my mother left town along with the rest of the family (my sister, brother with his wife, etc). When we checked the next morning, the only real damage to her house was a aluminum storm door that had blown open which we closed.
i was 6 when this happened i lived in northwoods off of river ave it was funny cause the eye stopped over my house. then hugo said we are goin to destory everything and goose creek comment dude back then there was nothing in goose creek but a taco bell and 2 stop lights u didnt rebuild anything there was nothing to rebuild u just upgraded
My family and I lived in Wytheville, VA in 1989 and I remember what was left of Hugo coming through. It was still a strong tropical storm at that point. It was amazing to see what it did. It knocked down most of the trees in our yard. It was so strong that we got out of school that day. I remember going outside and the ground was so saturated it felt like walking on jello or pudding. Hugo is responsible for my interest in hurricanes to this day.
You probably would have had gusts to hurricane force, especially in the higher mountains. Winds increase as you go up in elevation and I know the sustained winds at that point were about 60 mph.
I live in Beaufort, South Carolina. We were fortunate that we didn't sustain the type of damage Charleston did. I was 7yrs. old & my family & friends of our family headed to Columbia to ride out the storm further inland. I remember I was so scared. I didn't know if we were going to have a house when we got back or if I was going to ever see my pet dogs (Bogie & Sasha) again. The only thing we lost were some roof shingles. I can't believe this was almost 20yrs. ago! It seems like just yesterday.
I also can't believe for a few years after that, I stylishly wore a white sweatshirt that said "I SURVIVED HURRICANE HUGO" under my overalls (with the one strap off).
I will never forget Hugo.....I worked at a hotel in Chas., SC right off of I-26 & our rooms were filled with people that lived closer to the beach areas. Afterwards we had a bunch of people staying that were part of the clean-up & some that were just trying to make money fixing houses - they were pretty much slobs & ruined carpets and other items. The good news is that our home wasn't damaged(just some trees down) & no one I knew was hurt.
I survived David hitting Myrtle Beach in 1979, Hugo in Charlotte in 1989. Enough Hurricanes for me. Hugo was a destructive animal. I was in the NC National Guard and we were called in by Sue Myrick (Mayor of Charlotte) back then to assist in cleanup operations
That was because it was moving quite fast (about 25-30 mph) and it takes quite some time for a storm with 140-150 mph winds to weaken...it officially made landfall with 140 mph winds but some forecasters believe it had winds of 150-160 mph (maybe Category 5 at landfall).
Wow! I was 6 years old, in Summerville SC, and was up for the WHOLE thing! Ever since then, I get nervous when the clouds get too dark! Thanks Hugo, for my Thunderstorm-phobia! lol! You gotta admit though, the weather was great the next day! Breezy and cool! :)
I remember after it was all over, my dad was still out to sea (NAVY) helping with the barricades. We were living in the Spring Hill apartment complex in Goose Creek where my mom was a manager for a time. When the power came back on, some crazy lady from the apartment above us came storming through the stairwell shouting and getting excited. Scared the shit out of me and my little brother worse than the hurricane, but we were happy to get our Nintendo back.
Thank God, Mayor Joe Riley rebuilt the entire Tri-County area. As The Mayor of the Charleston Metro area he must have felt it was his duty. Without him thousands could have perished. We all owe him for our salvation.
You have got to be kidding. Smilin' Joe Riley had absolutely NOTHING to do with us rebuilding Summerville.
Nor did he have anything to do with the recovery in Moncks Corner, Goose Creek, St. George, Bonneau, St. Stephen, Ladson, or any other town you care to mention that lies outside of the city limits of Charleston.
Hi! I had a friend once from P.R. We met in the summer of 1989 in Florida. His name was Jesus. When I returned home to Canada, he would call me and send me letters with pictures. After hurricane hugo hit, my letters to him returned to me marked "no known address". And the phone lines were disconnected. Any idea of how I could try and post pictures of him and his family?I would really like to know if he is ok. Thanks for any help.
I remember that storm like it was yesterday. I was four years old and a tornado touched down in our back yard. I lived in Goose Creek then, about ten-fifteen minutes from Charleston.
I remember working on dialing up radars out of CHS and updating the little yellow dots (folks who worked the G3 shift know what I mean!) on the Auroura back then. TWC had only been in its 'new' facilities for a few months. Kevin, George, where are you now!
Yea. We have all changed a ton in twenty years! That's Dennis Miller's voice on the 'stills PSA' That's graphics from the Quantel Paint Box! QPB live on!
Flashback! I was 13 in '89 and I remember a girl who moved from N.Y.State to S.C. right before Hugo hit.
I do not know what happened to her.
ilovebobgunton 1 month ago
my mom was in that hurricane when it was a category 3 ( i think category 4).
TheZeldaplayer99 2 months ago
bet this was filmed on a video tape lol
bobbysc7 4 months ago
i lived on the military base close to charleston..we stuck it out in the house. i will never forget that night, and the many long weeks after.I SURVIVED A D-I-R-E-C-T HIT FROM HUGO!!!....only lost some shingles from the roof...i was 10 yrs. old.
out4gd1 4 months ago
i was born the day after hugo struck my country :D 09/19/89
lethe9000 5 months ago
:33 if you say that's rob fowler i will have to slap somebody
severrnijKGU 6 months ago
. I SURVIVED HURRICANE HUGO!
HolyCity2012 6 months ago
This video is gonna get a lot of hits the next few days while we wait for Hurricane Irene. Stay safe fellow South Carolina residents.
WrestlingWebisode 6 months ago 3
@WrestlingWebisode this hurricane is gonna blow peoples socks off
predator45655 6 months ago
I remember Hugo, I remember the screams of people and many of neighbors at the time to my home a family across the street there son walked out of his room when a tree came down and landed in his room. I was 7 at the time. At that time it was frightening for those of us that experienced it. I lived in ladson, sc.
blue1982flame 7 months ago
@blue1982flame wow really Blue? I was at the Ladson Elementary School for shelter. I lived in Saddle brook right next to Frankies Fun park when this storm hit.
TheRaistlain 6 months ago
@TheRaistlain Really? I was at the Ladson Elementary shelter too! I was 13 at the time. I remember sitting in the lunchroom, listening to a radio station out of Florence while the winds howled.
czervik 6 months ago
@czervik
I was in the class rooms near the double doors leading out to the parking lot. Wow small world eh? Yea man I will NEVER forget the way the wind sounded that night or the sounds of the winds ripping the ac units apart on top of the building. Remember what we got for breakfast the next morning? HAHA those small ass boxes of cereal and warm milk!!! You remember how bad it looked outside when we were finally allowed to leave? Look me up on facebook =) Jeremy Werstler
TheRaistlain 6 months ago
I live in northeast Tennessee... I remember what was left the center came right over us. I remember our winds gusting 50-60 mph!
Toni7859 11 months ago
We were well into the storm when this forecast was originally shown. I SURVIVED HURRICANE HUGO!
McKryssy 11 months ago
I was just 3 and remember the rain just pouring down... the thunder and lightning... spooky.
talladegajunkie1439 1 year ago
I was in Sumter, SC--40 miles east of Columbia, SC when Hugo hit. I'm guessing I was about 12...give or take a year. It was night time when the wind really got going. At its strongest, you could hear nothing outside but a steady roar and the creak of the house. I slept through a lot of it but I do remember that the eye passed over. Everything got quiet pretty quickly and the sun came out. Outside it was blue skies and the weirdest quiet I've ever heard in my life.
Jimi257 1 year ago
@Jimi257 The sun could not have come out during the eye of Hugo - it made landfall about 1 a.m. local time. The eye would have collapsed on itself by daybreak, having been over land for 6 hours.
nickthestick26 6 months ago
my grandapa my grandma and mom was in this storm
JAKEFOWLER1999 1 year ago
Who is that in the first clip?
talladegajunkie1439 1 year ago
interesting video. I was 9 months old in Charleston during this, our entire house was destroyed
cake2345678 1 year ago
I remember stayin up that night and watching the sky, it turned a neon green color, wind was wicked, huge pine trees fallin down. No phone or power! It was awesome and scary at the same time.
1bitten2xshy 1 year ago
I was 2 and a half when Hugo happened. I was just west of Winston Salem when it came through. Seeing trees falling all around the house is one of the very first things I remember as a child. We were fortunate enough not to get hurt, but we did take a lot of damage.
rustynail874 1 year ago
Hugo is the type of hurricane that will literally destroy south Florida someday. Andrew was catastrophic but also very small; a Hugo size/ intensity storm taking a similar path will be even worse; much more storm surge effects and flooding over a wide area, and most of south Florida seeing 100+ mph winds (just as occurred in September 1926 and again in 1947).
Pearly1961 1 year ago
i remember this very well it just skinned sav. i was on the islad that night willimington and we got some damage from it,makes you think.
musicman257 1 year ago
I was enrolled as a college freshman in Winston-Salem, NC when dirty-strong Hurricane Hugo slammed into CHARLESTON, SC at the stroke of midnight on Fri., Sept. 22, 1989. I remember watching ABC News *Nightline* as anchor Ted KoppEL conducted a telephone interview with a local Charleston official that was interrupted as he reported the roof beginning to peel off the building and the line went dead. Hugo maintained tropical storm force winds blowing through the Piedmont Triad of NC hours later
GWhiz99 1 year ago
While hurricanes & tropical systems are known for prodigious rains, Hurricane Hugo targeting the SOUTH CAROLINA coast is unrelated to supernatural *roots* or 19212-057, despite famous MORTON Salt company slogan: *When It Rains, It Pours*. HENRY J. MORTON (231-13-3534) was born OCT. 27, 1968 & died on SEP. 22, 1986—exactly three years before Hugo made landfall on CHARLESTON, SC on SEP. 22, 1989. Unrelated: Granddad PULP wood; director Quentin TARantINo*s *PULP Fiction*; actor SAMuel L. Jackson
GWhiz99 1 year ago
I was born and raised in Georgetown County. We went 2 and half weeks with no power. Small things you take for granted were no where to be found, ice was the biggest!
bob22896 1 year ago
I live east of Charlotte, it was still a huricane when it came through here. It was a ruff ride here, can't emagine what it was like twords the coast. Was out of power for a week. I was 22 years old.
sp00ktube 1 year ago
i was born close to 5 years after and my parents and grandparents still rember this storm casue it reakky affected all of south carolina
narutodemonfox14 1 year ago
it also swept through winston salem
wildguy5708 1 year ago
ah yes i remember hurricane hugo-sep 1989-it swept thru charlotte nc that 1 am morn-my late husband and i and our kids hid in the back bedroom-couldn't make it to our house basement-i stayed up praying-him and the kids slept thru it--next morning we were spared-but elderly lady next door-left side of her home crushed in--we went to see about her-by god's mercy i am still here
melollylolly 2 years ago
Isn't that George, the weatherman from WECT in Wilmington, NC???
saf87fr 2 years ago
Why yes, that is George Elliot.
ncheel231976 2 years ago
20 years ago today I got married during Hurricane Hugo!
mrscucch 2 years ago
Parents lived in Moncks Corner at the time and stayed in the house. Right before the eye came in, a F-3 tornado hit my old house, ripping half of the roof off. My parents were scared to death and when the eye came through, they walked up the stairs and shined the flashlight up to see nothing but stars. Scary shit right there :)
ChaoticCorey 2 years ago
I was in Summerville during it. When the eye passed over us and we were inside it, there was absolutely no noise. No wind, no traffic, no transformers exploding... nothing.
What was amazing was when I went outside and looked up and could see stars.
geekboy65 2 years ago
Longest, scariest night of my life. My mom and I slept in the living room, and I'll never forget those howling winds. We lived about 40 miles north of Columbia, and even that far inland our town was devastated. I remember being at band practice in high school about 6pm when the winds started picking up. Power went out about 2am. Scary night.
SpurredDevilSC 2 years ago
My mom and dad were in charlotte at this time and 2 trees hit their apartment and his truck!! Great video.
mikay51 2 years ago
It amazes me that there is no coverage of the devastation Hugo did to St. Croix, USVI long before it reached SC. Nothing much has changed 20 years later. It's only news when a storm threatens the mainland. Like we don't exist. No worries. We will never forget.
akd79 2 years ago
20 yr remembering this september
eivom 2 years ago
Good ol' Kevan Ramer. (from 1:00 onwards)
brownies4you 2 years ago
I was in the US Navy at Charleston S.C. the day this Hurricane hit...I watched the eye of the storm come and go...14' storm surge flooded the base and the entire first floor of every building was under water. There were 155 mph winds, and seven F-5 Tornados inside that hurricane...the next day all the officer's club yachts were in the parking lot like toys stacked on top of one another and all the cars had been pushed into the sea by the storm surge. Now that is what I call a storm.
AbdullahMikail 2 years ago
i wasnt alive i belive that this was a crazy storm from wat i heard
narutodemonfox14 2 years ago
i was in mullins sc and staying with my grandmother dammage was everywhere
exzibit99 2 years ago
Lived in Goose Creek about 10 miles from Charleston! Awesome storm but didnt like the damage!Category 4 with 135mph sustained winds.
3n4ever 2 years ago
wow i'm glad someone uploaded this coverage of hurricane hugo, i wasn't born until a year later but i'm still trying to learn & research about this storm.
Lee0990 2 years ago 6
i lived in goose creek back in 88-89 dad was in Navy pretty nice town
itzamia 2 years ago
Great Video!!! I was not born but my family lived in Rock Hill, SC when this happened.
holdenlecroy 2 years ago
I was 8 years old in Manning SC. :)
devenrdougherty 2 years ago
this was the first hurricane i remember seeing on the weather channel...they were still rebuilding when we visited myrtle beach in april of 1991...several of the beachfront hotels were still damaged. even 19 months later
domirules28 2 years ago
I remember when the hurricane maps looked like this.
splent 2 years ago
my mom was hit my this hurricane lukily she survived it was a catergory 5
xXFaTaLBMHXx 3 years ago
it wasnt category 5
bermudawx 2 years ago
Yes it was a cat 5, I was there working ta the police dept when it hit
bluekittySC 2 years ago
@bermudawx hurricane hugo was a category 5 sustaining winds of 160mph, hugo made landfall near charelston SC with winds of 135mph
HERPTOLOGY44 10 months ago
it wasnt a cat 5 at landfall.
VercittiGangBoy 2 years ago
the first guy reporting is George elliot, he is still a weatherman at Wilmington, NC. wect news
cemullen94 3 years ago
I thought that was him! I used to love watching him on WECT but now I can't get it in my county anymore.
anoceanbetween 3 years ago
I was 2 when this hit. I lived and still live in Moncks Corner which is about 30 minutes north of Charleston. I will never forget the very few memories that I have of this storm.
tonygurl20 3 years ago
ANY GUYS UP?
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TALK TO ME xz
Henryandrex 3 years ago
my parents lived in charlotte when hugo hit they said that in the eye it sounded like a fright trian.
After the storm passed there were trees down all over and they coverd the roads soon after i was born and my mom mstil calls me the hugo baby weird i now
ittybittyshrew48 3 years ago
OMG. I was born on December that same year. The hurricane passed right over Puerto Rico...3 months later...I WAS BORN....lol
wilmerharry 3 years ago
I was barely 9 when hugo hit and rode out the storm at Charleston Air Force Base. Our entire block and back yard looked like a war zone, like someone dropped a nuke or something. We were pretty lucky that night too with the number of tornadoes that touched down within feet of the house and knocked the trees down the opposite direction. When it comes to hurricanes Cat.3 or higher I'm gone, I won't stick around a second time, I didn't have a choice the first time, but I do now.
SDBOY08 3 years ago
i lived on the air force base then. i was about 10. i lived on hutchinson ave. do you remember it?
msaa28 3 years ago
I was stationed on the Air Force Base at that time. I lived on Henry Drive. I had my wife and son leave and go to my sister's house in Matthews NC the night before it hit. I was allowed to leave the next morning and met up with them. We left that afternoon and headed to my parent's house in Covington Va. As we were getting to my parent's house late that night the eye of the storm was passing over Charleston. I came back three days later and was without power for almost 3 weeks.
waredskinfan 3 years ago
I was staying with relatives in Darlington, SC, which is between Charleston and Charlotte and 70 miles due west of Myrtle Beach. Hugo ROARED in,knocked out every plate glass window on the town square and made a
big mess. The weird thing was the way the trees were all twisted and broken off about 15 ft. above the ground. Just total forests like this. Never seen anything like that before.
windonthewater 3 years ago
I lived in Charlotte during Hugo. Those dumnass rednecks told me not to worry about it because hurricanes don't make it inland to Charlotte. Boy are they idiots.
winnardairshows 3 years ago
I lived in Charlotte also. Hugo was a freak. Chances of a storm repeating this movement are slim.
jeenafofi 3 years ago
rare voice of reason
OrigLanceR 3 years ago
I was living in Myrtle Beach during Hugo and wow the damage there was crazy but nothing like Charleston.
voodoo1966 3 years ago
Is that Geraldo?
buckstawordup 3 years ago
lol
BoneThugsEternal 3 years ago
Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island of Montserrat, which is in the Leeward Islands, 28 miles southwest of Antigua. Lets just say everything that exists on the island now was built post Hugo...everything previous was completely gone...buildings were not even recognizable. But you don't hear about the Caribbean...just the states.
sasonly1 3 years ago
I lived out on Isle of Palms - talk about nothing left...
SilverKey01 3 years ago
My parents lived in St. Croix USVI. It was a cat 4 when it hit them. 7 people hiding in a small concrete room. For 8 hours, then the eye came. Then another 5 hours back in room. 95% of the buildings had extreme damage. Most buildings were just gone. Then the looting. Rastas took over Fredrikstead pier waved machetes to ward off the US Navy and the National Guard. My parents slept w/ thier guns. They had no power for 6 months. So. Carolina wasn't as bad. But You don't hear about ST.Croix. Figures
sushay14 3 years ago
yeah u must have looked away when the rastas seen the big guns cuz they ran the hell off once navy,army came on land
oh an national guard were looting the stores alongside the rastas but when navy an army took over the only other threat were the arabians ontop of their stores with ak47's.
st croix usvi
cassandra6266 3 years ago
Yea real smart, waving off the people there to help you. Morons.
iammaldo 3 years ago
my friends brother gladys was named the same thing! his name is hugo! OMG!
pretty08princess 3 years ago
i was 17 when hugo hit in 1989. i have alot of family members who lived in charleston and they decided to ride the storm out. they lost power and had over a dozen tornadoes to hit their homes and the roof came off and they stood in 2 feet of water inside the homes and they witnessed the wall breathing in and out with pressure built up on them. it was an experience for them that they would never forget, even to this day in time.
kellyvette 3 years ago
I was in 11th grade and lived in Charlotte NC when Hugo came. It was crazy!!
jonnut 3 years ago
I was in the upstate and things were flyinig by the window horizontal to the ground. I may have been 6 or 7 when It happened it was kinda fun for us.
AppalachianSC 3 years ago
I wasn't quite a year old when Hugo hit Charleston. Living in Charleston (more specifically, Goose Creek), my family was remarkably lucky, with only one broken window (in my room, go figure) and one or two downed trees, especially considering the devastation that Hugo laid on Charleston.
JoeytheHDK 3 years ago
damn, i was born in the same year with the same name
superdragon35 3 years ago
haha, I miss crappy radar!
xobrentox 3 years ago 5
Ah, the good ol' days of crappy radar. :)
undertakerfreak1127 3 years ago
I remember hugo! I was about 9 years old! I lived in North Carolina
jessica4unc 3 years ago
I was 4 when hugo came and I lived in Georgetown. I went to stay with my grandma and I slept throught the whole thing...lol! My mom said she was up by herself through the whole thing freaking out. It's a good thing we left our house because when we got home the next day a tree had fallen on our roof.
blaingel 3 years ago 2
We (wife and I) lived in Surfside Beach and, due to pure luck, moved out of our Surfside Drive apartment (few blocks from beach) into Deerfield Plantation (about half mile from beach) that afternoon as Hugo approached. There were only gusts of wind when we fell asleep about 9 pm, but strong winds when we opened the window around 1:30 am to look outside. The next morning (around 6 am), we went down to the beach to photograph the damage.
stewartx5 3 years ago
We got a lot of great photographs of the storm damage that morning. One showed a dislocated house in the middle of the road (Ocean Blvd) with painted road lines appearing to go in one door and continuing out another door on the other side. Still another showed a house with one side completely torn off, yet the room contents still intact (furniture in place, pictures on wall, book on coffee table, etc). Others showed more serious damage - houses in rubble, buildings gone, pier gone, and so on.
stewartx5 3 years ago
We lived 80 miles inlad in Florence, SC, and I remember this storm still being one hell of a bitch. 100 yr old trees blocked the roads. It was awful.
Aubby18 3 years ago
alot of inland was worse than myrtle beach. heck, charlotte even had worse winds than myrtle. we just got all of the surge
jtm12180 3 years ago
he looks like a perv
giub99 3 years ago
I was 18 years old and lived in Garden City Beach, just 6 miles south of Myrtle Beach. The damage was devastating, i saw it first hand. Walking on the beaches seeing homes split in half, some gone altogether, some picked up and moved down the street. After all these years watching this clip brings back such vivids memories for me.
Buccaneersfan710 3 years ago 2
we had a beach house in oceanside village then. i remember walking from there to garden city pier after we got back into town from fayetteville. it looked like a nuclear bomb went off down there, and we were walking down ocean blvd on probably 4-6 feet of sand
jtm12180 3 years ago
My mother also had an beach house in Oceanside Village. We lived on Surfside Drive at the time (moved to Deerfield that afternoon as Hugo approached) and had decided to stay. However, my mother left town along with the rest of the family (my sister, brother with his wife, etc). When we checked the next morning, the only real damage to her house was a aluminum storm door that had blown open which we closed.
stewartx5 3 years ago
i was 6 when this happened i lived in northwoods off of river ave it was funny cause the eye stopped over my house. then hugo said we are goin to destory everything and goose creek comment dude back then there was nothing in goose creek but a taco bell and 2 stop lights u didnt rebuild anything there was nothing to rebuild u just upgraded
damuke 3 years ago
I was born this year, but still remember these graphics from the mid 90s. This hurricane was impressive I heard, and it looks impressive.
skyvapor 3 years ago
My family and I lived in Wytheville, VA in 1989 and I remember what was left of Hugo coming through. It was still a strong tropical storm at that point. It was amazing to see what it did. It knocked down most of the trees in our yard. It was so strong that we got out of school that day. I remember going outside and the ground was so saturated it felt like walking on jello or pudding. Hugo is responsible for my interest in hurricanes to this day.
JTWRZK 3 years ago
You probably would have had gusts to hurricane force, especially in the higher mountains. Winds increase as you go up in elevation and I know the sustained winds at that point were about 60 mph.
itsalleternal 3 years ago
I live in Beaufort, South Carolina. We were fortunate that we didn't sustain the type of damage Charleston did. I was 7yrs. old & my family & friends of our family headed to Columbia to ride out the storm further inland. I remember I was so scared. I didn't know if we were going to have a house when we got back or if I was going to ever see my pet dogs (Bogie & Sasha) again. The only thing we lost were some roof shingles. I can't believe this was almost 20yrs. ago! It seems like just yesterday.
CitySon 3 years ago
I also can't believe for a few years after that, I stylishly wore a white sweatshirt that said "I SURVIVED HURRICANE HUGO" under my overalls (with the one strap off).
CitySon 3 years ago
i was 5 when this came and i still remember it. we lived in Charleston at the time.
jcstoner 3 years ago
I was 9 when Hugo hit and lived in Florence as well.
Nevergoingtohappen 3 years ago
I was 6 when Hugo hit. I live in florence and I remember it very well.
jshizle55 4 years ago
YEAAA Hugo was bad ass i was in Charlotte when it came through.
DimitriNakos 4 years ago
Me too! I never thought a hurricane could reach Charlotte at hurricane strength! But it sure did! Lots of damage to our house!
terrijane61 4 years ago
I will never forget Hugo.....I worked at a hotel in Chas., SC right off of I-26 & our rooms were filled with people that lived closer to the beach areas. Afterwards we had a bunch of people staying that were part of the clean-up & some that were just trying to make money fixing houses - they were pretty much slobs & ruined carpets and other items. The good news is that our home wasn't damaged(just some trees down) & no one I knew was hurt.
concertmom40 4 years ago
I survived David hitting Myrtle Beach in 1979, Hugo in Charlotte in 1989. Enough Hurricanes for me. Hugo was a destructive animal. I was in the NC National Guard and we were called in by Sue Myrick (Mayor of Charlotte) back then to assist in cleanup operations
iflyacrj 4 years ago 2
I wonder why the radar picture looks a lot better with many green areas and few darks. I think I only saw one spec of yellow.
Hawqis1 4 years ago
lived at ocean isle beach when it hit...rough stuff there...was about 8 or 9 or so...scary
snazzjacket76 4 years ago
i was living in hickory nc north of charlotte and it was really bad there trees down all over the place cool storm
TALLMATE73 4 years ago
This is so kool! Thank You!
chickennotme 4 years ago
I remember Hugo
autrey19 4 years ago
I was in North Carleston at the time. One of the scarriest moments in my life.
ibejake 4 years ago
I met someone who lived north of Charlotte and he said Hugo was bad there. It didn't weaken much after hitting land since it was moving so fast.
ILovestorms 4 years ago
I live right outside of Charlotte. Yes it was bad. I didnt get my power back for a week.
HeartOfFire911 4 years ago 4
That was because it was moving quite fast (about 25-30 mph) and it takes quite some time for a storm with 140-150 mph winds to weaken...it officially made landfall with 140 mph winds but some forecasters believe it had winds of 150-160 mph (maybe Category 5 at landfall).
itsalleternal 4 years ago 2
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I actually had my thunderstorm phobia after Hurricane Luis in 1995.
Copper20 4 years ago 2
Wow! I was 6 years old, in Summerville SC, and was up for the WHOLE thing! Ever since then, I get nervous when the clouds get too dark! Thanks Hugo, for my Thunderstorm-phobia! lol! You gotta admit though, the weather was great the next day! Breezy and cool! :)
angelbratzhere 4 years ago
Remember this night very well in NC.12 years old, and school was cancelled the night Hugo hit.TTons of rain and windy conditions.
UNCJerry77 4 years ago
I remember after it was all over, my dad was still out to sea (NAVY) helping with the barricades. We were living in the Spring Hill apartment complex in Goose Creek where my mom was a manager for a time. When the power came back on, some crazy lady from the apartment above us came storming through the stairwell shouting and getting excited. Scared the shit out of me and my little brother worse than the hurricane, but we were happy to get our Nintendo back.
alphalord420 4 years ago
Thank God, Mayor Joe Riley rebuilt the entire Tri-County area. As The Mayor of the Charleston Metro area he must have felt it was his duty. Without him thousands could have perished. We all owe him for our salvation.
bigbubba2143 4 years ago
LMAO!!! Joe Riley? Rebuilt the entire tri-county?
You have got to be kidding. Smilin' Joe Riley had absolutely NOTHING to do with us rebuilding Summerville.
Nor did he have anything to do with the recovery in Moncks Corner, Goose Creek, St. George, Bonneau, St. Stephen, Ladson, or any other town you care to mention that lies outside of the city limits of Charleston.
"Our savior Joe Riley" ROFL.
geekboy65 4 years ago
:) Joe Riley's a schmuck.
sarah13216 3 years ago
What've you been smoking?
Goose Creek's not in Riley's "domain". The people of Goose Creek rebuilt their city. I know; I was one of them.
sarah13216 3 years ago
Hi! I had a friend once from P.R. We met in the summer of 1989 in Florida. His name was Jesus. When I returned home to Canada, he would call me and send me letters with pictures. After hurricane hugo hit, my letters to him returned to me marked "no known address". And the phone lines were disconnected. Any idea of how I could try and post pictures of him and his family?I would really like to know if he is ok. Thanks for any help.
goslings2 4 years ago
Weather Channel is now all about Atlanta.. ATLANTA ATLANTA, and storm stories and ads.
hummtide 4 years ago
heck, when I was little it was better than it is now...
kailynleto 4 years ago
I remember walking out into the eye of that thing when I was six... The sky was an eirie green color.
tfcdomprice 4 years ago
I remember that storm like it was yesterday. I was four years old and a tornado touched down in our back yard. I lived in Goose Creek then, about ten-fifteen minutes from Charleston.
alwaysangel 4 years ago
I remember working on dialing up radars out of CHS and updating the little yellow dots (folks who worked the G3 shift know what I mean!) on the Auroura back then. TWC had only been in its 'new' facilities for a few months. Kevin, George, where are you now!
schowell 4 years ago
George is currently the meteorologist at WECT out of Wilmington, NC. I thought his voice sounded familiar although his face has changed a ton lol.
-=The Prynce
the0prynce 4 years ago
Yea. We have all changed a ton in twenty years! That's Dennis Miller's voice on the 'stills PSA' That's graphics from the Quantel Paint Box! QPB live on!
schowell 4 years ago
That is Dennis Smith...
schowell 4 years ago
That is former OCM George Elliot!
ILovestorms 4 years ago