choros de ignorantes incultos sin educacion los animales son por lo regular los que marcan un territorio aqui todos vivimos en una sola casa que es nuestro planeta yo soy puertorriqueÑo y e aprendido mucho de mi pastor que es dominicano y no me averguenzo decir que e aprendido mucho con el y le deceo lo mejor a los americanos,mejicanos y a todo el mundo y aqui se esta hablando de un fenomeno natural que cuando pasa por algun pais no pregunta de que nacionalidad es la jente y mata personas igual
i remember in the national geographic video cyclone you said the rain had been drivin into the walls through the stairs coming down the stairway. wasn't the 150mph wind hitting something at the bottom of the building?
Hi everybody! I'm stayed in Guadeloupe during the great and beautiful hurricane Hugo! During the night between 16 th and 17th of September 1989 , the noise of the wind and the rain was INCREDIBLE for me! Now i seeing your video and is true , it was liked that during Huricane Hugo ! Thank you for the post and escuse me for my English!
despues de mi tierra mexicana PUERTO RICO ES EL PAIS EL CUAL YO QUIERO un chingo.ahh pero los puerto riqueños de la isla son diferentes a los q viven en USA. los que viven en USA. SON RACISTAS,y discriminana a los MEXICANOS SIN SIQUIERA CONOZER COMO ES REALMENTE UN MEXICANO.MEXICANO. NO UN MEXICOAMERICANO.PERO en fin saludos a toda la isla del encanto.saludos a fajardo ,a caguas,y san juan AHHH Y claro como olvidarme de EL BELLO SANTURCE.. el barrio mas bonito de san juan..!!
@guerrero820 ay papa...gracias por las cosas bonitas que dices de puerto rico. Y TIENES TODA la razon. el puertoriqueno de u.s.a es gente cafre, vulgar y naca. en puerto rico ay DE TODO...pero aca? a mi todos me dan verguenza.....
@elsoda JA..!! no,denadamihermano..!! es lo siento ..saludos a toda lagente de PUERTO RICO. y es cierto verdad..?? la mayoria de puertoriquenios q estan en USA. son racistas.por jempo a nosotros no nos quieren nos dicen MOJADOS..!! no nos hablan en espaniol,.pero q importa.. yo sigo queriendoa PUERTO RICO .saludos mi hermano,desde MEXICO AVER CUANDO SE VIENE A PASEAR POR ACA.. EHHH..!!
JODERR..cuando ELhuracan HUGO pego en luquillo yo vivia en FAJARDO pero ya queria correr HAZTA SAN JUAN..!!! PUFFF. si que pego fuerte .ese huracan ...!!! despues de eso me regrese a MEXICO.. saludos a todos los puerto riqueños de la isla con cariño desde mi tierra mexicana. ahi les dejo mi email. a ver si quieren agregarme YO_SOYGUERRERO@HOT
I still remember this happening, I watched through my window as debris and mini tornadoes passed through my front yard. This storm is my earliest childhood memory, I was almost 3 years old when this happened.
Wow... I left PR the month before this happened I was 12 yrs old.... Then I returned to PR right before Andrew hit Florida... For some reason I always get to skip hurricanes... But this was an awesome video!!!
The long version is better IMO.because you get the full appreciation of the event as it unfolds. The gradual increase in windspeed lets you see just how strong it gets and every second of the strongest wind is important for the full effect.. The difference in quality between the two versions is not significant enough to really matter. This vodeo rocks. It is the best footage I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it.
@cape6000jkg Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video... Hugo was an absolutely unbelievable experience. When I originally posted this video, YouTube allowed "director" accounts to upload clips of any length. Unfortunately, by the time I had the remastered version, they had restricted all video uploads to ten minutes or less. Thanks again for the comment!
I remember very well that days...I was totally scared. My family and myself left our house in Carolina to stay at other family more secure house in Trujillo Alto. The worse thing I remember was the sound of the terrible force winds. It sound like a large scream, instead of wind. It was so creepy. Thanks for the video. I couldn't see the eyewall...your capture was great!
Este video,cada vez que lo veo se me salen las lagrimas,lo que pase ese dia con mi familia teniamos mucho miedo,estabamos en bo maricao,vegaaltay es montanoso los vientos se sentian como 150 millas por hora el viento soplo 18 horas,gracias a Dios que estaba con nosotros.
Yo tambien me acuerdo esto paso tres anos despues d q nos mudamos d p.r. a florida. yo tenia 8anos y todavia me acuerdo q me escondi detras d la casa a llorar pq a mi puerto rico le venia este huracan. como nina al fin solo pensaba en las cosas q deje en pr cuando nos mudamos( munecas, y bisikleta) q segun yo iba a regresar por ellas. Hoy tengo 30anos y todavia me acuerdo como si fuese ayer...I love u Puerto Rico.
wao yo tenia 9 añitos y me acuerdo de un tipo que estaba recojiendo unas cortinas de aluminio basicamente llevandoselas y el viento soplo y salio volando el tipo ahaha wao lo tiro a pal de pies de donde estaba el y otra gente...
excelente video. Pienso que en vez de juzgar leguajes o formas de comunicacion se tuvo los pantalones en ese momento de grabar un video para exponer la catastrofe que causo este huracan... (Consejo) no se fijen en si dijo (Yellow) o Amariiiilllouuuuu, al final de el dia las personas que grabaron esto tuvieron los pantalones de estar despiertos toda la noche y en lamadrugada de este dia>>>>....
Im gonna cry now i'll never forget this day I call this the great storm in puerto rico of 1989 and I also call this the world recored great storm of 1989
Pero mira que clase cojones los de este tipo. Que se cague en su madre. Dale, me voy a meter a un video de katrina a decirle a la gente que hable espanol. Mere pai...
Please!! Use English correctly. These are two different statements. Your message should have read: "English, please!! People, please, you are USA citizens.
Yeah, indyfan22k! Are you and American citizen? Isn't that ironic? Learn to speak your native language (English? I doubt) correctly first and then you will have the standing to demand from others to speak English.
@elquijote007 que pendejo.. los que viven en la isla no son ciudadanos americanos.son PUERTORIQUEÑOS.los que viven usa. no tienen identidad porque son ciudadanos de ningun lado hijue puta.!! LOSQUE VIven en la isla SON PUERTO RIQUEÑOS y hablan como se les de la gana SO PENDEJO..!!! PORque el idioma de puerto rico es el ESPAÑOL .pero tu que eres un refugiado en USA. habla como se te de la gana hijue puta.FEQUERO,mamate un bicho,GUILLAO CABRON..!!
@guerrero820 Somos ciudadanos americanos, pq asi nos lo impusieron para llevarnos a las guerras entre otras cosas. Yo, no dejo de ser puertorriqueño por el hecho de que fuimos invadidos en el 1898, o que mi pasaporte diga otra cosa. Hay estados, hay naciones, y hay colonias en el siglo 21.
@elquijote007 For you if you read this, and for those that, at least check their history and our history. Puerto Rico fue invadido por Estados Unidos en el 1898. Nuestro idioma durante los ultimos 400 años ha sido el español, y asi se quedara. Y digo los ultimos 400 años, porque antes del descubrimiento de PR por los europeos (19 de noviembre de 1493), vivian los Tainos. Aprenda de su historia, aprenda de la nuestra y de los demas paises del mundo antes de hacer tal peticion.
yo estaba en frente de la casa de mi papa en cerro gordo , el vinto y la lluvia estaba cabron.
la pared que queda en la arena de la playa ,mide como 10 pies de alto, las olas media facil como 20 pies o mas . no pudimos salir cerro gordo 2 semanas. pero lo pasamos bien. el viento estada tan cabron que cojimos un par de cocos i los tiramos al aire , parecian balas the canones.... sorry mi espanol sucks !!! tengo mucho mas que desirle pero lo unico que te digo del hurracan hugo ,estubo cabron!!!
yo vivia en brisas de Lares y reuni la familia que pude mi casa era segura la luz se fue y yo se que DIOS nos protegio .junto a mi hermano Quique Ramirez puse una vela en un plato sobre la capota del carro de mi esposa Elsa que estava afuera frente a mi casa los cables electricos y arboles enormes se torcieron como papel y nosotros de madrugada mirabamos la flama de la vela y ni siquiera se movia de lado .DIOS puso sus manos sobre mi casa y solo vimos lo que paso sin ningun daño.
soy dominicano y he vivido varrios huracanes, como david, federico, george pero este fue un moustruo....wuao a la verdad cuanto respeto le tengo a la madre naturaleza....siempre debemos estar pendiente en el tropico cuando llega esos meses.....dios nos guarde.....
I live in fajardo and I was 4 years old. I remember this like it was yesterday. Remember when the grass flew right off the ground and everything gone was gone in a few hours.
A la verdad que no me imaginaba la fuerza de Hugo, yo tenia 15 a~os y de verdad que no entendi lo q fue Hugo hasta que vi este video, simplemente parapelos.
Hello, thank you very much for this footage. I remember I was 7 years old when it happened but I was living in the northwest part of the island, so it wasnt that intense.
Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean and is part of the American Continent. It's been a territory ( more like a colony) of the USA since 1898. All Puerto Ricans are American citizens by birth, though they don't vote in the Presidential elections.
Thanks so much! I recently uploaded a much higher quality (and shorter) version here on YouTube. It's linked in both the video and the video response areas above.
Ese ha sido de los pocos días en que mi familia completa, me refiero a mis abuelos, primos y tios, que estuvimos juntos en casa de mi abuela, jamas olvidare esos días. Para ese entonces tenia 7 años y lo recuerdo como ahora.
Recuerdo exactamente tengo 29 años hoy en dia y para ese Huracan Hugo tenia 10 años recuerdo que se fue la energia electrica habian muchas descargas electricas en el cielo y daba miedo para aquel entonces las casas su mayoria eran en madera y habia pobreza era triste ver las personas llorando mientras abandonaban sus hogares fue triste y muy tenebroso.
yo recuerdo ese huracan yo tenia en ese entonces 18 anos. y recuerdo que teniamos una casita de madera y el huracan se la llevo casi toda, el techo las paredes fue muy duro para mis papas. y fema nos dio ayuda, y tambien me acuerdo que iva una van a repartir comida y ropa por las comunidades. pero gracias a Dios no nos paso nada a nosotros.
I cant beleive I watched this video. I was in Fajardo at the time of HUGO locked up in the house with my family and had a 3 year old and 7 month old twins at the time. Thanks GOD we didnt suffer like some of our neighbors and we had little damage to our home. Thanks to FEMA we got the house back in order after 2 years
George was bad, Hortense was too wet, marilyn was too little, BUT HUGO WAS SO NASTY nobody gonna forget this one... LO QUE HUGO SE LLEVO!! ( What HUGO BLOWs)
Thanks, Billy! Yeah... having an HD video camera for Hugo would have been incredible! That said, the quality of this video is much, much better than what is seen in this clip. Back when I uploaded it, YouTube had a much smaller file size restriction which forced me to highly compress the video file to meet their criteria. Since then I've actually completely re-mastered the Hugo footage and have rendered a new upscaled version in HD... so, look for a shorter, much higher quality clip soon.
how did u uploaded a 28 minute video? i thought it was only 10 minutes? by the way,i hated hugo so much.though i didnt had to go to school,but my house got mess up.
I was in St. Croix at the time when the eye went over at Cat 5 much worse than this. The gusts peaked at 200 mph and the sound was like a freight train with a low picthed deep humming sound that would cause tremors. Those were the gusts. Hugo moved around 8 mph through the island and lasted over 9 hours before it moved away. The US Marines had to come in declaring martial law/curfew for 4 months. If it weren't for Blue Mountain in St. Croix, you would have filmed a CAT5+ Hugo[=
Mike, you once told me that there was one particular gust that occured when you were in the hallway that you thought may have been in the 170mph+ range. Do you know where that gust is in this film, if it is included?
Hi Max. The gust I was referencing is located between 17:13 and 17:29 in this clip. Jim, Andy and I are in the stairwell and there was a very sharp increase in the wind speed during those 15 seconds(when the wind noise jumps from the more constant wail, to the high-pitched screeching sound). Though it's possible higher gusts occurred at other times, this was the highest gust I can remember during the eyewall.
I was in Rio Grande when it hit and it was the worst Hurricane ive been in especially when the eye wall came in you could see the sun and all the sudden .... Horror again.....great video..
Excellent footage indeed. I was 10 when Hurricane Hugo happened. I remember watching it on the Weather Channel, following it from the central Atlantic, to Guadaloupe, to Puerto Rico, missing the Bahamas, and then smashing into South Carolina. This was my first major hurricane to track, and one of the most memorable. I have been fascinated by these storms ever since.
I was 5 years old when this happened I can still remember it like it was yersterday but despite the force of the storm the structural integrity of the houses made out of concrete did withstand the inmense force. Now I live in F.L. and I wonder why people here still prefer the use of gibson board & plywood when desining their homes in a hurricane friendly zone. Thanks for the video its a great documentation.
I passed the whole Hurrcane in a building in Condado near to where you were filming It was an incredible expirence ,we survived also on the stairs of the building with my wife and two boys
Thank for recording what most people havent seen here in P.R.
I was 2 when Hugo hit Charleston a few days after this video was taken. I live in Moncks Corner which is about 30 mins away from Charleston. I dont remember alot from it but I have some very vivid memories that have been stuck in my mind since then that I will never ever forget.
ok man...this is so cool!!You just captured the day I was born!!!!!wow!!september 18,1989,exactly I'm 19 now!! for the first time in my live I saw what happened that day!! thanks man. God bless you!!!
By the way my grandfather put me a nickname after that"Hugo" hahaha What you think about that?
este fue cuando regrese de holyoke usa a salinas p.r. y yo tenia 6 anitos lo recuerdo claritito. LOS TECHOS ZIN VOLANDOS PERROS TABALS ROPA CUANTA COSA HABIA
Incredible an so real. That wind sounded like a screaming child. How horrible and scary that most have been for all those people in Puerto Rico. God help them all!!.
yo tenia 8 meses cuando paso Hugo o sea no me acuerdo de el pero lo pase..y ahora con la tormenta o quizas huracan Omar a ver que pasa en los proximos dias..les deseo el bien estar y seguridad a todos los boricuas a ver si pasamos de esto sin mucha destruccion y malos ratos ya que muchas familias han sufrido suficiente por las lluvias de las semanas pasadas
Yo estaba aki de vacaciones, me acuerdo con mis padres, y mi abuela le decia a mi madre q no adelantara el pasaje ke eso no iba a pasar por aki, y mami no le hizo caso y nos fuimos, 2 dias despues paso. Como al mes mi tio nos envio un video del huracan y se veo bn brutal y la gente robandose tv debajo del aguacero!!! No c supone q se da~e si se moja??
Yo tenia 2 cuando Hugo paso por Puerto Rico, lo unico que recuerdo, que me impacto muchisimo, fue como los carros que estaban estacionandos en el estacionamiento del condominio en el que vivia se viraban "patas pa'rriba"
I was living in new york at the time and I remember calling my Mom and there was no answer. I was scared thinking that my Mothers house didn't make it, then the call went thru and my mother was ok.
I was 15 when it hit our area, Las Piedras. I remember dad taking us out to see how the sea birds passed our house searching protection. We were with all the family and my mom's sister. The water came in trough the electric plugs in the wall. We were without water for two weeks and without light for one month. El Yunque was like elrapto says, like it was badly burned and all the houses were covered in leaves plastered to the wall.
I lived in Isla Verde at the time. The condo next door the windows blew out and the furniture right behind it.After the whole ordeal there was no electricity,water etc.A beautiful flamboyan tree that was near Lloren torrens came down on La Baldorioty.When I saw the devastation I sat on the sidewalk to cry.I had never in my life gone through anything like this. I was sedated the rest of the day.next day we emptied our water bed for bathing and use the bathroom.I can survive anything now.God bless
I was 6 and we lived in Charleston, SC. I remember the sound of the wind and hearing the trees snap all over the place. I also remember being really upset that the power was out, including my nightlight. I was afraid of the dark. We lost power for two weeks. It was unbelievable even at six years old. Everything was destroyed and I mean, everything!
wow...I have always wanted to see what hugo looked like. I was born in 1987. so I was only like 2ish. my mother said I slept through it. I lived in NC. and I don't know where it hit the worst at.
This was my first and last hurricane in PR. I was 14 and I remember my mom and I trying to hold the awning down through my grandmother's broken window so the wind adn the flying aluminum signs wouldnt hit it. It was so scary...
I was 7 years old living in La Villa De Torimar (Guaynabo) when I went through this hurricane. My parents had me sleep in heir romm the night before and I really didn't understand why. Next morning I woke up to the sound of srong whistling winds, it was scary. Later that day I was watching TV with my sisters when suddendly a Huge Glass Wall in our house exploded. The wind was so loud... My sisters and I ran to our rooms but it was so hard to close the doors. The hurricane lasted all day.
I was born 20 days after that. My mom says that it was the most horrible experience she passed. The part were the person is in the building is super freaky!!!
When the guy in this video said "the pressure's too strong" what he meant by that was if you did not try to swallow saliva every 15 seconds or so, your ears would pop! You always had that popping sound when you would swallow and if you went past 15 seconds and you tried to swallow the pop in your ear drumps was extremely painful because of the pressure.
Commerical bulding all over the place could be seen with spray paint on them "You loot I shoot" "Looters will be shot on sight" The Arab supermarket owners would sit on roof tops with machine guns. One man who tried to go in & loot anyways got shot right between the eyes. At night you could hear gun fights with U.S. troops and prisoners. We lived like cavemen for 3-4 months till power & water was restored. It was nothing I will ever want to experience again.
I was in St. Croix at the time & the eye went right over the island. Most powerful event of my life. The island looked like it got a direct hit from a nuclear bomb. Not a leaf could be found on trees. All structures were severely damaged or destroyed. Americans were swimming out to coast guard ships to escape. Their homes were being taken island natives. Prisoners escaped. The police was looting. U.S. troops came in and declared martial law for almost 3 months because lawlessness was the rule.
my mom was in hugo when it hit all thw way inland in Camden, SC. It was still a Cat.3 too! they had a 120ft tree on their house. and during the hurricane, the whole house was shaking. nobody was prepared inland because they thought it wouldnt hit inland...man they were wrong!
The house shaking is something you get used to after a while. All you can do is pray that the gusts that follow don't finish the job. The whistling sound is one thing but when the gusts would come you would hear a deep angry groan. That was the scary sound.
My grandpa had a country house about 20 minutes from El Yunque. There was a large metal shed in the property, where he kept his lawn mower, some tools and stuff like that. The wind was so strong, that we found the shed some half mile away on the side of a hill. The thing did not even look like a shed; it looked more like a giant accordion. We never found the contents of the shed...
i remember hugo, i was 17 at the time. i slept through the whole storm. i live in chester sc, abot 3 hours from the coast and we still got hit by it. when i woke up the day after and went outside, i was speechless. trees were everywhere, houses were torn apart.
i have alot of family that live in charleston, on johns island. they didn't evacuate when hugo came through. hopefully they will get to safety if ike comes close to them. hopefully you will too. good luck!
Just insane. I was 12 when Hugo came through Charlotte and I remember every second. It is the reason I LOVE (and hate of course) hurricanes now. Been through 7 more on purpose now and am heading down for Hanna. She will be nothing compared to Hugo though.
the worst of it was THE NOISE !!!!THE WIND SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN AND HOWLNG AND THE SAME TIME I WAS THERE AND MY DOOR WAS SHAKKEN DO BAD THAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA FLY OFF !!!!!! WE WERE UNDER OUR BEDS ..PUT IT THAT WAY....!!!!
I was here for hugo as well. My bday is Sept 20, I was turning 5, I didnt celebrate till oct. We stayed. We lived in Summerville and had about 13 ppl in our hallway of a one story 3bed home. Waiting the storm out is prob one of the most vivid memories I have from that age (other than the snow we got that following Christmas.) And yea Hugo was most def worse than George. PS, I have a really bad feeling abt Hurriane season this year, it might not be hanna, but a bad feeling is a bad feeling.
I live in Charlotte NC and I remember when it hit here. It hit in the middle of the night and I awoke to the howling winds and trees falling in my backyard.
Yup around 20:24 when you can hear the howling is what it sounded like that night in Myrtle Beach South Carolina,as it gained strength just prior.I was in a Church,laying on a bench and the hanging lights were titled 45 degrees and they stayed angled.I said my Blessing and went to sleep.
yo me acuerdo de hugo. como estudiante lo odie porque la escuela empezo en agosto, estuvimos 2 semanas fuera por el huracan y la escuela no termino hasta junio!!!!!! y despues empezamos otra vez en agosto!!!! La suerte mia que nosotros viviamos en Guaynabo y no teniamos inundaciones como en Luquillo, Fajardo, Rio Piedras estaba bajo agua...pero la gente ahi no tenian agua para beber ni limpiarse por varias semanas. Me acuerdo mi mama cocinando latas de chef boy-ar-dee y sopas.
Everyone here saying Georges was stronger than Hugo clearly didn't experienced Hugo or was to young to remember it. Hugo literally shred the island to pieces, the devastation it left behind was unbelievable. I was 6 years old when hugo hit but i remember clearly.
Wao.q. memorias. me acuerdo como si fuera ayer,tenia 7 años en ese momento, y lo vi desde el segundo piso de casa de una vecina. Cosas q. nunca se olvidad, pero gracias a Dios q. bajo intensidad, si no, no se q. hubiera sido de nosotros. Gracias a la misericordia de Dios aun estamos aqui para contarlo a nuestros hijos. ..GOOD VIDEO.
the bigest gust is at 17:21.
25143J 2 weeks ago in playlist ipod touch playlist
Probably the best hurricane footage ever filmed..
rbutler89 2 months ago in playlist Hurricane
choros de ignorantes incultos sin educacion los animales son por lo regular los que marcan un territorio aqui todos vivimos en una sola casa que es nuestro planeta yo soy puertorriqueÑo y e aprendido mucho de mi pastor que es dominicano y no me averguenzo decir que e aprendido mucho con el y le deceo lo mejor a los americanos,mejicanos y a todo el mundo y aqui se esta hablando de un fenomeno natural que cuando pasa por algun pais no pregunta de que nacionalidad es la jente y mata personas igual
javy991 2 months ago
i remember in the national geographic video cyclone you said the rain had been drivin into the walls through the stairs coming down the stairway. wasn't the 150mph wind hitting something at the bottom of the building?
25143J 3 months ago
The gust from 17:10 to 17:21 makes the hair on my neck and arms stand up...I've been through many hurricanes, and I will never forget that sound.
FLguyGB 4 months ago
Love it.
11StormChaser 4 months ago
i remember this use to sport the shirt u know "i survived hurricane hugo"
dagnaste01 5 months ago
My moms was in this
binkyiebadd 5 months ago
I was 1 year old when this happen
fdo69 5 months ago
h-u-r-r-i-c-a-n-e h-u-g-o
aceofagony 3 months ago
I remember hurricane Hugo I was 7 when it hit south carolina. Just seeing this footage brings back memories.
blue1982flame 6 months ago
Hi everybody! I'm stayed in Guadeloupe during the great and beautiful hurricane Hugo! During the night between 16 th and 17th of September 1989 , the noise of the wind and the rain was INCREDIBLE for me! Now i seeing your video and is true , it was liked that during Huricane Hugo ! Thank you for the post and escuse me for my English!
tiraccoon75 6 months ago
i was born on september the 18th of 89 O.o
RodrigoResponds 7 months ago
despues de mi tierra mexicana PUERTO RICO ES EL PAIS EL CUAL YO QUIERO un chingo.ahh pero los puerto riqueños de la isla son diferentes a los q viven en USA. los que viven en USA. SON RACISTAS,y discriminana a los MEXICANOS SIN SIQUIERA CONOZER COMO ES REALMENTE UN MEXICANO.MEXICANO. NO UN MEXICOAMERICANO.PERO en fin saludos a toda la isla del encanto.saludos a fajardo ,a caguas,y san juan AHHH Y claro como olvidarme de EL BELLO SANTURCE.. el barrio mas bonito de san juan..!!
guerrero820 8 months ago
@guerrero820 ay papa...gracias por las cosas bonitas que dices de puerto rico. Y TIENES TODA la razon. el puertoriqueno de u.s.a es gente cafre, vulgar y naca. en puerto rico ay DE TODO...pero aca? a mi todos me dan verguenza.....
elsoda 5 months ago
@elsoda JA..!! no,denadamihermano..!! es lo siento ..saludos a toda lagente de PUERTO RICO. y es cierto verdad..?? la mayoria de puertoriquenios q estan en USA. son racistas.por jempo a nosotros no nos quieren nos dicen MOJADOS..!! no nos hablan en espaniol,.pero q importa.. yo sigo queriendoa PUERTO RICO .saludos mi hermano,desde MEXICO AVER CUANDO SE VIENE A PASEAR POR ACA.. EHHH..!!
guerrero820 3 months ago
JODERR..cuando ELhuracan HUGO pego en luquillo yo vivia en FAJARDO pero ya queria correr HAZTA SAN JUAN..!!! PUFFF. si que pego fuerte .ese huracan ...!!! despues de eso me regrese a MEXICO.. saludos a todos los puerto riqueños de la isla con cariño desde mi tierra mexicana. ahi les dejo mi email. a ver si quieren agregarme YO_SOYGUERRERO@HOT
guerrero820 8 months ago
I went through Hugo too. 17 hours I'll never forget.
stxrobstar 8 months ago
I survived Hugo and it changed my life; how I have missed the islands....
this blew me away hearing and remembering the sound of WiND.... thanks for sharing .
rmrunningphoto 8 months ago
my parents were in this.
samsamgirlXD 8 months ago
El minuto 15:40 parecía al pasillo del Titanic lleno de agua Por cierto Sonidos tenebrosos
musicita88 8 months ago
I still remember this happening, I watched through my window as debris and mini tornadoes passed through my front yard. This storm is my earliest childhood memory, I was almost 3 years old when this happened.
PhilRanma 11 months ago
I HAVE GEORGE 2 LOL
nannystarr 1 year ago
I was in St. Croix for it, went room to room as they were being taken away. Thanks for being brave and recording it as it happened.
tnknoxrealtor 1 year ago
crazy
NaturReise 1 year ago
Wow... I left PR the month before this happened I was 12 yrs old.... Then I returned to PR right before Andrew hit Florida... For some reason I always get to skip hurricanes... But this was an awesome video!!!
TamaracCVG 1 year ago
i was only 6 yrs old at the time but my parents & i didnt live in pr. but the rest of the fam did :(
bambina320 1 year ago
damn....i was born the day hurricane hugo hit..lol....=\
mandaboutdatpaper 1 year ago
The long version is better IMO.because you get the full appreciation of the event as it unfolds. The gradual increase in windspeed lets you see just how strong it gets and every second of the strongest wind is important for the full effect.. The difference in quality between the two versions is not significant enough to really matter. This vodeo rocks. It is the best footage I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it.
cape6000jkg 1 year ago
@cape6000jkg Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video... Hugo was an absolutely unbelievable experience. When I originally posted this video, YouTube allowed "director" accounts to upload clips of any length. Unfortunately, by the time I had the remastered version, they had restricted all video uploads to ten minutes or less. Thanks again for the comment!
vmax135 1 year ago
wow yo tenia 4 añitos para ese entonces fue horrble for me and my family
jimagron 1 year ago
Awesome video! i remember being at home and watching this unfold through an area of my bedroom window that was not covered.
68MissM 1 year ago
i was 2yrs old so i dont remember anything about it :(
john1987647 1 year ago
Me acuerdo de esa noche horrible y lo peor fue luego cuando estubimos sin los servicios basicos por un tiempo.
75gurabo 1 year ago
I remember very well that days...I was totally scared. My family and myself left our house in Carolina to stay at other family more secure house in Trujillo Alto. The worse thing I remember was the sound of the terrible force winds. It sound like a large scream, instead of wind. It was so creepy. Thanks for the video. I couldn't see the eyewall...your capture was great!
gloryma1 1 year ago
busquen 'alvarez gudes' 'david en puerto rico' para que se meen de la risa
abbyroyer66 1 year ago
Este video,cada vez que lo veo se me salen las lagrimas,lo que pase ese dia con mi familia teniamos mucho miedo,estabamos en bo maricao,vegaaltay es montanoso los vientos se sentian como 150 millas por hora el viento soplo 18 horas,gracias a Dios que estaba con nosotros.
eedrori 1 year ago
yo tambn soy de vega alta de la urb la esperanza y tambn vivi ese huracan tan solo tenia 7 años
robert1pr 1 year ago
@eedrori
Yo tambien me acuerdo esto paso tres anos despues d q nos mudamos d p.r. a florida. yo tenia 8anos y todavia me acuerdo q me escondi detras d la casa a llorar pq a mi puerto rico le venia este huracan. como nina al fin solo pensaba en las cosas q deje en pr cuando nos mudamos( munecas, y bisikleta) q segun yo iba a regresar por ellas. Hoy tengo 30anos y todavia me acuerdo como si fuese ayer...I love u Puerto Rico.
machida2 1 year ago
Increible video! realmente ese dia fua una pesadilla .....en mi vida nunca habia visto algo tan impresionante, yo tenia 16.
rumbatero 1 year ago
yo havia nacido ese dia
tilyg 2 years ago
wow i was 5 living in Bayamon
EldredJZombie 2 years ago
wao yo tenia 9 añitos y me acuerdo de un tipo que estaba recojiendo unas cortinas de aluminio basicamente llevandoselas y el viento soplo y salio volando el tipo ahaha wao lo tiro a pal de pies de donde estaba el y otra gente...
ozzyroman 2 years ago
i was only 1yr so i dnt remember
MsSexyrican22 2 years ago
i was so scared that day
bronxcenterfold 2 years ago
I have a year when Hurricane Hugo step
espio897 2 years ago
excelente video. Pienso que en vez de juzgar leguajes o formas de comunicacion se tuvo los pantalones en ese momento de grabar un video para exponer la catastrofe que causo este huracan... (Consejo) no se fijen en si dijo (Yellow) o Amariiiilllouuuuu, al final de el dia las personas que grabaron esto tuvieron los pantalones de estar despiertos toda la noche y en lamadrugada de este dia>>>>....
juanpr37 2 years ago 4
wow me acuerdo de eso, tenia 4 años y estaba en casa de mi abuela viendo los arboles de los vecinos caerse :(
fenixtx2 2 years ago
Im gonna cry now i'll never forget this day I call this the great storm in puerto rico of 1989 and I also call this the world recored great storm of 1989
gbscms 2 years ago
i will neva forget that day i cried soo much with my mom .. i was soooo scared...
omarcrrdenas 2 years ago 2
Pero mira que clase cojones los de este tipo. Que se cague en su madre. Dale, me voy a meter a un video de katrina a decirle a la gente que hable espanol. Mere pai...
popeye802 2 years ago 2
Please!! Use English correctly. These are two different statements. Your message should have read: "English, please!! People, please, you are USA citizens.
elquijote007 2 years ago
Yeah, indyfan22k! Are you and American citizen? Isn't that ironic? Learn to speak your native language (English? I doubt) correctly first and then you will have the standing to demand from others to speak English.
sanpan55 2 years ago
americans have no native language they speak a european language.
faszika 2 years ago
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ojodeaguila13 2 years ago
@elquijote007 que pendejo.. los que viven en la isla no son ciudadanos americanos.son PUERTORIQUEÑOS.los que viven usa. no tienen identidad porque son ciudadanos de ningun lado hijue puta.!! LOSQUE VIven en la isla SON PUERTO RIQUEÑOS y hablan como se les de la gana SO PENDEJO..!!! PORque el idioma de puerto rico es el ESPAÑOL .pero tu que eres un refugiado en USA. habla como se te de la gana hijue puta.FEQUERO,mamate un bicho,GUILLAO CABRON..!!
guerrero820 8 months ago
@guerrero820 Somos ciudadanos americanos, pq asi nos lo impusieron para llevarnos a las guerras entre otras cosas. Yo, no dejo de ser puertorriqueño por el hecho de que fuimos invadidos en el 1898, o que mi pasaporte diga otra cosa. Hay estados, hay naciones, y hay colonias en el siglo 21.
Oceanstorm80 4 months ago
@elquijote007 For you if you read this, and for those that, at least check their history and our history. Puerto Rico fue invadido por Estados Unidos en el 1898. Nuestro idioma durante los ultimos 400 años ha sido el español, y asi se quedara. Y digo los ultimos 400 años, porque antes del descubrimiento de PR por los europeos (19 de noviembre de 1493), vivian los Tainos. Aprenda de su historia, aprenda de la nuestra y de los demas paises del mundo antes de hacer tal peticion.
Oceanstorm80 4 months ago
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MrThrill77 2 years ago
I would hope not! That's my birthdate.
FringeFreak56 2 years ago 2
Ya van 20 años, un día que nunca se olvidará; 18 de septiembre 1989.
MrThrill77 2 years ago 2
I'm from Puerto Rico and half of my friends can't type/talk/speak in English lol
RDDProductionz 2 years ago 2
That doesn't matter -.- It was in Puerto Rico, Puertoricans speak spanish -,-
RDDProductionz 2 years ago 2
nos banabamos en los rios lavabamos ropa porque se nos termino el agua q teniamos almacenada los rios estaban llenos de personas
danielg8403 2 years ago
J'ai connue le cyclone Dean il y a 2 ans et j'oublirais jamais la violence du vent !!
HUBUgogol 2 years ago
yo estaba en frente de la casa de mi papa en cerro gordo , el vinto y la lluvia estaba cabron.
la pared que queda en la arena de la playa ,mide como 10 pies de alto, las olas media facil como 20 pies o mas . no pudimos salir cerro gordo 2 semanas. pero lo pasamos bien. el viento estada tan cabron que cojimos un par de cocos i los tiramos al aire , parecian balas the canones.... sorry mi espanol sucks !!! tengo mucho mas que desirle pero lo unico que te digo del hurracan hugo ,estubo cabron!!!
allyjam15 2 years ago
yo tenia 8 a~itos cuando esto ocurrio esta super aterrorisada
NOISY1981 2 years ago
yo vivia en brisas de Lares y reuni la familia que pude mi casa era segura la luz se fue y yo se que DIOS nos protegio .junto a mi hermano Quique Ramirez puse una vela en un plato sobre la capota del carro de mi esposa Elsa que estava afuera frente a mi casa los cables electricos y arboles enormes se torcieron como papel y nosotros de madrugada mirabamos la flama de la vela y ni siquiera se movia de lado .DIOS puso sus manos sobre mi casa y solo vimos lo que paso sin ningun daño.
gueloutu 2 years ago
rofl hurricanes own tornadoes so bad
Gwarismetal 2 years ago
InSANEEEEEE, holy cow. Hard to believe Mother Nature has that nasty side to her.
WeirdGirlCyndi 2 years ago
soy dominicano y he vivido varrios huracanes, como david, federico, george pero este fue un moustruo....wuao a la verdad cuanto respeto le tengo a la madre naturaleza....siempre debemos estar pendiente en el tropico cuando llega esos meses.....dios nos guarde.....
willyortiz01 2 years ago
ESE DIA NO HUBO CLASES !
astroshou 2 years ago 2
Yo todavia ni planeao estaba en ese a~o jajaja
i wasnt even planned in that year hahaha
XxGlazzerxX 2 years ago
haha igual yo...lol!!
BunniesRock55 2 years ago
I live in fajardo and I was 4 years old. I remember this like it was yesterday. Remember when the grass flew right off the ground and everything gone was gone in a few hours.
Juanscar 2 years ago
i was 6 months old when that happened :0
nahtanojonaicilef 2 years ago
A la verdad que no me imaginaba la fuerza de Hugo, yo tenia 15 a~os y de verdad que no entendi lo q fue Hugo hasta que vi este video, simplemente parapelos.
johnjohnpr32 2 years ago 2
The Animals Go Everywhere When The Weathers Like That In P.R
crazypinkeyez 2 years ago
Hello, thank you very much for this footage. I remember I was 7 years old when it happened but I was living in the northwest part of the island, so it wasnt that intense.
HectorBerlitz 2 years ago
Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean and is part of the American Continent. It's been a territory ( more like a colony) of the USA since 1898. All Puerto Ricans are American citizens by birth, though they don't vote in the Presidential elections.
ysmsites 2 years ago 7
hey vmax135 are you from purtorico or amerca?
angelsantana007 2 years ago
english GOOD THING I WASNT BORN THERE BUT UHH?
spanish BUENO QUE NO NACIE AHI PERO UHH?
hotkisspr 2 years ago
eahhh yo no habia ni nacido...no tienen del huracan georges?
padmecita 2 years ago
si tienen de el huracan George
angelsantana007 2 years ago
hola yo huelo panties amarillentos
tecato666 2 years ago
Best comment everrr!!! jajaja
fernandicopr 1 year ago
SNIFF SNIFF
tecato666 1 year ago
Great footage!
dryelf327 2 years ago
Thanks so much! I recently uploaded a much higher quality (and shorter) version here on YouTube. It's linked in both the video and the video response areas above.
vmax135 2 years ago
Ese ha sido de los pocos días en que mi familia completa, me refiero a mis abuelos, primos y tios, que estuvimos juntos en casa de mi abuela, jamas olvidare esos días. Para ese entonces tenia 7 años y lo recuerdo como ahora.
elema30 2 years ago
Recuerdo exactamente tengo 29 años hoy en dia y para ese Huracan Hugo tenia 10 años recuerdo que se fue la energia electrica habian muchas descargas electricas en el cielo y daba miedo para aquel entonces las casas su mayoria eran en madera y habia pobreza era triste ver las personas llorando mientras abandonaban sus hogares fue triste y muy tenebroso.
nitropr 2 years ago
yo recuerdo ese huracan yo tenia en ese entonces 18 anos. y recuerdo que teniamos una casita de madera y el huracan se la llevo casi toda, el techo las paredes fue muy duro para mis papas. y fema nos dio ayuda, y tambien me acuerdo que iva una van a repartir comida y ropa por las comunidades. pero gracias a Dios no nos paso nada a nosotros.
NRNY 2 years ago
I cant beleive I watched this video. I was in Fajardo at the time of HUGO locked up in the house with my family and had a 3 year old and 7 month old twins at the time. Thanks GOD we didnt suffer like some of our neighbors and we had little damage to our home. Thanks to FEMA we got the house back in order after 2 years
prdlish 2 years ago
George was bad, Hortense was too wet, marilyn was too little, BUT HUGO WAS SO NASTY nobody gonna forget this one... LO QUE HUGO SE LLEVO!! ( What HUGO BLOWs)
Emaldonadopr 2 years ago 2
What Hugo took...is a better translation..
o What Hugo blew...
joseymaru 2 years ago
really cool video.
veteranopenolano 2 years ago
Nice... if only we had HD video back in 89... still amazing.
BillyWalsh82 2 years ago
Thanks, Billy! Yeah... having an HD video camera for Hugo would have been incredible! That said, the quality of this video is much, much better than what is seen in this clip. Back when I uploaded it, YouTube had a much smaller file size restriction which forced me to highly compress the video file to meet their criteria. Since then I've actually completely re-mastered the Hugo footage and have rendered a new upscaled version in HD... so, look for a shorter, much higher quality clip soon.
vmax135 2 years ago
how did u uploaded a 28 minute video? i thought it was only 10 minutes? by the way,i hated hugo so much.though i didnt had to go to school,but my house got mess up.
veteranopenolano 2 years ago
I was in St. Croix at the time when the eye went over at Cat 5 much worse than this. The gusts peaked at 200 mph and the sound was like a freight train with a low picthed deep humming sound that would cause tremors. Those were the gusts. Hugo moved around 8 mph through the island and lasted over 9 hours before it moved away. The US Marines had to come in declaring martial law/curfew for 4 months. If it weren't for Blue Mountain in St. Croix, you would have filmed a CAT5+ Hugo[=
miamivic 2 years ago
15:04 thats what a bad hurricane sounds like. Same sounds from Ike just not that loud
elekktrode 2 years ago
Well done Mike Laca. Geat vid!! any other hurricane footage you can share?
555phantom 2 years ago
i really love hurricanes
ghostman8484 2 years ago
it looks like a man outside on 9.39
Margaretdl121 2 years ago
con toa las mierdas que pasen en puerto rico siempre ba ser el lugar mejor del mundo
BoricuaRican99 2 years ago
Pretty good video you uploaded.
xdarkkilllrx 2 years ago
One of the best eyewall videos ever, up there with Omar, Charley, and a few others
liquidstl 2 years ago
Mike, you once told me that there was one particular gust that occured when you were in the hallway that you thought may have been in the 170mph+ range. Do you know where that gust is in this film, if it is included?
CyrusNixes 2 years ago
Hi Max. The gust I was referencing is located between 17:13 and 17:29 in this clip. Jim, Andy and I are in the stairwell and there was a very sharp increase in the wind speed during those 15 seconds(when the wind noise jumps from the more constant wail, to the high-pitched screeching sound). Though it's possible higher gusts occurred at other times, this was the highest gust I can remember during the eyewall.
vmax135 2 years ago
I was in Rio Grande when it hit and it was the worst Hurricane ive been in especially when the eye wall came in you could see the sun and all the sudden .... Horror again.....great video..
cowboys1015 2 years ago
Cool I went go el ELYunque rain forest and Rio Grande Last week for spring break.
thechichas1 2 years ago
Estuve en Fajardo cuando HUGO lo mas que recuerdo eran los tornados eso era como los gritos de demonios y lo demas la mano de DIOS horrible...
ediljuan28 2 years ago
guao pareciera como si todo estuviera en camara rapida
HURACANEGEORGE 2 years ago
Excellent footage indeed. I was 10 when Hurricane Hugo happened. I remember watching it on the Weather Channel, following it from the central Atlantic, to Guadaloupe, to Puerto Rico, missing the Bahamas, and then smashing into South Carolina. This was my first major hurricane to track, and one of the most memorable. I have been fascinated by these storms ever since.
stickboy4 2 years ago
I was 5 years old when this happened I can still remember it like it was yersterday but despite the force of the storm the structural integrity of the houses made out of concrete did withstand the inmense force. Now I live in F.L. and I wonder why people here still prefer the use of gibson board & plywood when desining their homes in a hurricane friendly zone. Thanks for the video its a great documentation.
murga69 2 years ago
OMG I remember seen a catt fly by my house in the hurricane i was in PR my home
crocman2cool 3 years ago
I passed the whole Hurrcane in a building in Condado near to where you were filming It was an incredible expirence ,we survived also on the stairs of the building with my wife and two boys
Thank for recording what most people havent seen here in P.R.
centrovisual 3 years ago
yeah! hear the sound of the wind!!!! i remember that sound...i was 14 years old.
ABXPONCE 3 years ago
Eso es peor que un temblor.
rompeligas2234 3 years ago
Very impressive Hurricane Hugo, Michael; a real machine with endless strength.. These hurricanes of the 80's are never forgotten.
real0988 3 years ago
hurricane hugo was in the 90's
theonlydode 3 years ago
After Hugo of 1989, the name was eliminated. This was the last Hugo, the devastator. Greetings :)
real0988 3 years ago
I was 2 when Hugo hit Charleston a few days after this video was taken. I live in Moncks Corner which is about 30 mins away from Charleston. I dont remember alot from it but I have some very vivid memories that have been stuck in my mind since then that I will never ever forget.
tonygurl20 3 years ago
ok man...this is so cool!!You just captured the day I was born!!!!!wow!!september 18,1989,exactly I'm 19 now!! for the first time in my live I saw what happened that day!! thanks man. God bless you!!!
By the way my grandfather put me a nickname after that"Hugo" hahaha What you think about that?
elmaravilloso69 3 years ago
Fucking Shit! that acm i luv hurricanes!!!
DudeDie222 3 years ago
WOW!
imthekingoftheworld 3 years ago
HHHOLLY CRAP~!!!
AngryMelon5 3 years ago 2
yo tenia 8 años y ahora tengo 27 recuerdo como era ese huracan
tayna0102 3 years ago
este fue cuando regrese de holyoke usa a salinas p.r. y yo tenia 6 anitos lo recuerdo claritito. LOS TECHOS ZIN VOLANDOS PERROS TABALS ROPA CUANTA COSA HABIA
P3ACH3S22 3 years ago
Tenia como 7 años cuando Hugo paso por PR y recuerdo todo. Este video esta muy bueno.
yadsia0426 3 years ago
Yo estaba en la barriga de mi mama LOL
Naci 4 de meses despues en Humacao...este video me recuerda de George en 1998..ese fue malo..
SlowDownSmutty 3 years ago 2
Incredible an so real. That wind sounded like a screaming child. How horrible and scary that most have been for all those people in Puerto Rico. God help them all!!.
airsjc 3 years ago
Hi?
chinito1000 3 years ago
Yo tenia 7 anos y me acuerdo como si fuera ayer.
Angelorium007 3 years ago
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espero que Omar se intensifice con vientos de 115 y nos atraviese, jaja
1cr0w1 3 years ago
yo tenia 8 meses cuando paso Hugo o sea no me acuerdo de el pero lo pase..y ahora con la tormenta o quizas huracan Omar a ver que pasa en los proximos dias..les deseo el bien estar y seguridad a todos los boricuas a ver si pasamos de esto sin mucha destruccion y malos ratos ya que muchas familias han sufrido suficiente por las lluvias de las semanas pasadas
masracing 3 years ago 2
tenia 5 años cuando paso ese hurracan la pase durmiendo :-(
alergioloco 3 years ago
Yo estaba aki de vacaciones, me acuerdo con mis padres, y mi abuela le decia a mi madre q no adelantara el pasaje ke eso no iba a pasar por aki, y mami no le hizo caso y nos fuimos, 2 dias despues paso. Como al mes mi tio nos envio un video del huracan y se veo bn brutal y la gente robandose tv debajo del aguacero!!! No c supone q se da~e si se moja??
Ninshitsu 3 years ago
Yo tenia 2 cuando Hugo paso por Puerto Rico, lo unico que recuerdo, que me impacto muchisimo, fue como los carros que estaban estacionandos en el estacionamiento del condominio en el que vivia se viraban "patas pa'rriba"
PauPau1396 3 years ago
I was living in new york at the time and I remember calling my Mom and there was no answer. I was scared thinking that my Mothers house didn't make it, then the call went thru and my mother was ok.
carmelo1966 3 years ago
i was 11 no water light in two months (FOR HUMACAO)
kingcollazo0307 3 years ago 2
I was 15 when it hit our area, Las Piedras. I remember dad taking us out to see how the sea birds passed our house searching protection. We were with all the family and my mom's sister. The water came in trough the electric plugs in the wall. We were without water for two weeks and without light for one month. El Yunque was like elrapto says, like it was badly burned and all the houses were covered in leaves plastered to the wall.
blackkymera 3 years ago
I was 5 when this one hit us in PR. I only remember pieces of it, though, not the full devastation it caused.
gethzerion 3 years ago
A este huracan no lo midieron bien. This hurricane was stronger than the Weather Channel said.
jetcomputer 3 years ago
I lived in Isla Verde at the time. The condo next door the windows blew out and the furniture right behind it.After the whole ordeal there was no electricity,water etc.A beautiful flamboyan tree that was near Lloren torrens came down on La Baldorioty.When I saw the devastation I sat on the sidewalk to cry.I had never in my life gone through anything like this. I was sedated the rest of the day.next day we emptied our water bed for bathing and use the bathroom.I can survive anything now.God bless
AJTech47 3 years ago
The sound is what gives me the creeps. This is one hell of a video!
mulletrun69 3 years ago
I was 6 and we lived in Charleston, SC. I remember the sound of the wind and hearing the trees snap all over the place. I also remember being really upset that the power was out, including my nightlight. I was afraid of the dark. We lost power for two weeks. It was unbelievable even at six years old. Everything was destroyed and I mean, everything!
clairejcs 3 years ago
wow...I have always wanted to see what hugo looked like. I was born in 1987. so I was only like 2ish. my mother said I slept through it. I lived in NC. and I don't know where it hit the worst at.
huskylove18 3 years ago
This was my first and last hurricane in PR. I was 14 and I remember my mom and I trying to hold the awning down through my grandmother's broken window so the wind adn the flying aluminum signs wouldnt hit it. It was so scary...
boricuangel92 3 years ago
deverdad que este huracan para mi fue el mas fuerte de puerto rico yo estube i eso fue un mostro un verdadero mostro ....
mitergame47 3 years ago
I was 7 years old living in La Villa De Torimar (Guaynabo) when I went through this hurricane. My parents had me sleep in heir romm the night before and I really didn't understand why. Next morning I woke up to the sound of srong whistling winds, it was scary. Later that day I was watching TV with my sisters when suddendly a Huge Glass Wall in our house exploded. The wind was so loud... My sisters and I ran to our rooms but it was so hard to close the doors. The hurricane lasted all day.
boxings1st 3 years ago
wow! O_O! that was intense... great video.
I have scattered memories of hugo...I was 4 and living in yabucoa... palm trees moving like that are the strongest memories, hehe. weird...
iamilk 3 years ago
I was born 20 days after that. My mom says that it was the most horrible experience she passed. The part were the person is in the building is super freaky!!!
Christiansito18 3 years ago
I had 4 years and I remembear clearly... it give me the creeps! I was horrible! For me as a child...
cecilomar 3 years ago
thats one impresive video! thanks from HATILLO, PUERTO RICO
frankdd11 3 years ago
When the guy in this video said "the pressure's too strong" what he meant by that was if you did not try to swallow saliva every 15 seconds or so, your ears would pop! You always had that popping sound when you would swallow and if you went past 15 seconds and you tried to swallow the pop in your ear drumps was extremely painful because of the pressure.
miamivic 3 years ago
Commerical bulding all over the place could be seen with spray paint on them "You loot I shoot" "Looters will be shot on sight" The Arab supermarket owners would sit on roof tops with machine guns. One man who tried to go in & loot anyways got shot right between the eyes. At night you could hear gun fights with U.S. troops and prisoners. We lived like cavemen for 3-4 months till power & water was restored. It was nothing I will ever want to experience again.
miamivic 3 years ago
I was in St. Croix at the time & the eye went right over the island. Most powerful event of my life. The island looked like it got a direct hit from a nuclear bomb. Not a leaf could be found on trees. All structures were severely damaged or destroyed. Americans were swimming out to coast guard ships to escape. Their homes were being taken island natives. Prisoners escaped. The police was looting. U.S. troops came in and declared martial law for almost 3 months because lawlessness was the rule.
miamivic 3 years ago
my mom was in hugo when it hit all thw way inland in Camden, SC. It was still a Cat.3 too! they had a 120ft tree on their house. and during the hurricane, the whole house was shaking. nobody was prepared inland because they thought it wouldnt hit inland...man they were wrong!
MorningGlowMovies 3 years ago
The house shaking is something you get used to after a while. All you can do is pray that the gusts that follow don't finish the job. The whistling sound is one thing but when the gusts would come you would hear a deep angry groan. That was the scary sound.
miamivic 3 years ago
I remember hearing about Hurricane Hugo!
AprilONeil1984 3 years ago
My grandpa had a country house about 20 minutes from El Yunque. There was a large metal shed in the property, where he kept his lawn mower, some tools and stuff like that. The wind was so strong, that we found the shed some half mile away on the side of a hill. The thing did not even look like a shed; it looked more like a giant accordion. We never found the contents of the shed...
lamanogaucha 3 years ago
wow....
before georges the sky was in orange scary....
1028fusion 3 years ago
i remember hugo, i was 17 at the time. i slept through the whole storm. i live in chester sc, abot 3 hours from the coast and we still got hit by it. when i woke up the day after and went outside, i was speechless. trees were everywhere, houses were torn apart.
kellyvette 3 years ago
Me too, lived on Meadowbrook rd near the state park. I was 9 and slept through the entire thing. We had trees down everywhere.
They are looking at Ike to a Hugo if it hits Charleston (where I am now).
mandig1980 3 years ago
i have alot of family that live in charleston, on johns island. they didn't evacuate when hugo came through. hopefully they will get to safety if ike comes close to them. hopefully you will too. good luck!
kellyvette 3 years ago
Just insane. I was 12 when Hugo came through Charlotte and I remember every second. It is the reason I LOVE (and hate of course) hurricanes now. Been through 7 more on purpose now and am heading down for Hanna. She will be nothing compared to Hugo though.
onfoote 3 years ago
the worst of it was THE NOISE !!!!THE WIND SOUNDED LIKE A TRAIN AND HOWLNG AND THE SAME TIME I WAS THERE AND MY DOOR WAS SHAKKEN DO BAD THAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA FLY OFF !!!!!! WE WERE UNDER OUR BEDS ..PUT IT THAT WAY....!!!!
80s90shousemami76 3 years ago
I was here for hugo as well. My bday is Sept 20, I was turning 5, I didnt celebrate till oct. We stayed. We lived in Summerville and had about 13 ppl in our hallway of a one story 3bed home. Waiting the storm out is prob one of the most vivid memories I have from that age (other than the snow we got that following Christmas.) And yea Hugo was most def worse than George. PS, I have a really bad feeling abt Hurriane season this year, it might not be hanna, but a bad feeling is a bad feeling.
adevadancer 3 years ago
i was in summerville sc when it hit i was 2 but i remember it soo vividly..now just hopin hanna isnt as bad
stealthisalbum1 3 years ago
i do remember Hugo...and it was worse than Georges
Greyser84 3 years ago
I live in Charlotte NC and I remember when it hit here. It hit in the middle of the night and I awoke to the howling winds and trees falling in my backyard.
jonnut 3 years ago
What building of Puerto Rico was this??
ache02 3 years ago
Yup around 20:24 when you can hear the howling is what it sounded like that night in Myrtle Beach South Carolina,as it gained strength just prior.I was in a Church,laying on a bench and the hanging lights were titled 45 degrees and they stayed angled.I said my Blessing and went to sleep.
hittingrabbit 3 years ago
yo me acuerdo de hugo. como estudiante lo odie porque la escuela empezo en agosto, estuvimos 2 semanas fuera por el huracan y la escuela no termino hasta junio!!!!!! y despues empezamos otra vez en agosto!!!! La suerte mia que nosotros viviamos en Guaynabo y no teniamos inundaciones como en Luquillo, Fajardo, Rio Piedras estaba bajo agua...pero la gente ahi no tenian agua para beber ni limpiarse por varias semanas. Me acuerdo mi mama cocinando latas de chef boy-ar-dee y sopas.
bc090178 3 years ago
Everyone here saying Georges was stronger than Hugo clearly didn't experienced Hugo or was to young to remember it. Hugo literally shred the island to pieces, the devastation it left behind was unbelievable. I was 6 years old when hugo hit but i remember clearly.
Vorekdor 3 years ago
You are rigth. Hugo was worst. George bring more water but Hugo was the strongest Huracane I have ever experienced. I live in PR
ache02 3 years ago
Wao.q. memorias. me acuerdo como si fuera ayer,tenia 7 años en ese momento, y lo vi desde el segundo piso de casa de una vecina. Cosas q. nunca se olvidad, pero gracias a Dios q. bajo intensidad, si no, no se q. hubiera sido de nosotros. Gracias a la misericordia de Dios aun estamos aqui para contarlo a nuestros hijos. ..GOOD VIDEO.
lavallee2003 3 years ago