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Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
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All-TigerNet [11839]
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Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 6, 2016, 3:22 PM
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heed the warnings ahead of this Hurricane, and take it seriously!! God Bless all those in it's path!!!
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Orange Blooded [3855]
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Scariest night of my life in Georgetown.
Oct 6, 2016, 3:26 PM
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Cat3 or higher I'm out of here.
Cat2 riding it out
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Re: Scariest night of my life in Georgetown.
Oct 6, 2016, 3:42 PM
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I was in Georgetown for Hugo, too. Somehow managed to sleep right through it. Woke up the next day to the horrific aftermath, which taught me to never, ever underestimate the impact of a hurricane.
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You was drunk.***
Oct 6, 2016, 4:31 PM
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be safe, everyone.***
Oct 6, 2016, 3:51 PM
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 6, 2016, 3:53 PM
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I just left the beach house in Garden City.
I battened down the hatches and pray for the best.
We had a complete loss of the old house in this exact spot from Hugo.
Well I guess this house is not new anymore built in 1990.
My Dad bought the beach front lot in 1958 for 7500 dollars.
I wish he had bought about 20 lots.
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Orange Blooded [3788]
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I kind of remember Fran in '96
Oct 6, 2016, 3:55 PM
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and I remember Floyd barely missing us in '99 and hitting eastern NC really hard.
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Orange Blooded [2638]
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We drove down to Manning from G'ville the week after Hugo
Oct 6, 2016, 4:25 PM
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to help clean up. I think every pine tree 30 past Columbia was hacked off about 20 ft up. Unbelievable.
Please take this seriously folks. Be safe.
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All-In [25032]
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seeing projections that it could loop back and hit florida
Oct 6, 2016, 4:27 PM
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twice. That would be unprecedented.
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Re: seeing projections that it could loop back and hit florida
Oct 6, 2016, 4:44 PM
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If Matthew loops back it would be like Hazel did in 1954 to S.C. Everybody needs to pay close attention to this storm!
Hugo was bad enough in 1989 and those of us who experienced it understand the warnings. If you live on the coast move inland ASAP!!
God bless and Go Tigers!
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Was living in Mt. Pleasant and headed to my roommates . . .
Oct 6, 2016, 5:28 PM
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parents house in Summerville to "escape", NOT!!! One wicked storm and crazy night!
I rode back over Cooper River bridge at 5a.m. the next morning to check on my store and there wasn't a squirrel, bird, frog or person anywhere to be found, really freaky!!
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 6, 2016, 7:19 PM
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It went just north of us. I went with a clran up crew the following weekend to the Charleston area. Most devastating thing I've ever seen.
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 6, 2016, 7:22 PM
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*clean up crew
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We went without power for 2 weeks after Hugo in Rock Hill***
Oct 6, 2016, 9:33 PM
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Re: We went without power for 2 weeks after Hugo in Rock Hill***
Oct 7, 2016, 8:00 AM
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I was in Junior High (Castle Heights, and was without power for two weeks as well. I had to walk up the street to my friends house to get hot water and take a shower. Really sucked!!
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 6, 2016, 9:34 PM
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I was the detachment commander of the NG unit(D1A 505th Engineer Bn) in Taylorsville, NC. It`s a small, rural town in the northwestern NC foothills and Hugo strolled thru here with 85mph+ winds. Trashed the place pretty good, most people here were without power for 2-4 weeks. We cleared a few roads of trees, then the state decided people around here could fend for themselves so they sent us to Charlotte. At least we ate good there(the locals would feed us as we came thru their neighborhoods) and all the topless joints offered free admission and cheap beer on a military ID, lol
A good friend of mine, Clemson grad too, rode it out in a school gymnasium in Moncks Corner with his SCARNG unit. The roof started to lift and set down about midnight. At 1 am the emergency services director came to him and said "Moncks Corner is yours". It was 2 weeks before he got to go begin to get his own home straightened out, and that was only for 2 days then back to duty.
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Made landfall on my birthday...
Oct 6, 2016, 9:41 PM
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Was in the upstate as a Clemson student and seriously worried about my In-laws in Moncks Corner. Took us quite a while to find 'em buried in the mess Hugo brought. All safe and sound! Will arrive in the midlands tomorrow to avoid the worries...
GO TIGERS!!!
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Orange Blooded [4821]
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I was living in Mt Pleasant
Oct 6, 2016, 11:47 PM
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fled to Clemson for the night, and made the mistake of going back the next day. Total destruction. The place was barely recognizable. The people I came across in my apt complex looked like zombies, most said they would NEVER stay again.
All power out, no gasoline, so I was stuck there. Ate red cross meals for two days before some friends in St Stephen cut their way out of the woods and came to get me. People everywhere in town came together, it was the only nice part of a really terrible time.
Massive mile long burn pile in the median of the mark clark burned downed trees for about 6 months. You really got tired of seeing stuff that was torn up.
Major hurricanes really suck; may God be with all those in harms way!
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Last person on Kiawah Island the day it hit. Beautiful day
Oct 6, 2016, 11:56 PM
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until it started to rain around 6PM from the landward side. That's when I realized just how big Hugo was...
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You weren't the guy that said they were outside hitting
Oct 7, 2016, 8:59 AM
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golf balls into the wind, until it got to be a 9 club wind, and then finally went inside, were you?
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All-In [28802]
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Didn't Hugo actually directly hit Charleston, though?
Oct 7, 2016, 12:07 AM
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Sounds like this one won't hit land in SC
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Re: Didn't Hugo actually directly hit Charleston, though?
Oct 7, 2016, 9:40 AM
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Not to downplay this storm, but you are correct @camcgee. Hugo made a direct landfall just north of Charleston as a category 4 storm and it was devastating. This storm is not forecasted to make landfall and should skirt the coastline as a category 1 storm. The largest concern for SC at this time is the expected rainfall totals that are predicted. It's being compared to last year's thousand year flood.
I'm staying in Charleston but have certainly made some important preparations since the town has all but shut down. Just hoping the power stays on.
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 7, 2016, 12:15 AM
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I'm very scared of this hurricane. I can remember in '89 when Hugo hit, we hid our kids under mattresses. One of them suffocated, but this isn't the place for sad stories. I hope everyone makes it through this unscathed.
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Suffocated? As in died?
Oct 7, 2016, 7:50 AM
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Nm
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Heck, I remember Hazel. Good post - folks
Oct 7, 2016, 12:55 AM
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should never gamble with Mother Nature.
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Re: Heck, I remember Hazel. Good post - folks
Oct 7, 2016, 8:44 AM
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Hazel was the year I was born. I do remember Gracie, in 1959(?), it downed a huge pine tree right onto a '50 Ford that was parked next to our house. Squashed it down to about a foot high right through the middle of it. Being only 5 years old, I thought the high winds were cool to play in, until my Mom told me she was going to massage my backside with a belt if I didn't get inside!
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I'm Old Enough
Oct 7, 2016, 7:41 AM
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to have remember my experience in Betsy and Camille.
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I was in Clemson when Hugo came through.
Oct 7, 2016, 8:00 AM
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I remember all the rain despite being drunk that night from a mixer that night. I remember running from Sloan Street to Tiger Town and getting soaking wet.
Stay safe, everyone!
And, Go Tigers!
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For 15 years after, you could still see evidence of Hugo in
Oct 7, 2016, 8:33 AM
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the snapped off pine forest on Highway 15 between I-26 and Holly Hill.
Also, my Dad was 71 at the time, and he remembered a pecan orchard that he and his dad had planted when he was 10, on our place. Yep, Hugo did away with every single one of those 61 year old trees. It was a sad time in SC.
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Saw the same on 78 and 61... Like a bad crewcut with dull
Oct 7, 2016, 8:37 AM
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scissors.
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My brother in law was one of many who had contracts with the
Oct 7, 2016, 8:40 AM
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state to log out the downed trees to cut down on the fire hazards going forward. That contract lasted for 8 years until it was all done.
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Re: Hope all of you, old enough to remember Hugo,
Oct 7, 2016, 8:52 AM
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I was a junior in high school. I remember coming home that Thursday after our walk through still thinking we would play football the next day. Little did I know the disaster that would follow. I remember cleaning up in the yard and people riding by with bags of ice in the back of the truck passing them out to people in my community. We went 2 plus weeks without electricity.
We were not good at that point in the year. After the storm we used the two weeks plus off to practice. That was actually a welcome distraction for a couple hours just about everyday. A second "fall" camp helped turn us into a pretty decent football team. We ended up winning our region.
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Does anyone else remember seeing these weird white
Oct 7, 2016, 8:57 AM
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spotted mosquitoes that got blown into this area (Providence / Holly Hill SC) after Hugo? I had never seen that variety before, and there are none of them around now, either.
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