I have so many vivid memories from that night and day after; weeks after. I was in the Navy and three weeks away from transferring to Kings Bay, GA. Hugo made for a very sad parting as we had to leave that beautiful city we all love and move out while power was still out, no freshwater, no A/C. It was a scary time. I used to find the weather interesting; I still do. However, Hugo traumatized me like no other experience. I still get antsy whenever storm clouds are on the horizon, something that never happened before Hugo. I could go on and on with Hugo-experiences. I remember how quiet it was when we were in the eye (Dorchester Rd, North Charleston), looking up and seeing stars after that terrible beating we had just endured. Then the wind slowly increasing, blowing from the other way, and getting back into the house hoping the backside was no worse than the front. I'll leave it at that. Obviously, Hugo left a huge impression on me, and not in a good way. I never want to live through another one. And maybe worse of all was leaving Charleston, a city that this Yankee grew to so love. Having to say goodbye to her in that condition; never getting to say a proper goodbye. I better stop; I could go on and on.
John, I was 4 years old and living in Orangeburg, SC when Hugo came through. I slept through the storm but Mom said it sounded like the roof was being sucked off. I still remember waking up to all of the damage across town and no power for days.
@@tracya.6217 I remember running from Charleston to Orangeburg to escape another hurricane. David maybe? What I do remember is having to change a headlight in my car in Orangeburg. It's strange the things we remember.
@@bubblehead78 I don't remember any apart from Hugo. We ended up moving to Titusville, FL and got hit by the 2004 storms. I agree on the things we remember. Songs and videos will do that to you!
I stayed in Northern Beaufort during Hugo. I was 16 that storm traumatized me forever. I have never stayed for any hurricanes and still get physically ill during severe storms.
I can't imagine being near the coast that night. I live in upstate SC and it was bad even here. It sounded like a freight train all night long. The scariest night of my life.
I was 10 years old. My brother and I had to sleep in my parents bedroom floor. My parents didn’t go to sleep. The winds were making our brick house make popping sounds. It was scary.
My mother lived through this, off the naval base that is gone, with 2 kids under the age of 5 (I was not born yet) Her compensation was a T-shirt that said HURRICANE HUGO SURVIVOR. Did anyone else get that shirt?
I was out and about that evening until about 10 when I stop and set it out near Hampton Park at my home. Watching the power flashes and every now and then going out in the wind. I also was watching WCBD on TV until the power went out. Then there was the eye of Hugo, just so quit and calm. 30 years ago wow, I was a bit crazy back then and still a bit crazy. I always have a thing for severe weather my late wife always drove her crazy when I went out storm chasing reather hurricanes or tornadoes. 30 years ago.. WOW Charleston as always a wonderful city, many of us here that went through Hugo can tell you a story from the weeks without power to the roars of the wind and even the eye of the storm. Thanks WCBD for putting this show on RU-vid so I can watch again.
It has been 30 years since Hugo hit South Carolina when the name Hugo was first presented was back in 1983 whenever in 1979 they started using names both male and female and a six-year rotation for named storms but if a name was destructive like loss of life or property damage . Then the name would be retired and never used again and the name Humberto was The name that we placed Hugo whenever the names were Rotated in 1995. It was present it was replaced with that name but if you go then it hit South Carolina then the name Hugo would have been actually use for this year's hurricane names because if you think about it every 6 years they use the Recycled names that wasn't retired.
Former WCBD anchor/reporter Terry Casey is still around, but now living in Jacksonville, FLA. He went on to anchor WJKS (WCWJ) First Coast News from 1993-1996. Terry is retired now, but enjoying broadcasting by doing voice-over works.
We thought we were going to be fine after evacuating 60 miles west from Charleston, we stayed at a relative's house. Big mistake, around 1 to 1:30 am the winds came howling into the small town we were in and they just got stronger and stronger as time passed, had to be way over one hundred miles per hour, When the eye finally came over and things became silent I looked outside with a flashlight and saw utility poles, trees and power lines covering the road and this was from the front side of the wall, we still had the back side coming up! Finally just before day break the winds died down and we looked outside and were speechless, there were four large pecan trees that were in the backyard, they just disappeared, we had no clue what happened to them. That house shook until we thought the roof was going to be ripped off but it held, we were so lucky. My dad at the time worked for what was known back then as United Telephone Company of the Carolinas, known today as Century Link. He worked from 6am to 11pm seven days a week for months until they caught up. They had to bring in extra crews from all over the US to help them, there were some spots they couldn't even get to until the tree companies came in and cleared it all out. Lake Marion was hit very hard because the wind had nothing to slow it down on that water and it destroyed neighborhood after neighborhood. My dad said it took the tree company over a week just to access the roads there. My relatives had no power for six weeks and we were stuck there due to all the debris, I couldn't call my boss from work, but he knew where we were and we all covered each other. I remember the National Guard showing up with some water buffalos so people had water to drink and use, that was nice. All the utility crews were treated like heroes when they showed up and people were feeding them and supplying water, sodas and gatorade. One of my favorite places as a kid was Rocks Pond Campground on Lake Marion, so many great memories there but Hugo practically destroyed it, I think they lost like 95% of the trees there, it was rebuilt but it was nothing like it used to be and even today it still isn't. Fast forward to 2011 and I was in the military of all places, Japan when the Tsunami hit so I've been through my share of disasters even a volcano eruption in the Philippines Mt. Pinatubo in 199, we were sent in and had to evacuate Clark Air Base.
The name Humberto was the name that replace hugo in 1989. If hugo never hit south Carolina then the name hugo would have been never replaced with Humberto name in 1995
Taylor Murray is now the main co anchor of the 6, 7, and 11pm newscast on WSPA News Channel 7. Olivia Parsons is the morning co anchor at the same station as Taylor Murray.
It hit WV and VA.hard. three trees in our driveway, and when I got to work at a golf course it took lots of tops out of the trees. We worked for about a year or more off and on cutting the tops out that broke off.
Personally, I don't think there was the slightest hurricane that was category 5. But for Hugo, I would say that we were not far from it or that we were close to it.
