Photographing destruction: Maxie Roberts looks back on covering Hurricane Hugo in SC 

About 25 years ago I moved to Mount Pleasant I rented a Condo in Snee farms Ventura villas at the time I had two small Pomeranians and a cat I noticed they always look down the hallway for hours on end and then one day I noticed my two Pomeranians were doing tracks sitting begging Etc.. The whole time standing in front of that hallway it creeped me out so bad I finally took them back in the bedroom and shut the door then one day my elderly neighbor came over and we were talking and having some sweet tea and snacks 😋 and I told her how my dogs were acting and she told me of the person that was the first owner of the condo was an Elderly woman and her husband she said they left town when Hugo hit the Carolinas and they came back and they were really upset to see the destruction when they walked into the condo and her husband had a heart attack and died right there in that hallway I think that man was communicating with my dogs😳 whatever I love that condo I live there for seven years even after I heard that story I still stayed there I felt like he was a good soul🥹

A Hugo nowadays would be a catastrophe for the NC and SC coasts given the population growth

I will never forget Hurricane Hugo, I've lived in South Carolina all my life and I've never experienced anything like it. The worst Hurricane I've went through 😮 with my 2 young boys and husband. It was terrifying we had not long before Hugo, got a new single wide mobile home,😮 and it came through our area during the night and lasted all night and the next morning, shaking our home something awful the wind was terrifying. My husband slept through it. But I was too frittend to even try lye down. So I went to my two young boys room ,and I stayed in their room with them. Hoping they would try and go to sleep, because I didn't want them to know how scared I was and they really didn't understand at their age but they were scared too 😢 one was 5 and 1 was 1 and 1/2 years old at the time.. I finally got them to go to sleep..bless their heart ❤ and I just prayed 🙏 🙏 for God to bless us and help us and everyone to get through the storm and God answered my prayers 🙏...

After Hugo , a lot of life long residents left the Carolinas for good ! Never to return !