Hurricane Hugo Anniversary
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Emmett_Brown
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Re: Hurricane Hugo Anniversary
I saw damage pictures from someone who rode it out in Culebra harbor. Horrible. Yachts thrown up the hillsides. People from the Virgins had taken their boats/homes to the harbor cause they thought it was the best hurricane hole, but i believe the eye went directly over them.
Hugo was the first storm that made me aware of the incredible power of storm surge.
Hugo was the first storm that made me aware of the incredible power of storm surge.
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CrazyC83
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Emmett_Brown wrote:The affects of this one were felt well inland also... Charlotte NC had strong TS to near Cat1 conditions.
They were well into Cat 1 in Charlotte (I think gusts reached up around 100 mph).
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Re: Hurricane Hugo Anniversary
I went thru Hugo 30 miles (10 miles in-land) north of Charleston. Basically in middle of landfall on the edge of the national forest. I saw the eye, it was the worst experience in my life. To hear the back wall coming ,getting louder. The back wall was worse, maybe due to going thru the front wall. The tall pine woods 100 yds away probably prevented the house from being wiped out. No bath for six weeks. It may have been LF in the forest but it wrecked things all the way to MB. It laid waste to the forest. You drove over downed power lines for many weeks. I have been on the battle field, that is what it look like, Total Wiped Out. My parents lived in Georgetown county(50 miles away), they did not get the power back on for eight weeks. The main thing I remember was the roaring of probable tornados over the wind. The trees don't just bend but wipe up and down( probable due to cycle of wind from ~120 to 180 mph gusts). Don't think SC was lucky with LF in forest. It impacted a lot of people 200 miles in-land, many poor with no physical or financial means to handle a Cat 4/5 storm. The storm went thru the poorest counties in SC. Many who evacuated drove in the path of storm. For any who want to experience a high end Cat 4, think about it and please change your mind. After these all years that are still scars in the forest and in everyone who rode it out. The power was restored in urban areas first and and worked on out to rural areas, so the poor in Williamsburg county, etc suffered the longest. It was something, I would not wish on my worst enemy.
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