Remembering Hurricane Hugo's then-unprecedented devastation in North Carolina

Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 storm, caused widespread destruction in North Carolina in 1989, leaving a lasting impact on the ...
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Read "Hurricane Hugo, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Charleston, South Carolina, September 17-22, 1989" at NAP.edu

This report is based on ground surveys along the South Carolina coast from Edisto Island north to Myrtle Beach, and as far inland as Charlotte, North Carolina An aerial survey was also made over the ...
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Remembering Hurricane Hugo: 30 years later

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — September 22, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo making landfall just north of Charleston, South Carolina. The monster storm had formed over the eastern Atlantic near ...
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Hurricane Hugo by the numbers

Can you believe it's been 25 years since Hurricane Hugo? For those new to the Carolinas or too young to recall, Hugo was for Charleston, S.C., and Charlotte what Fran was for Wilmington and Raleigh, ...