Hurricane Hugo: 30 year anniversary of the storm all others are compared to

Thirty years ago this fall, Hurricane Hugo set its sights on the Carolinas. After devastating the South Carolina coast, it kept its strength all the way to the Charlotte area, leaving catastrophic damage in its path. #HurricaneHugo #Hugo #HurricaneSeason
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[@LegacyXJudah]

I remember it well. The eye passed near where I live around an hour and a half away from Charlotte in the Sc/NC border. The trees were bending and touching the ground.

[@AnnaD25]

Never forget the sound of my brick patio wall collapsing, and wind whistling.. South Charlotte looked like a war zone😳

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

I loved Hugo. It was EXCITING !

[@stephengering1986]

The name Humberto was the name that replaced Hugo back in 1989. Whenever all the names from the 1989 season was used again for the 1995 season the name Hugo was replaced with that name. but if it never was retired the name Hugo would have been represented even in 2019 because the names for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season where the exact name that starting in 1983. Used again in 1989,1995,2001,2007,2013,and for the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. So if the name Hugo was not retired in 1989 it would have been used for all those years that it had and every year including this year

[@reglook1]

We went to a Birthday Dinner Party at a Country club off Pineville Matthew rd. Many people came because of the live band. When the storm got bad a few people left. We watched a SC, TV station that was reporting this thing was headed our way quickly, We drank more Champagne and laughed it off, and you could hear trees cracking down. A few more people left that had a short drive. The rest of us were 10 and 15 miles from home. I t can't get worse!, the men told thire crying wives. Then boom! In the distance. We made the best of it and pulled couches in the ball room and had a Hurricane party. We had no concept of how bad it got until morning. Oddly we never lost power. Back then the area was mostly forests, Pineville Matthew rd was only 2 lanes! Forget about going home, the roads were not passable till 3 :oo that day, even then you drove around huge amounts of debris.

[@tinynuggins1029]

I remember I was 4 when we had to evacuate for Hugo. I was so young I didn't really know what a hurricane was and for some reason I thought "Hurricane Hugo" was the name of the weather man.(who I later found out was actually Willard Scott. Lol) My be guess is that Willard Scott was on TV reporting about hurricane hugo and i heard him say that and believed that was his name. I remember not being able to understand why we had to leave just because the weather man was coming to town. Everyone kept on telling me it was dangerous and that if we stayed our lives would be in danger. I was so confused as to why this mean man Hurricane Hugo (Willard Scott) was coming to out town and why he had such destructive plans for us. Lmao. It was about halfway into the road trip leaving town that I finally was able to wrap my 4 year old brain around what a hurricane actually was.(after about 3 hours of asking my mom to explain again and again) Honestly I think I would have understood sooner had my mom realized that I thought Hurricane Hugo was a guy and not a weather phenomenon. Lol. Unfortunately even after all that I still didn't fully understand as I then thought that there were 2 hurricane Hugo's. The storm, and the man. I figured perhaps he took that name because he was a weatherman or something. I don't know how long it was before I finally realized that Willard Scott's name wasn't Hurricane Hugo. Knowing me it was probably a while. Lol.
P.s. I guess this whole name thing was an ongoing problem for me as a kid because for years I thought the Pledge of Allegiance referred to someone named "Witchet Stands" not for which it stands. Thinking back I'm really lucky I didn't stick a fork in a socket or something as slow as I was as a kid. Lmao

[@philipdeutsch9716]

Hey! The storm was gigantic! God bless all the refugees.

[@markquiswest6607]

It reminds me of Hurricane Andrew!

[@MomentsNature-w8o]

the storm was terrible, wasn't it?

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

I remember when the board hit me in the head, thanks Mom.

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

I was baby at time

[@drone_boss]

Global Warming is accelerating remember? Ian?!?!