Photographing destruction: Maxie Roberts looks back on covering Hurricane Hugo in SC
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2019
- Maxie Roberts was a photojournalist with The State when Hurricane Hugo slammed into the coast near Charleston, S.C., in 1989. Look back on his old photos as he recalls what it was like to cover "the worst storm to ever hit the Carolina coast."
Video by Ashley Jean Reese/The Island Packet and The State
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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 🙏...
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🥹
After Hugo , a lot of life long residents left the Carolinas for good ! Never to return !
A Hugo nowadays would be a catastrophe for the NC and SC coasts given the population growth
Yea man u said it hurricane Hugo to this day is the most intense and worst hurricane to ever hit the Carolinas as well as the East coast north of Florida Hugo had winds of 140 mph when it struck South Carolina as category 4 hurricane but Hugo would easily be dethroned if South Carolina got hit by a category 5 hurricane like the infamous Hurricane Andrew back in 1992 which hit south Florida with 165 mph winds with gusts of 190 mph and as of the present here and now its 2024 and Meteorologist are forecasting a super active Atlantic hurricane season because of record warm sea surface temperatures across the Atlantic the dreaded idea of a gigantic size hurricane of category 5 strength hitting South Carolina may become a reality is flat out terrifying cause I know Charleston South Carolina is alot more populated and more developed in 2024 vs back in 1989 so the death toll and destruction to property would be far worse plus a much stronger hurricane than Hugo hitting the same area would make that hurricane the new benchmark for the worst hurricanes to ever hit the east coast only thing we can do is pray that the east coast is spared this hurricane season from another disastrous hurricane like Hugo or stronger nevertheless we should be prepared regardless have your hurricane kit flashlights, water, medicine, non perishable foods, cash in your pocket, hard wood for boarding up your home etc.