It’s the 20th anniversary of the worst natural disaster in modern times in South Carolina.

    Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 storm, smashed ashore at Charleston with its 135 mph winds 20 years ago on September 21st, 1989.

    I was a freshman at the University of South Carolina.  I had been there for about three and a half weeks.  Coming from the Southern Tier of New York state, I had no idead what a hurricane even was.  All I knew was that it was windy that night and classes were cancelled for three days.
    I didn’t realize the destruction or the effects caused by this storm until a professor of mine came back with pictures from Charleston showing the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.  One off my friends from Isle of Palms had to quit school to go help his family rebuild.  I never saw him again.

    The memories are still very clear.  How about you?

    I’d like to hear where you were when Hugo blew through town.