Nearly twice as many people — and more than twice as many homes — would be in danger if Hurricane Hugo hit today. In the 30 years since the deadly storm slammed into South Carolina, the population of ...

Twelve days after a tropical depression formed in the Atlantic off of the coast of West Africa, south of the Cape Verde Islands, what grew to be Hurricane Hugo plowed through the Carolinas, changing ...

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 ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Today marks 36 years since Hurricane Hugo blasted the Carolinas. Hugo was one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history, and at the time the most costly ...

Homes were dark, businesses shut down, and Charlotte was ground to a halt as the storm devastated the Carolinas. Duke Energy’s Robert Combs remembers vividly how he couldn’t even make it to the city ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The only Category 4 hurricane to make landfall on the mainland U.S. in the 1980s did so just north of Charleston over Sullivan’s Island 36 years ago. When Hurricane Hugo made ...

Hugo’s storm surge swept this Surfside Beach home from its oceanfront lot into the middle of the Ocean Boulevard. The random cruelty of Hurricane Hugo was evident as some oceanfront homes were ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Every storm has a story, and many more have yet to be written. From each hurricane’s beginning, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, to their dramatic end on our ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Before Hurricane Hugo made its landfall in Charleston County in 1989, the biggest “direct hit” most people would have remembered was Hurricane Gracie 30 years earlier. Gracie ...