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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hurricane Hugo made landfall north of Charleston Harbor on the South Carolina coast the night of Sept. 21, 1989, affecting an estimated 1.8 million people. Presidential declarations were issued for 24 ...

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 ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1995. Summary Sculpture shows the local landscape before and after the onslaught of Hurricane Hugo. Damage depicted includes uprooted trees fallen on ...