Sep 22
19 Years Ago Today
On this date in 1989, an unwelcome visitor named Hugo made its mark in Charleston as a Category 4 hurricane. It had been a Category 5 before weakening slightly just before landfall. 
It caused $7 billion in damage in the mainland United States, making it the costliest storm up to that point. (It is now the sixth-costliest.)
I was living in Columbia at the time, and Hugo was so powerful when it got 100 miles inland and reached Columbia that it knocked our power out for a week!
Charleston has been lucky over the last 19 years. (Excuse me while I knock on something made of wood for a moment.)
I don’t like hurricanes. Why am I living on the coast?
I’m just hoping that luck doesn’t run out any time soon.
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