Life

19 Years Ago Today

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Last Updated on August 27, 2017

On this date in 1989, an unwelcome visitor named Hugo made its mark in Charleston as a Category 4 hurricane.&nbsp  It had been a Category 5 before weakening slightly just before landfall.&nbsp  It caused $7 billion in damage in the mainland United States, making it the costliest storm up to that point.&nbsp  (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.&nbsp  (Excuse me while I knock on something made of wood for a moment.)

I don’t like hurricanes.&nbsp  Why am I living on the coast?

I’m just hoping that luck doesn’t run out any time soon.

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