OT: Hugo hit 35 years ago…Sept 22

[CWW]

I will never forget that day and the destruction it caused.

 

[bayrooster]

I was a student at USC then, thanks for reminding me it was 35 years ago.

 

[rockingamecock]

It made $7,000 in improvements to our house.....lol

 

[Myrtlecock]

Left Conway that morning to take my grandmother to Stone mountain Georgia for my cousin's wedding. I-20 between Florence and Columbia was a scene from a post-apocalyptic fantasy movie. Giant trees were scattered like toothpicks on the kitchen floor in the area where the eyewall crossed on its way to North Carolina. I drove my Ford Taurus over around and through the median and shoulders of the highway to get through. I was out of gas and decided to park in Columbia to figure out what to do because the stations had no power. Rounded a building to find a convenience store with power and gas. Waited in line to fill up and made it to my aunt's before dark.