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This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
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Sep 8, 2023, 10:49 AM
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memories of a storm named Hugo. September 21, 1989, a date which will live in infamy for any who were around these parts back then. Hope I am wrong, and this thing stays out to sea and dies.
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
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Sep 8, 2023, 10:55 AM
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This a bad one. Hope it stays off the coast.
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Legend [6727]
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
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Sep 8, 2023, 10:58 AM
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I was a freshman at Clemson when Hugo hit. Tough few months for our state. Praying this one finds a very different path.
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Associate AD [1053]
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
Sep 8, 2023, 11:04 PM
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I was also freshman living in Johnstone
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CU Medallion [19322]
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I have never been through any storm like Hugo,
Sep 8, 2023, 11:06 AM
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90-100 mph winds in Rock Hill! By all indications, up to now, this one (Lee) is suppose to take a right hand turn toward Bermuda!
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Hall of Famer [8498]
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
Sep 8, 2023, 11:37 AM
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This one won't come close to SC. It's going way north.
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Head Coach [945]
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
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Sep 8, 2023, 11:58 AM
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Whether it hits or not it will be the most apocalyptic hurricane since Idalia (If you listen to any news media)
But like our wide receivers this one is going to make a wrong turn.
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Athletic Dir [1182]
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Re: This Hurricane Lee is beginning to stir up some vague
Sep 8, 2023, 1:46 PM
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Oh, I laughed and feel guilty about it.
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I lived in Georgetown when Hugo hit.
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Sep 8, 2023, 11:40 AM
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I took 31 days of cold showers. It took me 4 days to clear a path so my wife could return home for a visit. We ate good for about 4 days when we cleaned out our freezer. People were price gouging, $5 for a 10 bag of ice. Luckily I friends with a guy that owned a fishing boat and he gave me ice off the boat. Bad days indeed.
GO TIGERS BEAT THE REST!
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Still projected to miss the USA entirely as of right now
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Sep 8, 2023, 11:49 AM
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Hopefully that stays the case
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No pine tree survived Hugo between Charleston and Charlotte.***
Sep 8, 2023, 12:52 PM
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Re: No pine tree survived Hugo between Charleston and Charlotte.***
Sep 8, 2023, 12:56 PM
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I hope not! I was a senior at the Citadel when Hugo hit. Awful!
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You could still tell 25 years after the fact that Hiway 15
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Sep 8, 2023, 1:03 PM
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between I-26 and Holly Hill was a snapped off pile of Pick-Up-Stix. One of my brothers-in-law had a contract with the state that ran for over eight years after Hugo hauling downed trees out of the woods to try and reduce the forest fire risks.
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I remember as a child...
Sep 8, 2023, 12:59 PM
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When they said that Hugo was headed to the Upstate (SC)..
I remembered being scared out of my mind!!!
That was before I learned the Hurricanes/tropical storms lose a lot of their punch once they make landfall......
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Heisman Winner [87020]
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Hugo still had plenty of punch at least 60 miles inland.
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Sep 8, 2023, 1:26 PM
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We lost an entire pecan orchard of ~twelve BIG trees that was 61 years old to Hugo. My dad said he had planted those trees with HIS dad when he was ten, and he was 71 when Hugo hit. It blew every one of them out of the ground by the roots like it was nothing. The seemingly endless rains that came for a couple days BEFORE the winds hit softened the ground and made it easy for the wind to do its damage.
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Re: Hugo still had plenty of punch at least 60 miles inland.
Sep 8, 2023, 1:35 PM
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Friend packed up from West Ashley and went to Charlotte, Hotel roof landed on both his cars while there, got back home to lost power, that’s about it.
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I got off work at midnite, and drove home in 70 mph winds
Sep 8, 2023, 6:58 PM
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in Orangeburg. I was lucky to make it home before some big trees went down in the roads. The next morning, several streets in town were impassable, and power was out for awhile due to downed trees.
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Re: Hugo still had plenty of punch at least 60 miles inland.
Sep 8, 2023, 11:26 PM
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Way more than 60 miles inland with Hugo. There was significant damage as far north as Statesville, NC! That's over 200 miles inland!
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Re: I remember as a child...
Sep 8, 2023, 1:40 PM
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Wasn’t alive at the time but my parents home was demolished by Tornados spun up from Hugo all the way in Florence
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Hugo was a Cat 5 when it smashed Puerto Rico
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Sep 8, 2023, 1:57 PM
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It lost some of its strength over Puerto Rico, but rapidly Re-intensified in its last 24 hours back to a Cat 5.
The most fascinating thing I learned? The highest water floods in with the lowest pressure- the eye. But that high water was laser-flat. The water ring in my garage was 36” high-precisely. My in-laws lived on the harbor and they had 8’ of water- precisely. They had an upright piano in one corner of their living room overlooking the water. My MIL loved playing hymns on it and had a large music book she played from, open. That piano floated about 40’ down a long hallway to the front of the house; yet the music book and the candelabra on top of the piano never moved. There were no waves in the highest water. Completely flat.
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Re: Hugo was a Cat 5 when it smashed Puerto Rico
Sep 8, 2023, 2:18 PM
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Hugo was a cat 4 at landfall.
Yes, surge is flat. Fill a bathtub...the surface is flat.
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This thing is fluctuating between a Cat 4 and Cat 5 right
Sep 8, 2023, 6:54 PM
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now, sustained 150 mph winds, down from 157, which is the Cat 5 minimum. Hugo hit with 131 mph at landfall. I don't car how "hurricane proof" your roof is supposed to be, sustained 150 mph winds would most likely take it away. Only saving grace is that winds usually diminish slightly as a hurricane nears land.
Pray for the people in the islands now in the direct path of this monster.
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Hall of Famer [8498]
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Re: This thing is fluctuating between a Cat 4 and Cat 5 right
Sep 8, 2023, 11:18 PM
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Thankfully, nobody is in the direct path.
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As of now the outlook looks good
Sep 9, 2023, 1:20 AM
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And it should stay off our coast. I'll be praying this thing stays far away from making any landfall.
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I lived in mt pleasant then
Sep 9, 2023, 1:30 AM
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Incredible storm and damage. I left town beforehand but was stupid and came back the day after, No power, no water, no food, no gas. I lived off the Red Cross for two days before I had some friends in Moncks corner come get me and I lived with the country folks for a week or 10 days (can’t remember exactly). Cooked all the food they had in freezers, and that’s what we lived off. Took fully 2 years to get back to normal.
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