My subdivision in SC has buried lines. It was built after Hugo. Most of the ones in the new ones are buried. They have just not changed the old ones. We had people come here to the midlands from the coast. They got hit worse than they would have at the coast. Hugo was a monster that left a major path of distruction from the beaches to the mountains. That is what scared me about Rita. People who were running away from the storm were going to end up in the middle of it.
I was here for Hugo (Summerville). One thing Daddy always said is that you don't run north and west you run south and west to avoid the hurricanes.
Hurricanes are nothing new to me, having spent the majority of my life on the coast but Hugo scared me. But what scared me the most was the civil defense alert saying this is not a drill...