In 1959 our family survived “Gracie” while my Father was at Shaw Field. It almost destroyed the mobile home in which we were living. We had to flee the home in the worst of the winds and go to Shaw for shelter. In October we transferred to Japan to Yokota AFB and were living in the “paddies” when a Super typhoon hit the area, destroying our house and again we had to flee in the midst of the storm to the base for cover. I have empathy for those that are going to endure the hurricanes each season. I was only seven years old when I went through those two and have endured many others but those two's memory is entrenched.
The name of the SC hurricane was Gracie but I had remembered it as Gloria.