You got that right. I was in Augusta GA during the storm, and we had some wind from Hugo even there.
I drove up I-95 through SC a week after Hugo, at night, which was an eerie experience - all the road signs and exit signs were blown down from just above Walterboro north, the power was still out in most of that area, but where the power was back on, the spotlights which were supposed to illuminate billboards were just shining up into the night.
Above Santee, trees had blown down into the road, and the road crews had cut them off at the edge of the emergency lane and dragged the pieces off the pavement, but my headlights still illuminated them right at the edge of the pavement. There were also a number of rough places in the pavement where the limbs had knocked holes into it.