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I bet I grew up in Charleston, SC, lived through Hugo, evacuated of course, and now reside in Panama.

How many times did you evacuate before Hugo? In retrospect evacuation would have been the logical move. I just don't think there was enough time to pull it off. Also, for the most part the city survived the hurricane and the storm surge; it was the faulty levee system that did them in. Who would have thought that anyone would be stupid enough to install a critical pumping system that would rely exclusively on commercial power and be subject to serious storm damage? If they had known that ahead of time they wouldn't have evacuated, they would have just moved out for good.