[RipSawyer]

"Does anyone in the Southeast remember Hurricane Hugo."

Steve, I live 70 miles inland in SC and I sat up most of the night, during the worst of it I kept hearing huge trees crashing, one relatively small tree broke about ten 10 feet off the ground and the top fell on my house roof but didn't do any real damage. My first wife is now deceased but she slept through the whole thing somehow, she was raised in Oklahoma and had no concept of what a hurricane meant. The next morning she went outside and looked around and nearly went into shock. I had tried to prepare her but it all meant nothing until she actually saw it, one yellow Poplar tree 30 inches at the base and over 100 feet tall had blown down and fallen away from the house, if it had fallen the other way it would have crushed most of the house. There were incredible numbers of other trees on the ground and many broken off halfway up, large limbs everywhere. I am very thankful that I was not in the Mclellanville area, some folks there spent most of the night floating in the water and actually holding onto the rafters in some building where they had taken shelter.

[oceanview]

we cut down all of the trees on our property years ago. i hate trees.

[dixie sass]

I live in Summerville. I remember Charlie Hall being forced off the set of Channel 5 News. Their studio was in the downtown area. Most of the reporters came here (about 17 miles from downtown) and could not believe that the storm came this far - dumb idiots! Locals could have told them storms don't stop at the beach.

[Big Steve]

I echo what you are saying about not being in McClellanville. They caught the powerful northeastern part of the storm.