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    Hurricane Hugo was an intense Category 5 Cape Verde tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread damage across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern...
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    Tonbridge, Kent, ISBN 0-85130-100-2. NOAA Hurricane Hunters Hunting Hurricane Hugo Flight of NOAA42 Navy Hurricane Hunters homepage 53rd Weather Reconnaissance...
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    hurricanes. As of September 2021, the church is buried deep in the ash. Montserrat was struck by Hurricane Hugo on 17 September 1989. The hurricane destroyed...
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    storm of the season was Hurricane Hugo, which became the costliest Atlantic hurricane on record at the time (surpassed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992), causing...
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    Henson, daughter of Jim Henson, Hugo the Hornet was created in 1988, one year before Hurricane Hugo hit the Carolinas. The Hugo moniker was selected from a...
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  • Look up Hugo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hugo or HUGO may refer to: Hugo (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese Hugo Award, a science...
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    on 14 October 1954. Hurricane Hazel slammed into the community and left only two houses habitable. In September 1989, Hurricane Hugo destroyed 43% of the...
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    Georgia the following day in preparation for the impending arrival of Hurricane Hugo. On the morning of 19 September, Carr entered Naval Station Mayport...
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    ended. On September 21, 1989, Mount Pleasant was hit by Hurricane Hugo, a Category Four hurricane. While the town was spared from the worst of the storm...
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  • washed up alongside Folly Road in Folly Beach, South Carolina, during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. After nobody claimed the boat, passers-by began painting messages...
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    current owner Bryan Devereux, efforts were rewarded. In September, 1989, Hurricane Hugo wreaked havoc on the east coast. Pier 14 suffered many damages, including...
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  • last reported sighting was just before Hurricane Florence hit in 2018 and previously just before Hurricane Hugo hit the area in 1989. Legend holds that...
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    tornado was responsible for one death and 12 injuries within Rock Hill. Hurricane Hugo struck the city on the morning of September 22, 1989. The storm ripped...
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    industries in a full range of jobs, including well-paid skilled positions. Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston in 1989, and though the worst damage was in nearby McClellanville...
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  • before, during, and after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. He also gave a special report on the hours leading up to the hurricane and on the destruction left...
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    Hunting Hugo - first-hand account of near-disastrous flight into the eye of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 NOAA Hurricane Hunters The NOAA Hurricane Hunters Flight...
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    aspired to be a competitive swimmer, but took up basketball at 14 after Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic-sized pool. In high school, he played...
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    1996, Charleston saw two significant economic hits. First, the eye of Hurricane Hugo came ashore at Charleston Harbor in 1989, and though the worst damage...
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    recording studio there, Associated Independent Recording. Destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the studio was never reestablished; however, Martin subsequently...
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    Lawrence, Miles (15 November 1989). Preliminary Report: Hurricane Hugo (PDF) (Report). National Hurricane Center. pp. 1–2, 7. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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  • May 1979 at AIR Studios in Salem. The studio was severely damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and damaged even further after Soufrière Hills erupted again...
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    [citation needed] In 1989 the town was devastated by the full brunt of Hurricane Hugo which destroyed homes, downed century-old oaks, deposited shrimp boats...
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  • Synchronicity and Brothers in Arms. In September 1989, tropical cyclone Hurricane Hugo travelled across the north-eastern Caribbean region, affecting approximately...
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    Report: Hurricane Hugo (PDF) (Report). National Hurricane Center. pp. 1–2, 7. Retrieved August 26, 2012. Lixion Avila (October 23, 1996). Hurricane Hortense...
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    Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of...
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    Hurricane Hugo came ashore near Sullivan's Island; few people were prepared for the destruction that followed in its wake. The eye of the hurricane passed...
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    steeple remain embedded in the ground next to the sanctuary. When Hurricane Hugo’s 135-mile-per-hour (217 km/h) winds swept across the peninsula of Charleston...
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    visit the Alstons, who owned several plantations in the area. With Hurricane Hugo in 1989, some island cottages were swept away and have since been replaced...
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    Carolina is over 1,600 years old. Angel Oak was damaged severely during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 but has since recovered. The City of Charleston has owned the...
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    Hurricane Marilyn was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Virgin Islands since Hurricane Hugo of 1989, and the third such tropical cyclone in roughly...
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