We probably ought to pray,'” Tompkins said. Hugo had a history before South Carolina. The storm crippled and nearly crashed a Hurricane Hunter plane as a Category 5 east of the Caribbean.

Hurricane Hugo slammed into Charleston County on Sept. 21, 1989 as a Category 4 storm, becoming the strongest and costliest in the state's history. Hugo was the only Category 4 hurricane to make ...

Hurricane Matthew made landfall Saturday morning in the town of McClellanville, 27 years after Hugo slammed into the fishing village. The Live 5 News team looked back at the hurricane that changed the ...

Sept. 15 marks the 34th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo's intensification into a Category 5 hurricane and Hurricane Florence's impact on South Carolina five years ago.

But WBT’s Russell said technology would make life after a 2014 Hurricane Hugo much different than in 1989. “That was before the Internet, before smartphones,” he said.

Get our newsletter! Young people of the U.S. Virgin Islands march along in a carnival parade, amid the destruction of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Photo by Mary Jane Soule, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives ...

As Gulf Coast communities rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, some are hoping to emulate the experience of Charleston, S.C. Hurricane Hugo devastated the city in 1989, but in many ways, it ended up ...

Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 storm, smashed ashore at Charleston with its 135 mph winds 20 years ago on Monday. Charleston city spokeswoman Barbara Vaughn says there are no city observances of the ...

Can you believe it's been 25 years since Hurricane Hugo? For those new to the Carolinas or too young to recall, Hugo was for Charleston, S.C., and Charlotte what Fran was for Wilmington and ...

Hugo weakened to a category 4 hurricane on Sept. 16 as it aimed at the Leeward Islands of Guadeloupe and Montserrat. Hugo blasted St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands early in the morning of Sept ...