Although the worst of Hugo affected one of the more sparsely populated reaches of the South Carolina coast, it was necessary for residents in a much larger area to assess and respond to the threat.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — September 22, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo making landfall just north of Charleston, South Carolina. The monster storm had formed over the eastern Atlantic near ...

Twelve days after a tropical depression formed in the Atlantic off of the coast of West Africa, south of the Cape Verde Islands, what grew to be Hurricane Hugo plowed through the Carolinas, changing ...

Homes were dark, businesses shut down, and Charlotte was ground to a halt as the storm devastated the Carolinas. Duke Energy’s Robert Combs remembers vividly how he couldn’t even make it to the city ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The number of power outages across South Carolina keeps dropping again tonight as more people are getting their lights back on. It’s welcome news as Gov. Henry McMaster, along ...

Even excluding effects in the Caribbean, Hugo was the most damaging hurricane in U.S. history prior to Hurricane Andrew. The remarkable aspect of Hugo was the size of the area severely affected by the ...