I slept through most of it, but got up in time to watch the eye move past us to the west. I got my drivers license while our schools were shut down, and went dove hunting for the first time. Missed every bird I shot at with my single shot 20 gauge. Couldn’t use my dad’s pump 12 gauge since I couldn’t find the plug for it and didn’t know I could just cut a piece of dowel to use as a plug.
Another thing, that was the first time I noticed how clean the air was and how bright the sunlight was after a tropical system moves through. For a few days after Hugo, everything was so vivid and clean. I’ve seen that many times since then, but the affect of the storm on air quality was so noticeable after Hugo.
I slept through it
My dad going out in the eye of the storm to pick up one of my mom's single friends and bring her back to our house.
I was in grad school in Boulder. That sucker barreled in right through Charleston, then turned northish. The eye passed just two counties east of my folks...I was worried sick about them. Turns out they were OK but I was aghast at the pictures of the destruction, particularly downed timber.
We forecast an elastic collision...ha ha, whoops...The forecast the day before was for it to hit the coast in the Charleston area and bounce back out to sea.
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Why do I find this disturbing, or worthy of it's own thread.