"WHITFIELD" 
Re: Remembering HUGO
Member #: 695
Registered: 1996-2001
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2064
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late 60s
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~46 years
Yes it was many eons ago that we worked Hugo , I was in Sumter, and then Florence , I can still recall traveling down I-95 and seeing stands of pine trees that appeared to have a flat top haircut , damage from tornadoes , spawned by Hugo . I also recall the picture on the wall at Cablevision in Sumter of a mobile home that appeared to have been body slammed upside down on the roof of a house . Mobile home parks with 10 homes ,seven of which were completely destroyed as if a bomb went off inside , the others completely untouched , it was an aswome sight . Two years later , I worked Charleston , I lived on St. Johns island , there were pieces of street and pole stumps that would appear in the ocean when the tide went out , I was told that they had lost the Ocean front and it was taken by the Ocean , Where I stayed was second row back , now ocean front . The pictures at Swaggert Shipyard of all the boats destroyed was unbelievable , they had fields full of unrepairable junk boats . I will close by telling of a story Joe Baldwin told me of staying in his beach house during a Cat 3 hurricane . He said it was blowing water right through the wood of the window sill,and of how the house shook and he'd never make that mistake again . Hurricanes are bad news no matter what don't underestimate them . A Category one destroyed many things here in my home town along Bouge Sound two years ago ,it changed the shoreline and some things on it for ever , as if in the blinking of an eye , forever changed . I'm sure some might wonder why I choose to write these things . I've seen too much death and destruction from hurricanes and if my words can relivate common sense and because of my words if you have one coming your way and you pack you mess and get out of its path and you live through it , and you think to yourself thanks Duck for warning me of what might come . I'm glad you listened . You see, I've seen first hand their destruction and you don't know how many hurricanes I have lived through watching things blow across the yard like bullets , flooding , so on and so forth , but etched in my memory the most , is a little dead pony ,blown from Carrot island across to Radio island here at home. Thanks for reading .
"WHITFIELD"
"WHITFIELD"
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