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Article: HUGO'S legacy.(South Carolina 10 years after hurricane Hugo)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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TEN YEARS LATER, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. FINDS THE HURRICANE THAT "CHANGED EVERYBODY'S LIFE," CHANGED ITS FOREST - FOR THE BETTER.
When Hurricane Hugo slammed into Charleston, South Carolina, on the night of September 21, 1989, it became - as one observer noted in the Charleston Post and Courier - "an historical marker, a point in time by which we can measure our lives. Because it changed everybody's life. Everybody's."
"Everyone knew there was something ominous about this hurricane," says Danny Burbage, Charleston's superintendent of urban forestry. He flew home from a family vacation when news accounts showed Hugo approaching the Virgin Islands.
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