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charlestonsouth
Aug 25, 2017Explorer
Silversand, you are right on the mark. One would think you have been through a hurricane before. As someone who has been through three of these, two as a child and the last as an adult in 1989 named Hugo, you prepare as best you can because these are fickle storms, especially as to changing position and how fast they move away from your area; the size of Hugo was as big as the land mass of SC. Hugo came into Charleston as a Cat. 4 with a 12-foot wall of water ahead of the storm with the surge pushing cars into piles and emergency shelters having to push children into the rafters of their buildings as the water rose inside. If you have your RV stored with insurance, you are in good shape; but with high winds and rain inland, it is best for anyone staying in their RV to leave. Hugo produced tornadoes ahead of the surge and the eye of the storm. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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