CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Sunday will mark 36 years since Hurricane Hugo slammed into South Carolina. The powerful Category 4 storm came crashing into the Lowcountry on the night of Sept. 21, 1989, ...

The Charleston Museum's new exhibit covers a lot of ground, adding a century-and-a-half worth of history to bring the museum's curatorial timeline up to date. The new permanent installation Beyond the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Sunday marked 36 years since Hurricane Hugo, a powerful Category 4 storm, began battering the South Carolina coast. The hurricane made landfall near Sullivan’s Island just ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The only Category 4 hurricane to make landfall on the mainland U.S. in the 1980s did so just north of Charleston over Sullivan’s Island 36 years ago. When Hurricane Hugo made ...

Hurricane Hugo made landfall north of Charleston Harbor on the South Carolina coast the night of Sept. 21, 1989, affecting an estimated 1.8 million people. Presidential declarations were issued for 24 ...

Nearly twice as many people — and more than twice as many homes — would be in danger if Hurricane Hugo hit today. In the 30 years since the deadly storm slammed into South Carolina, the population of ...

Hugo’s storm surge swept this Surfside Beach home from its oceanfront lot into the middle of the Ocean Boulevard. The random cruelty of Hurricane Hugo was evident as some oceanfront homes were ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Every storm has a story, and many more have yet to be written. From each hurricane’s beginning, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, to their dramatic end on our ...

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 ...

In Charleston, SC, we unfortunately get our fair share of flooding, tropical storms and hurricanes. An example of this was Sept. 22, 1989, when Hurricane Hugo made direct landfall in the city. It was ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Before Hurricane Hugo made its landfall in Charleston County in 1989, the biggest “direct hit” most people would have remembered was Hurricane Gracie 30 years earlier. Gracie ...