COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - 36 years ago, Hurricane Hugo made landfall off the coast of South Carolina, becoming one of the deadliest and most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the state. On the Wednesday ...

Check out “The Vault” section in the free Live 5+ app, which is available on Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV and Android TV. See Live 5 News documentaries from 1989 and one year after Hugo’s landfall in ...

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 ...

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 ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Today marks 36 years since Hurricane Hugo blasted the Carolinas. Hugo was one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history, and at the time the most costly ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — It has been 36 years since Hurricane Hugo made landfall on Sullivan’s Island as a Category 4 storm. Hugo is one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the East Coast of the ...

Homes were dark, businesses shut down, and Charlotte was ground to a halt as the storm devastated the Carolinas. Duke Energy’s Robert Combs remembers vividly how he couldn’t even make it to the city ...

Although the worst of Hugo affected one of the more sparsely populated reaches of the South Carolina coast, it was necessary for residents in a much larger area to assess and respond to the threat.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — September 22, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo making landfall just north of Charleston, South Carolina. The monster storm had formed over the eastern Atlantic near ...