I remember a trip to grandmas house, generators, chainsaws, making forts in all the downed trees and no school…it was good times, but I’m sure my Dad wasn’t happy.
Metal Hull Militia
check out the 2nd and 3rd pics where the worst of the t-storms are on the SW side of the storm. typically the North side contains the worst weather…interesting.
And the sea shall grant each man new hope as sleep brings dreams of home ~ Don Cristobol
The Morris Island Lighthouse web page
www.savethelight.org
I lived on Folly Beach off of Folly river and every tree that fell, fell away from the our house. It was crazy but I remember living with grandma and eating good for a few weeks. We stayed at saint francis hospital and I remember them saying that it flooded so bad that fish were in the emergency room.
From reds to marlin you got it.
2001 210 Sea Fox
2009 Yamaha F150
2010 Skeeter ZX22T
2010 Yamaha VMAX 225
TEAM BOAT
I was hunkered down in Beaufort, and had the battery powered radio going as the power was out. The Charleston station I was listening too went eerily silent around midnight. Slept under the bed that night. Beaufort got off easy compared to you guys up north.
Sea Hunt 207CC,Yam 150
www.abfishcharters.com
Rode the storm out at the house in the pic. I was 7 and remember it very well
I was 8 yrs old at the time and I remember lots of chain saws and no school! I do remember having to boil water for about two weeks.
I was a sophmore in high school. I remember it like it was yesterday. My brother was a freshman at West Point. My dad was a (recently retired…still weird to think of him as old enough to retire)safety engineer for SCE&G (now Scana Corp.)During the storm I remember actually coming to the realization…“Wow, this is actually bad…if something happens to this house they’re isn’t a way to escape this storm…all this water and down tree’s…chances are someone would die because it’s going to be tough to get to them and even if you could get to them what the hell are you going to do to get them safe.” That was the first time that I ever realized what the meaning of “mortality” was. Pretty significant looking back on it and coming to that realization. After the storm my brother away at college and my dad and his crews working 20+ hour days I was the man of the house, left to cut 13 big ass (you know the ones “pre-hugo”) pine tree’s that had fallen in the yard. Remarkably and thankfully only one hit the house and only took out the corner of the frog. Best we could tell is that the wind was blowing so hard it was creating a “wind tunnel” around the house. That’s a trip all in itself…wind blowing so hard against your house that tree’s get caught in it and are diverted from your house…remarkable! I cut all those trees and like to think that I took care of and comforted my mom and little sister. My dad would come home periodicaly…most while I was exhausted and asleep in the wee hours of the morning…he would be gone before I woke up…already back out being one of the many heros that worked that storm outage. At the end of a very long 3.5 week stretch without electricity we had lights, a/c, hot food and hot water. My dad came home with an enormous smile on his face and open arms…toward me. That was the most heart felt thanks I can ever remember getting from anyone…ever. He looked me in the eye and said "You did a good job. I’m proud of you, you took good care of the place and your family. You grew up alot did
WOW! What a trip down memory lane. I can actually smell pine sap as tree’s are being cut and hear chainsaw’s.
Wind in your face, the sun at your back and nothing to do but hunt. Life is good.
Wow! We lost our house on IOP. Went w/o power for three weeks in Mt. Pleasant!
My house on Lake Marion had a dozen trees down in my yard. Three trees went through the roof and walls. When we were cleaning up, I told the guys with the saws that the tallest thing I wanted in my yard was GRASS. So much of the damage to homes everywhere was from trees blown into…and through houses.
At Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, which is about 70-80 miles INLAND, winds were recorded at 125 mph.