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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Hurricane Hugo struck South Carolina in September 1989, many elected officials were dismayed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Charleston Mayor Joe Riley grew exasperated when, during ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Oct. 8, 2016, in the same Charleston County town where Hurricane Hugo hit 27 years earlier. Matthew was a Category 5 storm at one point, ...