The Strongest Storm to Ever Hit the Carolinas — Hugo 1989

⚡ WHEN THE GRID GOES DOWN — STORM PREPAREDNESS GEAR Portable power station (Hugo left some areas dark for three weeks): https://amzn.to/4wMUwMo NOAA emergency weather radio (works when the grid doesn't): https://amzn.to/4hWwrOk 72-hour emergency kit — water, light, first aid: https://amzn.to/4g4jLmh As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are affiliate links — they cost you nothing extra and help keep this channel running. On the night of September 21st, 1989, the most powerful hurricane to strike the Carolinas in a generation came ashore just north of Charleston. But it wasn't the coast that told the real story of Hugo. It was everything the storm did after it should have weakened – a wall of water nearly 20 feet high that swallowed the town of McClellanville, hurricane-force winds still tearing roofs apart in Charlotte almost 200 miles inland, and families trapped in a school shelter who climbed into the rafters as the water rose toward the ceiling. What followed became the storm that broke every rule about how far a hurricane can reach. For copyright and business inquiries, contact us at: [email protected] Music by Epidemic Sound.