Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept-Oct 2023

55 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ShemCreekRestaurants.com BY MARY COY Storm of the Century It’s that time of year again. Hurricane season. It’s also the anniversary of what many folks in the Lowcountry consider a day that will live in infamy: September 21, 1989. If you were living anywhere near here at the time, you know exactly what that date signifies. “Where were you during Hugo?” are words that many long-time residents still ask one another. I personally recalled that, beforehand, I thought it was much ado about nothing. Standing in line at K-Mart waiting to buy a bedspread, I saw other customers stocking up on batteries, Lifelong lessons learned from Hurricane Hugo

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