SAFE FROM THE STORM
CAT FIVE HOUSES WILL STAND UP TO HURRICANES BY BRIAN SHERMAN
Homeowner’s
insurance costs will fall and insurance
companies will be less likely to cancel policies that cover hurricane damage.
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N SEPTEMBER 1989, HURRICANE HUGO roared through Charleston, soaking and slashing its way through the city, taking the
lives of 27 South Carolina residents, causing $7 billion in damage along the U.S. East Coast and temporarily making it impossible to drive from Mount Pleasant to Sullivan’s Island or the Isle of Palms. Ten years later, with Hurricane
Floyd menacing the U.S. mainland, South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges ordered Charleston-area residents to
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leave their homes along the coast. Around 400,000 of them headed for higher ground, taking part in one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history and creating a mammoth traffic jam made much worse by a severe lack of bathrooms and hotel rooms along the way. For many motorists, the two-hour trip to Columbia took eight times that long. Te category 4 storm all but bypassed South Carolina, causing heavy damage in North Carolina and points north. A long list of other hurricanes
have threatened the Charleston area
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