Pictures won't tell you......So many vicious hurricanes have hit the United States recently that it can be hard to imagine what it’s like to endure and survive such events. Here is a piece I wrote for the New York Times Sunday Magazine after Hurricane Hugo ravaged my hometown of Charleston, South Carolina in September 1989.
I thought it was such a cool place, and for years two of the grand front beach houses, ruined and abandoned, remained on stilts out in the water. Kids would climb up to do drugs.
I love the line, the world was still divided into South Carolina and not South Carolina...know that feeling
That's really fascinating about the front row of houses being washed out so that the beachfront is lined with smaller houses
After all these years away, it’s better.
I thought it was such a cool place, and for years two of the grand front beach houses, ruined and abandoned, remained on stilts out in the water. Kids would climb up to do drugs.