The Forgotten: Help Yet A Dream in Huger after Hugo
A year after Hurricane Hugo, 60 year old Ernestine Beaufort, deaf and blind, lives in a damaged Huger trailer decayed by mold and leaks. The Palmetto Project and agencies seek forgotten victims, with Beaufort as their first priority amid poverty and neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernestine Beaufort
Ruby Brenda Beaufort
Miss Beaufort
S.C. Highway 41
Berkeley County
Tuby
Ruby
Huger
Miriam Green
Berkeley Electric Cooperative
Palmetto Project
Charleston
Berkeley
Unrecoverable Billions Lost In Hugo Hit Timberlands
Forester W McLeod Rhodes reports Hugo devastated South Carolina timberlands with more than 80 percent of pines snapped. By salvage time only about 15 percent of downed timber had been salvaged, prices collapsed to a third, and salvage costs exceeded 150 million dollars across 4.5 million acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. McLeod Rhodes
Hugo
Charieston
Rhodes
McLeod
South Carolina
After Hugo year sparks life changes along South Carolina coast
A year after Hurricane Hugo, residents in Lee County and along the Isle of Palms rebuild. J T Keels recalls D Day, Doby Gordon saved 170 people from a gym as it collapsed, Aunt Ruby Reeves endures hardship while planning a fresh start, and John Henry Cain rises with a Palmetto Project aided new home featuring an indoor tub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Miss Beaufort
Richardson
Hugo
Sis
Mrs. Richardson
J.T. Keels
Lee County
Normandy
Doby Gordon
Gordon
Bethune High
Ruby M. Reeves
Ruby
Bishopville
John Henry Cain
Cain
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mrs
Band
Jehovah's Witness Church
Ape
K Aiken
Kayte Knudsen
Ariene Knudsen
Mount Pleasant
Isle of Palms
Mrs. Reeves
John Hare
Florence
Hare
By Scott Webster