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Over the past week, we've asked you for your hurricane tales, and many of you have delivered. So to celebrate the end of Hurricane Week. Here are some of your stories.

Walter Durst

• My earliest memory as a child was when I was 3.  We were staying at a hotel in Biloxi MS, and a hurricane hit.  I remember standing on the mezzanine of the hotel and watching the water coming into the lobby.  My father decided that we were going to go back to our home in New Orleans.  We got a couple of blocks, and the water was coming over the tires, so we turned around and went back to the hotel.  It was a scary time for us all.

Marcianno Belton

• Wow, This is an amazing opp. to share what god did for me my Family back in fall of 1988-89 during hurricane Hugo, I remember just as if it were yesterday, i was sleeping and my mom and dad ran into my room yelling the STORM is here the STORM is here and we ran and got into the safest place we could find. All the things out side were being flown around and the wind was blowning the windows almost to bursting point, all we could do was pray and what seem to have been forever was just a matter of moments, and when everything calmed down my father and i went to check out! the damage we were in total shock everything was fine there was a shingle one shingle missing off of our roof. So i say all of that to say this prayer does work i learn that at an early age and it always will...Thank GOD for all he does..

Chad Ashley

• I'm from Houma LA where hurricanes are always on our mind. Was during the 80's I believe when hurricane Jaun dumped tons of rain. It went back into the gulf building and continuing to dump rain. Our mayor's home was getting close to flooding so a road was dug up to relieve the water. Only problem was the water was diverted to us. Flooding what was considered high ground down there. We got 8 inches of water in our house because of that. Been through many storms. I'd say Juan was worse because of our home flooding and the fact my parents decided it was time to move to high ground. So we moved here to SC. Nothing like lots of your things being ruined because of water.

Joe Pinner (Yes, that Joe Pinner)

• Peggy and I were in our house in Longcreek Plantation on Lake  Windermere when Hugo was bearing down on our dear state walloping Charleston and then coming inland.  After doing my weather thing at seven, I came home to be with my bride expecting Hugo to pay us a visit around four or five am as we had been informed and figured. Well, Peggy went to sleep about ten wanting me to wake her up when the beast arrived.  As hurricanes are wont to do, Hugo came through much earlier and I want to say around one or two am.  The wind did howl,  we lost a few  small trees, there was debris flying everywhere and Peggy slept through the whole affair while I kept watch by night to make sure we survived.  When she finally awoke around eight, everything was relatively quiet and she was a bit dismayed that I had not awakened her to join in the "excitement".  Now that is being a sound sleeper. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

Daniel Boyd

• Oh, how it happen on that September night. The wind and rain came, as everything around me begin to suddenly change. People were afraid, animals ran in fear. Oh, my brothers and sisters of South Carolina you and I were there. Trees were uprooted, power lines went down. Man was completely powerless when Hugo came to town. Man thought that he was so powerful that he did not need God's grace. Hugo came to town to put man back in his place. As the wind blew,  the rain fell, the lighting flashed, and the thunder roared.  Man was completely out of it but God was in control. That night I stood and watched trying to hide my fear, the only reason I made it though was because Jesus Christ was there. I went outside the next day to try and find my home. I went to the spot where I used to llive and found that it was gone. Then I went down on my knees, to thank God for saving me. Hugo has come and gone and I thank God that I'm not alone. Everything I had on this earth Hugo took it away, except the grace of God that is in my heart because he is here to stay. So, I don't feel so bad about my car, my boat, and my house. The Lord was there when I needed him and that is what life is all about.

Chad

• Tell you one thing living in Lugoff SC feel much safer than I did growing up in Houma which is in South Louisiana. I've been through many storms growing up. The winds are fierce but the flooding is devastating. Trust me nothing like trying to keep the water out of your home only to give up because it just continues to rise and rise and rise until it ingulfs your home destroying your belongings. At least in South Carolina where the land is high flooding is no issue for me. Like the saying goes "it's not if but when" an unpredictable monster decides to hit is why I'll visit LA but not move back.

Marilyn

• When I was a child living in Charleston we didn't have any electricity during Gracie,so we made homade ice cream ith the old fashioned churn.We didn't realize how much danger we might have been in and were facinated by the wind.

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