Airboss, my homework has been all too close. I lived in Myrtle Beach since a year before Hugo, and have stayed on the air broadcasting during everyone since then. Although we've had about 10 mandatory evacuations since then, we've been spared a direct hit since Hazel in the fifties.
Hugo certainly mangled us though. My apartment in Murrells Inlet
was out of power for a week. Buildings were pushed across 17 business in Murrells Inlet by the storm surge.
Since then no biggies, but I watch each and every storm very closely, especially since I'm now a homeowner, just 7/10ths of a mile from the Atlantic!!