Hurricane HUGO 9/17/89 - St. Croix USVI 🇻🇮category 5 major bad weather historic footage disaster
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I was 14 years old living near the Botanical Gardens in St George. This storm ripped the roof from right over my head. I remember my ears were popping. We ending getting under a table and propped a mattress on one side. Our fenced in yard was destroyed and one of our dogs was missing. A week later he walked up to the house much to my surprise and relief. What a memory…this brought back a flood of them. Thank you for sharing…I shared this video with my sister, looks like she remembers you from Country Day. Her name is Paula Brokaw, you may remember her.
I survived Hurricane Hugo on 9/17/1989, I lived on St Thomas. The roof tore entirely off the house I was living in. I was downstairs with the entire veranda glass all boarded up, hunkered down in the bedroom where there were no windows. Hugo tore the roof off entirely off and ripped off every piece of plywood that was nailed to the concrete covering up all windows and sliders. It was the longest night of my life. I stayed 2 more years after Hugo, a total of 5 years, and helped rebuild. It was beautiful watching everyone come together. As I sit in Florida, I am preparing for Hurricane Ian to come through; it is 9/26/2022; I look back and reflect on how big Hugo was and how I am not afraid, and how the God I serve is so much bigger than any storm I will ever go through. He protects His children, and Jesus brings a sense of peace to my heart that, at times, is overwhelmingly beautiful. Thank you for this video, I have watched it year in and year out around the anniversary of Hugo... God bless all in Hurricane Ian's path right now...
thanks for posting this. Most of us were too shook to take pics. I life-changing event, I think we can all agree.
I was nine years old when the hurricane blew through St.Croix. Everything we lost were of material value but all my loved ones survived. There were about ten of us huddled in one small room throughout the night. After the hurricane, the most difficult things for me were washing clothes by hand and standing in long lines for ice. But there were so many beautiful things that resulted from not having access to our usual conveniences (besides my great appreciation for the washing machine). For one neighbors helped each other more than usual. And we manufactured many games that we played at night when there was no electricity. We sang a lot since we didn't have a radio, we told lots of stories, and we laughed a lot. Most importantly, we spent quality time with family and friends.
I moved to the US to pursue a college education and have been here since but St.Croix will forever be my home. Nothing compares to hanging out on the beach, drinking coconut water followed by eating some fresh fish that my uncle caught and cleaned my mom cooked on the beach. You just can't put a price tag on that :)
senoritaorisa you are such a fucking liar
@@rook5503 your such a fucking dick
Did you know Tim Duncan?
@@acjnse8258 Nope, I didn't know him and never met him but some of the basketball players that I went to school with knew him. My highschool gymnasium was named after him and he came to my school for the ceremony. I really didn't care for all the hoopla so I didn't attend the event which had crowds of people inside and outside just trying to get a glimpse of him. He has done a lot of great things for the island.
Wow. Just wow. I was 6 years old when Hurrican Hugo hit. I remember the roof flying off while I was sleeping with the rest of the kids in the hallway, I remember running to the closet, helping to hold the mattress over the closet, I remember having to pee in a bucket. Gosh, I just got chills watching this. Thank you for sharing.
This Hurricane changed our lives for ever! I lived here as a kid, Mom worked for Techno Diesel. Sad to say we moved to CT shortly after the hurricane!
Blast from the past. Thanks for sharing
I remember St. Croix just like this and watched it come back alive . Everyone worked so hard to overcome this storm ,piece by piece , year by year. What an experience to have been a part of their recovery. Love the people , miss the island...
I lived on St. Croix when Hugo hit. My home was leveled. Today is the 29th anniversary! Watching this video made me cry all over again ! I live in Richmond Va and we came close this week with hurricane Florence hitting us this week but it headed south once it got closer. Thank you for the video as it is a reminder of mother nature and how grateful we are to have lived through Hugo!
Incredible footage. Thank you. For just a 23 year old kid, you had a great presence of mind to document all that.
Glad you made it beestingz,🤝👏, my wife, daughter and I made it through Irmaria on STT. @ the Beachcomber, which is now closed. Jahbless
I survived Hurricane Hugo! Watching this makes it even more surreal and I was there.
Man Matt Edwards it must have felt like the world was coming to an end going thru Hugo in the Virgin Islands and St. Croix back in 1989 were u In the island's still when Hurricane Irma hit on September 6th 2017 as a Category 5 with 180 mph winds I saw the destruction Irma cause in Barbuda, St. Martin, and the British Virgin Islands as a category 5 storm and I must say Irma is now the new benchmark hurricane for the Northern Leeward islands Hugo was epic and extremely devastating but I believe with no doubt Irma was on another level would u agree?
Dayshawn Bryant I wasn’t there for Irma. I now live in Boise Idaho where there aren’t any hurricanes. I was 16 years old when Hugo came and it’s still as fresh today as it was when we experienced it. It was like the world was coming to an end.
I have not seen this stuff in so long. Wow- I was in 9th grade at GHS when this happened. This brings tears to my eyes.
Wow! I was searching for property on St. Croix and came across this "Before and the Aftermath" of Hurricane Hugo. Thank you Farchette & Hanley Real Estate (Chris) for sharing. Your footage was amazing, Bro :-), especially for back in the day. I remember all too well that storm and the week that followed after... until we could get a plane out. Hugo hit 3 days before my 17th birthday. I miss the island so much. I can't wait to get back! Thank you again for sharing. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
I was 10 years old when Hugo hit. We had to go to neighbors house in the middle of the storm and hunker down after our roof blew off.
Cool vid. Just moved to USVI St Thomas. Helping me understand history of hurricanes and how to prepare. Thanks for posting this.
wow.......I was 12 years old when this hurricane hit......my home was destroyed. me and 13 of my family members . were in a small bathroom. ..riding the storm out...awesome footage. ...brings back lots of memories. .......
I can only imagine how long it took to rebuild considering how “Island time” works.
Thanks for the video. I remember it all too well. Was working at the Hotel Association at that time.
I was 2 years old. I lived and still live in Charleston SC. It hit us after yall as a category 4. I'm 36 now. But man.... this video yall did was nice but devastating. I'm glad yall were ok. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for this video dude. I was in the 12th grade at Central High School back in 89. Damn that was a long night and it was an experience i will never forget. Seeing this brings back some serious memories.
Thanks for this video ,I was in St.Croix when it hit the Island with my new born baby boy thank God my father took my familia to to hes work place in Christiansted Federal Court House ,we stayed in the Judges chamber my father was incharge of securing the court paper work and also securing his family will never forget you Salvador Fragosa ,best father ever now desiesed this brings him to mi memory,!😢
this is my first memory, I remember the sounds of the winds and a few other details. I was 2 and a half. my mother was pregnant with me and my older brother. my family had lived on st Croix for about 15 years, but it destroyed our home. we were homeless mostly for another 6 years before we were able to stabilize again. I definitely wish I could hear more stories about the storm, it fascinates me because it so severely effected my family and changed the course of our lives but also because it produced my first memories such as seeing a tornado and being hungry , being exited and in awe at what happened to the house, etc.
Thank You for posting! Shared this with my family as I was a teen back then. Devastating! STX never been the same since
Wow this brings back memories for the people of St. Croix, thanks for sharing.
Ancient Indigenous One im living st croix when i was born in 2002 and now its 2016 and my friend told me do you know hurricane hugo i was like no so i watch allot of videos about it
Hamza STX Badman You was not even born yet I don't think you would gave handled that storm as a kid.
thanks for this video am sure alot of V.I. ppl would love to c this Hugo madness it's really sad but it really brought back memories i was only 10 at the time
Wonderful & awesome video. We relived the horror, uncertainty and devastation we went through and survived the monster hurricane, whose physical & emotional effects haunted us for years. Our faith in God made the big difference. Amen!!!!
I went through Hugo at the base of Ham's Bluff. One of my jobs was keeping the generator running and it did run all night and kept on even though it was the only light on the whole island. The generator building collapsed but the Detroit Diesel kept running and generating. We had the full eyewall and then the calm, then the wind started back the other way just as strong. The next morning we were isolated and though we may have been the only ones who survived it looked so bad, not a leaf on any tree, not a blade of grass. There was a ship that worked with us at Hess' Krause Lagoon, the M/V Acoustic Explorer, which registered 168 mph then the anemometer was blown away. NWS believes the strongest winds were between Salt River and Ham's Bluff along the north west corner of the island so possibly one of the strongest storms ever seen in thge Atlantic.
Just watched this, while watching Irma work her way towards stx, from stateside. It was definitely an eye opener. Thanks for sharing this video. My prayers are with y'all and our favorite little island tonight.
Wow. Gave me goose bumps seeing that again.
I survived Hugo! I was on the beach that morning, came back home and the avocado tree was broken in half and hundreds of avocado on the ground. Ate lots of avocado in the coming days and weeks and still love it! #Strawberry #Christiansted
I was living in paradise projects when this hit in 89 damn it was crazy
Oh shit me too though I was like 4-5. I remember going down by my grandmother Jean- Baptiste (rip) the morning after and seeing the windows blown out, no trees being able to see to the airport. I remember the stop sign to turn in towards paradise off the highway being twisted. It was an incredible experience to live through.
omg I'll never forget this I was small like even year's old at that time,now I'm 40.😮👍
Watching this now as Hurricane Irma approaches to get an idea of how it was back then in Hugo.
Finally I got the story right about my beautiful house the Maureen O'Hara house currently Skyhawk Villa on Herman Hill Estate. What a document! Thank you Thank you.....
Hi Chris, thanks for posting the video, I was sitting it out on Harbour Ridge with Bill Heard.
NIICE VIDEO.I was living on St.Croix at the time with my mother and brother. It was pure luck that I wasn't there for the storm. my father had asked me if I would fly back and drive him and his wife to his hometown inPA for a kin d of "roots"tour before he died.So Iwas in Pittsbughat a cousins house the night of the storm.We knew it was bad when no phone calls would go through to the island.Wencut short the trip and drove back to Savannah,GA where my father lived.mAfter unpacking at my mothers house on Wilmington island,I pondered what to do next,the phones still did not work and the nightly news was showing video of looters at Sunny Isles.I drove to Jacksonville and chartered a plane to take me to the island.Hen we got there ,the ,I limilitary asked the pilot if we were a "relief"flight. I told him to say yes.E were a relief flight ,albeit, a private one.I rented a car and drove up to my mother' s house and found the second floor gone,but fortunately every one was alright..T
Excellent video! Thanks, Chris.
Thanks for sharing Chris! Wow.
Wow! Thanks, Chris, for taking the time to make and to post this video. It made me physically ill to see the destruction of the island I used to call home in the early 70's. Saludos from Zihuatanejo (where the Shawshank Redemption WASN'T filmed).
Rob Whitehead
my mom was in a Hugo before she's is a survivor and my grandma and auntie
I was there enforcing martial law during the aftermath as a US Army Military Policeman. Devastating destruction!😢
good morning i am elisa ayala and i remember dis i was 3years old when my younger brother got kill for harricane hugo
I remember Hugo when I was a little boy back home in St Thomas, I don't know how old I was, that time I was still in elementary when it hit my island but it was totally wicked storm. I remember getting up cause the door bell ring, went to my house door look out to see anyone out their but it was the wind played a trick on me. of course I was scared, I stayed in my moms room with the radio on wsta, lucky 13 playing giving update on the island.
I visited St. Thomas that February (1989)/(U.S. Navy).
I left the island just a few days before Hugo hit. Always wondered about the Polzer house I built, you showed it under the castle. Thanks
wow. i too was there i was 7. the store owned by my step dads family. we hunkered down in.
wow, my heart was racing the whole time watching. I was supposed to leave that day for my enlistment to the Corp when they cancelled all flights the day before. We lived in welcome and it was totally devastated as your footage at 59.55 showed. I was a moment in life that changed all our lives some way or the other. thanks for sharing.
I notice at bout 51 minute mark, you mentioned Herman Hill...I lived at the Hilty House on that hill.
I still remember those 2 days VERY well! 8 years old held up in the old Hess warehouse with most of all the other Hess families ( my first year on island and first hurricane) . Breaking through the wall to the firehouse in the middle of the night due to the roof starting to come up (it held though) then seeing the unimaginable change in the beautiful island the next after noon. Hugo trudging over St.Croix full on moving at only 8mph with Cat 5 winds seemed to suck the color out of the leaves of the trees even. The Massive Oil Storage tanks crushed like coke cans and houses left with nothing but a foundation and a toilet. Trees I used to climb and places I used to go..the people we used to be changed forever.
Annoying you never hear much or see much about St. Croix when you search about Hugo...its always about when it hit mainland after it tore the Caribbean up and downgraded
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Went threw that hell. went into shock and many more, Lived there for 40 years. Still love that place, Left 3 years ago no work. I would love to do back..Peace out STX. Hope i see you again some day.
Wow, thanks for posting your documentation. All of the destruction was very sad.
Omg I was 2 years old when Hugo hit St. Croix...always heard my mom and family talk about the destruction but never saw it...🤤
Same I was making 2 the following January. My mom talked about the destruction it was so bad we left one month after the hurricane.
San Antonio Spurs player (and probably GOAT on the Spurs franchise) Tim Duncan was a native of St. Croix and was trying out to eventually become an Olympic swimmer; Hugo destroyed the only Olympic-sized pool on the island and Duncan developed a fear of sharks from swimming in the ocean, so he switched to basketball and the rest, as they say, is history (on a side note, Duncan will never have to buy a drink in the San Antonio area ever again)...
Thank you for sharing!!!
Guys thank you!
sion.farm ain gah nuttin.leff!!! lol wow...this video got.me.choked.up
Creed Gillem lol
Was deployed overseas (US Navy) when Hugo hit. I am a SC resident. My cousin and his family were living in Charleston at the time. They rode it out, but he said if they had it to do over again, they would have left.
I was convinced due to this hurricane 😅love you mom and dad ❤
thanks for sharing.....
I spent the night of Hugo on a boat in entrance to Salt River Marina. When it got dark we counted nearly 40 boats in the bay and in the morning there were none except for the steel boat in front of us and those behind us in the marina. Your video gave me goose bumps it brought back some amazing memories. I have photographs of the scenes you filmed in down town Christiansted and the yacht club. After the hurricane we helped Jeanne and Chuck Goodrich with the rebuild of their house. Do you happen to know of them; Chuck was in real estate at the time? I am still in touch with many people who were on island then and I will post your link on my Facebook page for them to see.
You said "this can take any breeze god can create" and just like that your whole house got destroyed. Don't underestimate nature dude.
I remember seeing this on television as a kid
GREAT VIDEO
Hear comes the beast scary memories Hugo almost killed me
I was in north carolina when Hugo hit there I was 19
I was 7 wen hugo hit... His rass tear we a new ass fr...
Great video, thanks for uploading it. What happened to your house? Did you rebuild & keep it? Looks like a lovely home. My wife & I have a home on STT, and I am concerned that if the USVI sees another storm of this strength, there will be mass destruction yet again. Hopefully not in my lifetime!
& then there was Irmaria. Hope all went well. My wife, daughter and I made it through with the help of the Tomians.🤝
I was 5 months old at the time.
The hurricane that caused Tim Duncan to switch careers, from Olympic swimmer to NBA star for the San Antonio Spurs...
I helped rewire the gentle winds condo's in st croix in 91 after hurricane hugo
I use to leave in Paradise to.
wow, i was in Puerto rico back then,hugo was a bummer.
I hope the catastrophic damage caused them to re-think building codes on the island. Most damage like this is caused by storm surge, but there are so many places well above the storm surge zone that are completely destroyed which should have survived.
New building codes after Hugo! STX is THE best built island in the Caribbean!
1989 Since Hurricane Hugo struck St Croix, the island has not been the same. They are homes and businesses that were destroyed during the storm never repaired until this day!
Curious as to how it looks today. Where are you at this point in your life, your family? Did you remain on the island or did you move?
I waz six when it hit i can still remember
The house looks fine but only needs some remodeling list new furniture and lights power and new of everything
the pilots spent the night on our gallery and flew back the next day with my mother Anne two of her tenants. my brother and I stayed to guard the place and help with the reconstruction.We got power back Dec.24 at about dark.A series of generators had made it not too bad living up there in one of the demolished apartmentsI only had to run looters off once.Apparentlyword of the big,scary, white guys with guns and Dobermans got around.Seeing the damage,I was glad I missed the storm
Me de dare boy!
My dad was there but had to be sent to New York alone with his brother because the schools were destroyed and had to live with there grandmother
Wow... I was just a little girl when it came .... I will never forget😭😭
MyLifeAsMom thank goodness I was not born prays to god 👏👏👏👏👏👏 I love God for life ❤❤❤❤
and I will love God when I'm dead
my brother name was andrew corcino rip
I wonder if Maria is going to be worse after all the damage is assessed.
beestingza Maria was worst than Hugo it was a stronger Cat 5.
What happened to the footage DURING the hurricane? I saw another St. Croix film, showing these people, that showed filming at the amazing height of the storm. But not here. After about 14:00 minutes of buildup, it cuts to aftermath. What a letdown!
It all happened in the night. There wasn't much to see, but a lot to hear!
@@Defender-Guy There used to be a video with Chris Hanley narrating as the roof was going off.
julie99nl I hadn’t realised this is the same guy we keep seeing on ‘Caribbean Life’!
They went to the closet in the back and survived there. If they had stayed out in the living room well yopu saw what would have happened, flying glass and everything. Once you get six people in a closet huddled together with the roof coming off you wouldn't feel like running a video camera, plus the candle lights would have blown out.
I was stateside at school. I remember an effort by some students to charter a plane and go home. Then came the call from Hess that my parents were ok. When I went home that December for break, you could see all the way in the bush and remember pulling volunteer guard duty at Judith’s Fancy. Our driveway was the first left on JF after Bacuba Rd. The house sort of across from us just had a cement block left. We lost some shingles, and had a lit of our neighbor’s appliances in our pool. Hugo, IMO, was the start of STX’s downward spiral. I hope it ends soon. We still absolutely LOVE deh rock mehson and visit somewhat regularly. Peace and love to all Cruzans.
I survived Hurricane Hugo, sadly my baby did not.
Just brute force and ignorance. I survived Hugo. I went back last September 17th and that island is still a hot mess. I'm so glad I left.
This is endlessly fascinating. We just bought property in LaGrande Princess, so it's great to watch the recent history of the island.
MARILYN WAS MORE POWERFULL I WAS IN ST.THOMAS USVI WHEN IT HIT
Darrel Jno baptiste Marilyn was not as strong as Hugo it was only a Cat 2 not a Cat 5.