![]() ![]() The entire experience was an eerie feeling indeed. We went outside when the eye was over us. It was the most eerie feeling I’d ever had at the time and certainly the first hurricane I had witnessed. old beside me for a time(at that age even a hurricane can’t keep them still) and holding my 4 month old as if it would be my last time holding and loving her. I remember telling my husband that I love him so much, having my 6 yr. We slept on the floor of the living room, not that any of us got much sleep. We went to his parents for the night as they lived in a brick home. old) and one daughter (4 months old) and I was about 3 months pregnant, but didn’t realize it at the time. We were in the process of moving out of our mobile home and into a house. We were about 64 miles or so from Myrtle Beach, S.C & about 80 miles from Charleston, S.C. ![]() My husband, Dean & I were living in Cedar Swamp, a small community about 12 miles out of Kingstree, South Carolina. We rebuilt and I remember it taking 3 weeks for them to clear the roads from givhans to Hemingway we always carried a chain saw and chain to drag a tree off the road. My parents home they were working on had 12 trees in it and our mobile home had 10 trees in it. The next morning we awoke to a disaster every tree in the yard was gone or knocked down. Going to sleep and waking up to horrible sounds an my baby sister crying as she was 3 months old. I remember my parents taking myself and 3 siblings an putting us in a old block house and covering the windows with anything and everything they could find. I remember going to school that day being given homework with plans this storm would never hit Sc. I recently traveled back home over the summer and you can still see the effects of this hurricane this many years later. We lost all personal belongings, thankful we made it out alive as it did so much damage in the low country. We moved to Hemingway after the storm so that we wouldn't miss school (we stayed 3 months in Hemingway) as our homes had been destroyed in Givhans. I was in Givhans, SC next to Summerv ille. ![]()
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