Hurricane Hugo 1989

Hurricane Hugo is a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffer-Simpson scale. It was first detected as a tropical wave emerging from the coast of Africa on September 9, then a tropical depression the next day, a tropical storm on the 11th, and a hurricane on the 13th. Hurricane Hugo had 21 deaths in the mainland United States, five more in Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and 24 more elsewhere in the Caribbean. This hurricane coats us $7 billion in the mainland United States and $1 billion in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.