My Brother I don't doubt you one bit! I went through Hugo on Sept 17th 1989! The wind speeds were up to 220mph. When those gust came crashing throught the hills and valleys of my island and stacked two F250s one ontop the other, threw a cutter on the waterfront, leveled a block house in St.Croix, blew a few houses off the hillside and destroyed hundreds of boats. Hugo was no joke!
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