Hurricane Hugo facts
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Tim Duncan grew up in the US Virgin Islands where he was gearing up for the 1992 Olympics as a competitive swimmer until Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic-sized pool. The only alternative was to swim in the ocean, and Duncan was afraid of sharks, so he turned to basketball.
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Basketball legend Tim Duncan was a teenage champion swimmer in the Virgin Islands. When Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks
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Basketball Player Tim Duncan was almost an Olympic level swimmer but had to quit due to Hurricane Hugo destroying his practice pool forcing him to practice in the Ocean, he quit soon after due to his fear of sharks
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The Caribbean studio where The Police "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and Paul McCartney's "Ebony & Ivory" and "Take It Away" were recorded is rotting away, having been destroyed in 1989 by Hurricane Hugo, and is full of wasp nests.
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In September of 1989, a NOAA hurricane hunter airplane illustrated why you should avoid flying low level into a Category 5 Hurricane when it intercepted Hurricane Hugo as it approached the Caribbean islands, just before Hugo's destructive rampage through the Caribbean and South Carolina
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US Senator Fritz Hollings referred to FEMA as "a bunch of bureaucratic jackasses" in regards to their slow response after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, almost 16 years before Hurricane Katrina.
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A nuclear submarine sat on the bottom of a river to ride out Hurricane Hugo.
