Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hugo's wind speed also rose from 105 to 110 mph yesterday, but forecasters said little further strengthening was likely...
Forecasters issued a hurricane watch from St. Augustine, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N.C. urging coastal residents to begin taking precautions. Hugo picked up speed over open water and could come ashore late today or early tomorrow...
Since Sunday, Hugo has killed at least 25 people, left thousands homeless and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage as it slashed through the northeastern Caribbean with wind...
Chaos reigned on St. Croix, as police and National Guard soldiers joined machete-armed mobs on a post-Hugo looting spree. Gunshots were fired, and ham radio operators heard reports that inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and were looting...
...Coast Guard sent cutters to St. Thomas topick up personnel and their families whose homeswere destroyed. It also was evacuating 200American medical students at Montserrat, a Britishcolony where Hugo damaged nearly 90 percent of thehomes...