{"id":498132,"date":"2022-10-04T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remembering-hurricane-hugo-battering-south-carolina-with-author-mickey-spillane\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:04:08","slug":"remembering-hurricane-hugo-battering-south-carolina-with-author-mickey-spillane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remembering-hurricane-hugo-battering-south-carolina-with-author-mickey-spillane\/","title":{"rendered":"#Remembering Hurricane Hugo battering South Carolina with author Mickey Spillane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db830c42cc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db830c42cc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remembering-hurricane-hugo-battering-south-carolina-with-author-mickey-spillane\/#%E2%80%9CRemembering_Hurricane_Hugo_battering_South_Carolina_with_author_Mickey_Spillane%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Remembering Hurricane Hugo battering South Carolina with author Mickey Spillane&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remembering-hurricane-hugo-battering-south-carolina-with-author-mickey-spillane\/#Touring_the_rocky_coast\" >Touring the rocky coast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRemembering_Hurricane_Hugo_battering_South_Carolina_with_author_Mickey_Spillane%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Remembering Hurricane Hugo battering South Carolina with author Mickey Spillane&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Cindy Adams\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Touring_the_rocky_coast\"><\/span><strong>Touring the rocky coast<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve written about midnight Sept. 1989. I\u2019m remembering it again. Hurricane Hugo. Worst killer storm to ever hit the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived to see\u00a0my friend Mickey Spillane,\u00a0then Earth\u2019s top kill \u2019em\/shoot \u2019em\/maim \u2019em mystery writer who\u2019d done 50 best sellers featuring his fictional hero Mike Hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Near what remained of Myrtle Beach \u2014 the 18-room Murrells Inlet house he\u2019d lived in 35 years \u2014 gone. His boat sat in what would\u2019ve been his living room. A live pelican fl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in the dining room. The pelican was on a dock. The dock was now in the dining room. We examined wreckage with a flashlight when the pelican flapped his wings, chased us and threw us out.<\/p>\n<p>A giant hole was the once-glorious white house. The section fronting the water totally gone. A gleaming porcelain toilet festooned the front yard.<\/p>\n<p>The front door hung. Steps, gone. Trash was piled against a 5-foot watermark like some frightening sculpture. Weird things stuck to shredded screens. A rocking chair \u2014 not his \u2014 in the library. Saltwater crabs alive and well everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>His boat wound up in the living room. \u201cWhen I went away my neighbor had my house keys,\u201d he said, \u201cbut who needs keys when there\u2019s no house?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We sat on a porch festooned with fallen trees and bushes. The roof sagged. The floor had a hole. The walls were hanging. A boiler sat on his front yard along with water pipes, kitchen freezer, clothes iron, and rocking chair that didn\u2019t belong to him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mickey-spillane.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Myster writer Mickey Spillane's Murrells Inlet house was completely destroyed by the storm.\" class=\"wp-image-24110908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mickey-spillane.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mickey-spillane.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mickey-spillane.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Myster writer Mickey Spillane\u2019s Murrells Inlet house was completely destroyed by the storm.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Lou Krasky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We saw a now-rusted pot bellied stove, smashed Tiffany lamp, Mexican tile kitchen, which was now complete history, and an assessed $3,000 in stored groceries. In what had been Mickey\u2019s office an ashtray \u2014 not his \u2014 that blew in from somewhere said \u201cHome Sweet Home.\u201d An Ethan Allen chair somehow got used for kindling. Service for 12 left only one pewter salt shaker under a mound of mud.<\/p>\n<p>A year later Mickey rebuilt. He said: \u201cThe situation was unsolvable. We bulldozed and started over. Cost half a million just to tear it down and another million to rebuild. We started from scratch. Took nine months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new house, on stilts, has 100% structural integrity. Ten feet off the ground. Three stories. Concrete foundation. The underpinnings have enormous power. A whole level\u2019s underneath our first floor like a carport. We\u2019re up on hurricane ties, concrete steel posts deep into the ground up through the walls to the second story. Hurricane windows that can withstand tremendous winds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A woman standing near her home after it was damaged by Hurricane Hugo in Folly Beach, South Carolina.\" class=\"wp-image-24110911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A woman standing near her home after it was damaged by Hurricane Hugo in Folly Beach, South Carolina.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A street in Garden City Beach, South Carolina covered in debris after Hugo.\" class=\"wp-image-24110907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/hurricane-hugo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A street in Garden City Beach, South Carolina covered in debris after Hugo.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Bob Jordan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPine floors. Old-fashioned Victorian tub on an oak pedestal. New old-style pull-chain toilets. Worry won\u2019t put anything back. Jeez, I\u2019ve been through enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jehovah\u2019s Witness Mickey stayed cool. He sat me in remnants of a rocking chair and said, \u201cI\u2019m 71, gray. Lucky I still have hair. I can\u2019t spend what\u2019s left of my life worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Near a trusty antique Smith Corona typewriter on which he pecked out his best sellers, he found what he said was a 500 year old bottle of wine, poured it into a paper cup and said: \u201cHell, I\u2019m still doing OK for an old bastard.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Two partners on a train back from Florida. One suddenly jumped up, screaming, \u201cMy God! I left the safe open.\u201d The other partner shrugged and said, \u201cSo what\u2019re you worried about? 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