Editing Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (section)

===Hurricane Hugo and growth that followed===
On September 21, 1989, Mount Pleasant was hit by [[Hurricane Hugo]], a Category Four hurricane. While the town was spared from the worst of the storm (Category 4 conditions were suffered by areas further north of the city), the town and its neighboring [[barrier island]]s still had severe damage. Children who lived through the storm were featured in an early episode of [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Nick News]]'', along with children who lived through [[Hurricane Andrew]].

Development continued. A year after the storm, more people moved to the area, and the town had its most significant growth spurt. It increased from a population of roughly 23,000 in 1990 to one of roughly 47,000 in 2000.